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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30250	Another sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, November the fifth, 1641 by Cornelius Burges, D.D. ; wherein, among other things, are shewed a list of some of the popish traytors in England.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5668; ESTC R21418	55,204	69

an execution by fire not from heaven but from hell not by Apostles but by Apostats not upon Hereticks but upon sound Professors of his Truth not by Iames and John whom he dearly loved but upon Samaritans whom all Gods people had cause to hate but by Samaritans Priests and Jesuites Traitors and Rebells abhorred of God and man upon Iames Iohn very Pillars of the Church upon the Lords Annointed upon the Assembly of all the Estates of the Kingdom Sober Modern Papists thēselves are ashamed of this in behalf of those furious Ones of their own Party who cannot blush Nay I appeal from Garnet to Garnet from Garnet sleeping to Garnet waking from his sleeping Conscience consulted to approve it to his Conscience awakened when he was upon the Scaffold to be executed for it When the Question was first put to him by Catesby Whether it were lawfull in some Case to destroy the innocent with the guilty This Good a Widdrington ubi supra Father so soone as he apprehended the Conspirator to be in earnest peremptorily resolved that no doubt it was if the good comming by it might make compensation for the losse of their lives So that with him b Rom. 3.8 Let us doe evill that good may come thereof was good Doctrine though S. Paul disclaim'd it But when he came to die Conscience compelled him to change his note Then he confessed to a Noble c E. of Manch to whom Garnet confessed M●rtis sententiam justissimè in cum fuissè pronunciatam c. Lord yet living that for concealing this Treason the sentence of death was just upon him And being led to the side of the scaffold to satisfie the people hee as * Me in Regem peccasse confiteor quod mihi est de●ori quoad mali conscius fui scil in reticendo Et hoc nomine veniam a Regia Majestate supplex pe●o Machinatio contra Regem regnum sanguinolenta erat quamque si pe●acta fuisset ego ipse in imis sensibus toto animo de●esta●u●●s erum Dole● sane maxime peracerbe fe●o Catholicos tam atrox immanc facinus suscepisse Ibid. Widdrington reports him freely said I confesse I have offended against the King which is now my griefe in that I was guilty of this Treason in concealing of it for which I humbly crave pardon of his Majestie The Conspiracie against the King and Kingdome was bloody and had it been executed I my selfe should have abhorr'd it from the secrets of my heart and with all my soule And verily it is my greatest griefe and with much bitternesse I feele it that Catholikes undertooke such a cruell and outragious Villany And upon th Gallowes * Eosque adhorto ne ejusmodi proditionibus rebellionibus contra Regē se ●mmesceant ibid. inf●a hee exhorted all Catholikes that they would never more have hand in such Treasons and Rebellions against their Soveraigne Thus farre our first Vse the next is this Learne hence what to expect as from all wicked men in general so from all the brood that be Agents and Factors for Rome in particular whether Lay or Ecclesiastique r Never expect better from them Regular or Secular to the end of the world Surely no better than from the rageing Sea when it cannot rest Nothing but rage and wrath Conspiracie and crueltie Treason and Rebellion so often as power and opportunitie meet Whether q Prov. 29.9 they rage or laugh there is no rest s Mic. 7.2.3 c. They all lie in wait for blood they hunt every man his brother with a net that they may doe evill with both hands earnestly the Prince * Witnesseth Pope and other his Adherents asketh and the Iudge judgeth for reward and the Great man uttereth his mischievous desires so they wrap it up The best of them is a briar the most upright is sharper than a thorny hedge c. Therefore trust yee not in a friend put ye no confidence in a guid keep the doores of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosome if this way addicted What then should you listen to any of their Syrens songs for abrogation or mitigation of the Lawes made against them for toleration of their Religion or for trusting of them as some would perswade They are no Changelings Can the Ethiopian change his skinne or the Leopard his spots t Jer. 13.23 then may they also doe good that are accustomed to doe evill I urge this the rather at this time not only because the very Deliverance which wee this day celebrate rings loud in your cares neither to trust nor tolerate them any longer and strongly moves for a Ne admittas against them but because also even during this very Parliament you find the old spirit of rage and trechery walking too openly and boldly among them and too often pressing too neere upon you Let it not move you that now they are in a Petitioning veine and seem to Petition for some indulgence professing all Loyalty For just so they gave out while they were preparing their materialls for the Gun-powder Treason then they would Petition for a Toleration of Religion Comming they are to manage their Cause and means they have more than ordinary to advance their Party the more reason you should have a more vigilant eye and a more active hand over them to secure the King and the Royall Seed Religion your selves and the Kingdomes against all their machinations The better to quicken this Care in you I shall humbly leave with you these Foure Remembrancers First That they have never been quiet but continually contriving of Treasons ever since the Reformation of Religion Secondly That this practice is not from the Lawes made against them * See Discourse of the Powder-Treason in K. Iames his Works but their very Religion it selfe leades them unto it Thirdly That their Priests are bound to infuse these principles of their Religion into them and to presse the use of them upon all occasions Fourthly That to induce their Disciples to swallow those Principles and accordingly to act them when occasion serveth they propound great rewards and glory to such as shall attempt them and defend and magnifie those who have formerly miscarried in them Each of these I shall now make good unto you in order with some enlargement I. They have never rested from plotting of Treason since the Reformation 1. They have never been quiet but alwayes hammering and contriving or solliciting and driving on desperate Plotts and conspiracies to destroy their Sovereigne to abolish Religion to subvert the Lawes and to expose the Kingdoms to a prey of any forreigne Enemie that would lend them either aide or countenance ever since the happy Reformation of Religion in the glorious Reigne of Queen Elizabeth unto this very day It is not my purpose nor will it suit with the short limits of a Sermon to make a relation of the Treasons themselves