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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43562	Three sermons preached at the Collegiate Church in Manchester by Richard Heyricke.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1641 (1641)	Wing H1751; ESTC R27425	61,652	202

in the Temple of God as God and exalts himselfe above all that 's called God above all Kings and Princes to whom God imparts some part of his power and name above all Synods and Councells yea he shewes himselfe as God for he advances himselfe above God he will dispense with the morall Law blesse where GOD doth curse and curse where God doth blesse no Law nothing shall binde him this wicked one called so verse the eight the Greeke word signifies properly this lawlesse one for so indeed the Pope is a lawlesse person whom no law of God nor man is able to bind he dispenseth with solemne oathes the surest tye betwixt man and man that exact and well composed oath of Allegiance they make it a Sampsons Cord To hold the Pope to bee the head of the Church is more incongruous and improper more blasphemous and derogatory against Christ then if a man should make an excellent Image of exquisite and exact forme delineated in all the points to the life with necke and shoulders with armes and hands with thighes and legges and should place thereon a Gorgons head of an hideous and monstrous shape That Image in Daniel was more uniforme that had a head of gould breast and armes of silver belly and thighes of brasse legges of Iron and feete part of Iron and part of Clay then to have the legges and thighes of Gold and the head of Clay This is so hereticall and damnable that whosoever holds it must necessarily bee a Heretick Infidell and Atheist Thirdly Papists are in continuall danger of temporall destruction The Popes Parasites Romes builders give the same glorious titles Attributes and Eulogium to the City of Rome that once the Prophets of God did to Ierusalem calling it the Holy City the City of the great King the joy of the whole earth the Queene of Nations the everlasting the eternall Citie and yet Rome must downe Babylon shall fall the spirit of God speakes plaine enough reade the whole eighteenth of the Revelations at your leisure hee that reades it may understand for the Text you see is plaine enough it must downe Rome must downe by the sword Popery must downe by the word Rome first Popery after Those ten Kings that cleave unto her shall at the last make War against her Rome shall down Popery shall loose it's strength though not it's being till the comming of Christ I will not determine the set time when Rome shall downe I have read the Conjectures of many yet all agree the time cannot be long but Rome must downe At the first comming of our Saviour Christ when there was a generall expectation of him the Iewes did not know the particular time the yeare the moneth the day there is at this day in the Church of God a generall expectation of some change though wee cannot particularly tell the time the yeare the month the day it may be the time is now at hand the Trumpet is sounding to battaile it may bee present with our selves of uncertaine things wee can speake but uncertainly I subscribe to them rather that conceive the yeare to bee one thousand sixe hundred sixtie and sixe though upon other grounds t is plaine Satan shall bee tyed up a 1000 yeares sixe hundred sixty sixe yeares is the number of the Beast Antichrist shall so long reigne these two together make the just number besides looke into the Latin Alphabet the tongue that Rome useth and the numerall letters make up this number But this wee can certainely say Rome must downe Rome shall fall Rome in the Revelation is set downe by the name of Sodom Gomorrah and spirituall Ierusalem Rome equalls their sins and shall beare their plagues God calls his people to come out of her that they bee not partakers of her sinnes and of her plagues Rome must fall and Papists are in continuall danger of temporall destruction Lastly all Papists in that sense that I say Papists are sure of eternall damnation I may not speake peace where God speakes no Peace When Iehoram said to Iehu what peace Iehu he answered what peace as long as the witchcrafts and whoredomes of thy mother Iesabell remaine What peace can I speake to Rome while the spirituall whoredomes and witchcrafts of the Church of Rome remaine among them Saul lost his kingdome for sparing Agag And God may damme me for ought I know if I refuse to damne them They are but false Prophets Balaam-like that blesse where God doth curse God preaches damnation to them I may not preach salvation In the third verse of this Chapter Antichrist the man of sinne is called the sonne of perdition and he is so indeed both actively and passively he is damned himselfe and is the cause of the damnation of others The spirit is plaine in the 10 11 and 12. verses hee shall work in them that perish and for this cause God gave them up to strong delusions to believe lyes that all that receive not the truth in the love of the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse might be damned See in the twentieth of the Revelations and the tenth verse what the end of them is where all they must goe into the lake that burnes with Fire and Brimstone They that write professedly of this question whether a Papist can be saved or no distinguish of times places and persons first of times since the Reformation and before the Reformation at those times of ignorance God did connive Then men would have seen and could not the Sun did not then shine our fore-fathers might bee saved in that Ignorance But God commands every one to seeke after knowledge the Sun shines cleere enough Papists may see and will not God gives them over to affected ignorance he that will be ignorant let him be ignorant Againe they distinguish of places where the light of the Gospell hath shined and where it hath not shined in some places the Gospell shines very bright and very cleere as in some parts of France and Germany and blessed be God in England In some places is darknesse they have the word rarely preached to them God will not be mercifull to those Papists where the light of the Gospell shines as cleare as may be and yet they remaine in darknesse Lastly they distinguish of persons It 's confest of all that a learned English Apostate Papist cannot be saved God hath preach'd damnation to them so must we Now you see the danger of being Papists they are Traitors to the King under whom they live Hereticks Infidels and Atheists in continuall danger of temporall destruction and at last sure of eternall damnation And you see the first Reason why we should stand fast because there wil be an Apostacy a falling away to Popery the second followes more briefly Secondly Therefore stand fast because of Gods great mercy in bringing the Gospell among you as the Apostle inferres this exhortation from the thirteene and foureteene verses those immediately before the Text

they may bee excommunicated deposed and deprived and experience showes it necessarily followes they must be murdered The same Bellarmine in his fift booke sixth chapter speakes out The Pope may change kingdomes and take them from one and give them to another and gives this Reason else saith hee Kings may pervert their people experience shewing that as the King is so is the kingdome Instancing in Ieroboam Constantine Constance Iulian King Henry the eight King Edward the sixt Queene Mary Queene Elizabeth All whose kingdomes changed with their Kings He affirmes this to bee a Catholike Doctrine and to prove it brings in the Verdict of Twenty Italians foureteene French nine Germans seaven English and Scots nineteene Spaniards all these prime Authors yea the Priests and Iesuites the great fomentors of those damnable Treasons against Queene Elizabeth give up father Bellarmine for their chiefest authority for their Oracle you see Bellarmine speakes plaine he saith enough yet not all I must tell you Bellarmine is modest to others that come after him though he saith somewhat yet they much more He maintained indeed against Aquinas that Kings are not to be murdered though they are Hereticks except they labour to make their people so too and maintaines against others that except the Pope have excommunicated and accursed them subjects are not to rise against their King But others Mariana and the rest of that blacke Guard speake out people are to rise against their King and though the Pope neglects his duty they are not to neglect theirs hee advises rather to poyson their chaire Incarnate devils yea the very vow that the Iesuites take will necessarily inferre this consequence therfore it 's not the opinion of a few alone but the whole order must avouch it I will not say every Iesuite and Papist de facto is not loyall and dutifull to their Prince I will say all their Loyalty depends on the Popes pleasure And what a rotten thread this is to hang so sharpe a pointed sword in over the head of Kings what loyall heart doth not tremble to thinke of it After a solemne profession that they beleeve the Popes absolute authority over all as the Vicar of Christ they make this vow to doe whatsoever the Pope or the Generall of the order shall command them immediately without any Tergiversation disputation or excuse at all and to goe wheresoever he shall command them whether to the Turks Infidels and Indians or Hereticks and Schismaticks among the Christians yea they are bound to beleeve that no error impiety injustice can come from the Pope but that all is Religion Zeale Devotion Equity and Truth My Brethren doe not these men commit themselves soule and body to the Pope doe not they give themselves not to beleeve their owne sences their owne Reason Iudgment and understanding And doe they not vow to goe to come to doe to say to execute upon all persons and against all persons whatsoever he shall command them and if this be true what hope what safety what meanes of refuge have Christian Kings and Princes but the Popes pleasure when these the slaves of the Pope for so the Iesuites call themselves which care not for their owne lives bee masters of the Kings And yet saith Bellarmine was it ever heard or read or did the Pope approve the fact after it was done if the Pope doth not allow of the killing of Kings and Princes wherfore I pray you doth he not set some severe Censure and with a fearefull frowne cry downe those Iesuiticall bookes of Mariana and the rest that not only approves but commends King-killing service Wherefore doth his holinesse suffer at Rome even under his nose those Iesuites that had the chiefest hand in Treasons to be pictured in Bookes like Martyrs and superstitious worship by the common people to bee done to them And those two Kings in France both murdered by Iesuites why did not his holinesse testifie to the Christian world his apprehension of so great misfortune which all Europe had cause to lament why hath not his holines made a Law and a decree against killing of Kings and Princes whereby they may enjoy more safety Let not words be credited when deeds speake so lowd King Iames in his answer to this fla●●ting lye brings a full Iury of witnesses And Bellarmine himselfe in his eight Chapter twelve severall examples to prove the lawfulnesse that Kings may be deposed by the people I will keep at home and only tell you how the Pope proceeded against our King Iohn Queene Elizabeth King Iames Innocentius the first hee first interdicted the kingdome excommunicated the King cursed his person animated his subjects against him gave his kingdome to the King of France at last when the King somewhat relented and submitted to him he forced him to resigne his Crowne and kingdome to Pandolphus his Legate who kept it three dayes and after gave it him and made him tributary for his own kingdome That Bull of Pope Clement sent out against Queene Elizabeth is infamously and notoriously knowne whereby after much railing and blaspheming of her sacred person hee curses all that adhere unto her This Bull he sends into England fastened it on one of Saint Pauls Gates Saunders in his writings maintained it Bristow in his Motives approved it some of the Nobility and many of the Gentry were said to execute it From this fountaine all those bitter streames of cursed water flowed out damnable Treasons against her person But to passe all other the Treason intended this day speakes loud enough occasioned by Popish Religion attempted by Popish Catholikes encouraged by Popish Doctors maintained and blessed by the Pope himselfe I say the Pope himselfe for when father Garnet desired to know the Popes Resolution concerning the bloudy Tragedy Catesby presently resolved him The Pope saith hee that commanded our endeavours to hinder his comming in is willing enough wee should throw him out I know this Anniversary remembrance of this great deliverance troubles the hearts of tender Iesuites and Papists some in Print condemne it and say that the treason of the Powder Traitors ought to bee buryed in the grave of the offendors and not to be imputed to their Religion some impudently now begin to deny it and some with blacke mouthes labour to fasten it on the Puritans God rebuke them T is no new thing my brethren to disavow that which took no effect But had this damnable Treason beene executed it would not have wanted Patrons highly to have maintained it When that Parricide killed Henry the third King of France did not the Pope in full consistory of his Cardinalls make a glorious relation of it comparing the Asacinat to Eleazar and Iudeth forbidding all Masses and dirges to bee said for the soule of the King Is not his picture compleately set up in the Iesuites Colledge over the Altar with Angels protecting and crowning him I could at large relate the manner of the Iesuites proceedings how they raise the