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A66984 A sermon preached before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London at the Guild-Hall Chappel October 26, 1679 by Benjamin Woodroffe ... Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711. 1679 (1679) Wing W3468; ESTC R22688 16,210 38

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us do not most effectually carry on their work If the wicked our Enemies have bent the bow and made ready the arrow upon the string as 't is in the context are not they who promote these the men who have discharged it for them have shot out the others arrows in their bitter words Psal lxiv. 3. 'T was the complaint of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter xx verse 5. I have heard the defaming of many Fear on every side report say they and we will report I wish our Times did not furnish us with too many instances of this nature and that in those men who do not only as it there follows watch for but are ready to make the Halting of the Righteous Those whatever they say who strike at the very Foundations whose greatest Joy 't would be to see the Nation bereft of the Security of her Laws and the Comforts of her Religion Only I cannot but rejoice too as all good men must that in such Times as these wherein to be open and plaindealing to dare to love and vindicate Truth is to expose ones self to the Calumny of every Scurrilous Libeller I and all good men cannot but rejoice in our hearts I speak it to the Honour of this great and Royal City and the good and wise Government thereof that like what is given in the Character of the heavenly Jerusalem and may Jerusalem the City where they shall see Peace be always its name that I say like what is given in the Character of the heavenly Jerusalem you have made it your singular Care that whosoever loveth and maketh a lye barking snarling wretches as they are should be shut out with Dogs And may you Order against Hawkers Septemb. 7. 1679. See the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton's Speech Lord Mayor Elect and the Right Honourable Sir James Edwards Speech Septem 29. 1679. go on still to justifie your Authority the Authority of that Law which cannot but protect them who make it their Rule Never may those who have ill will at Zion be so prosperous as to see the day when you either want Power or Will to execute it Never may the Religion we profess and its Foundations be so far destroyed as to let Anarchy and Confusion be the badg of the Protestant No Let it be the Reproach and the single reproach of our Enemies that 't is only in throwing down Foundations that their Cause can prosper in Subverting all the Laws of God and Man all the Principles of true Christian Religion that they must ever hope to advance their Catholick Faith For what else is their unbounded Primacy of the Pope but the overthrowing all * Clerici legibus civilibus ut sunt Leges Principum non tenentur obligatione aliquâ correctivâ sed solum directivâ Non possunt tamen à Magistratu politico puniri nec ullo modo trahi ad Magistratus Secularis Tribunal Bellarm. de Cleric l. 1. A Clericis qui jure subjectionis exempti sunt propriè quidem Majestatem non laedi Eudaemon Jesuita Apolog. c. 34. p. 110. Clerici Rebellionem non esse crimen laesae Majestatis quia non est subditus Regi Zimanch Aphoris de Cons Juramentum Fidelitatis ne suscipi quidem posse à Papistis nostris sine Fidei Catholicae abnegatione Bellarm. Resp ad Apolog. pro juram Fidel. De Fide eertum esse quemcunque Principem Christianum si à Religione Catholicâ manifesto deflexerit alios avocare voluerit excidere statim omni potestate dignitate idque ante prolatam Papae sententiam posseque debere subditos si vires habeant istiusmodi Haereticum ex hominum Christianorum Dominatu ejicere Philopat Sect. 2. p. 109. Suarez in Libro de Censuris Disp 15. Sect. 6. p. 262. hath many things to the same sense Non licere Christianis tolerare Regem Haereticum si ille conetur subditos ad suam haeresin protrahere Bellarm de Rom. Pontif. 5. 7. Sed Christiani Principes qui diu in Ecclesiasticam potestatem tyrannico furore surrexerunt cui flectere genua caput submittere debuerant Nonne sacris Conciliis sunt depositi percussi Anathemate pulsi regno atque imperio Vt Ladistaus Leo III. Henricus III. Fredericus II. Constantinus VI. Conc. t. 14. p. 992. In Orat. Cornelii Episcopi Bitontini 1. Oportere Jesuitas in suo Generali ac multo magis in quovis Pontifice Romano non hominem erroribus obnoxium considerare sed ipsum Christum qui est sapientia Patris intueri atque horum vocem excipere non secus ac Christi ipsius qui nec decipi potest nec decipere 2. Debere eos apud animum suum statuere se moveri ac dirigi à divinâ voluntate providentiâ quoquoversus moventur ac di●iguntur à suo Superiore Maffeius in vita Loyolae l. 3. c. 7. Prudentiam esse solius Imperantis non autem Obedientis virtutem Sum. Constitut Jesuit Regul 36. In Colloquio Ratisbon Sess 9. p. 282. ●88 confidenter asserunt Jesuitae Populum ita subjectum esse Regimini Praepositorum suorum ut si illi in aliquo dubio definiendo errarint populus vi Regiminis errare simul posset imò deberet These as a few of those multitudes of Testimonies and Authorities which might be cited under this head he who desires more of the particulars shall need only to consult the Bull of Pius IV. Conc. Trident. p. 944 945 946. Con. t. 14. Anno 1564. where the Errors alluded to in this part of our continued discourse are with many others reckon'd up to our hand and confirm'd by the Pope as Articles of Faith and as such to be professed by every one therein concern'd Government in the World The wresting the Scepter out of the Princes hand which God Himself put there And giving such Laws and Rules of Obedience as are utterly inconsistent with all Civil Power And as if this were not enough wresting the Scepter out of Gods own hand too That greatest Royalty of his Crown to forgive sins by giving that absurd Licence and impunity to all manner of Transgressions which he were not God must forfeit the Holiness and Justice of the Divine Nature should he permit Again Is there any Prerogative of Heaven equal to the Infallibility they usurp Or can any thing reconcile the Infallibility they pretend to with the many Contradictions their Religion defends 'T would be no difficulty to demonstrate that they who so far depose Christ in his Kingly Office as to set up another in his stead to dispense with his Laws and give new Rules and measures of Obedience to his Subjects That they who so far evacuate his Prophetick Office as in fact at least to deny that he led his Apostles into all Truth as appears by their Doctrines concerning Civil Powers and submissions due to them according to which what was to be taught and allowed in their Times when the