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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76450	An epistle directed to all iustices of peace in England and Wales.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1642 (1642)	Wing B2025A; Thomason E133_12; ESTC R19844	8,211	18

attempt for the advancement of his triple infernall crowne Fifthly hee that with wilfull inlargement of conscience and secret sturdie resolution takes the oath will easily and naturally grow revengefully inraged against the righteous Torturers and conformers of his corrupt and exorbitant conscience The conscience receiving a sting transfuseth the smart into the affections Which when they feele they are presently furiously inraged against the occasioners of that their bitter misery And therefore I am perswaded such a fellow so taking the Oath howsoever he may beare himselfe reservedly is afterwards transported with more violent and implacable spite against the power of that truth and patrons of that profession a sacred zeale whereof hath justly brought a racke and vexation upon his misguided conscience then he was before And assuredly if the times should turne which God forbid wee should finde the Church-Papist and the politicke conformable Pseudo-Catholicke more mercilesse blood thirsty against us then the Recusant Though the best of them no doubt at that day would be as a Brier and sharper then a thornie hedge nay even as a woolfe in the evening For there is no malice neere unto the malice of Popery save the malice of Hell Vpon these grounds also I have thought that as the state of a Church-Papist obstinated in popery is most damnable in it selfe even the popish Doctours themselves being witnesses as I have proved elsewhere see my book of legall repentance p. 59. so it is most dangerous to the State I speake not this to drive or detaine any Papist from the Church for I pronounce unto him out of the word of life and truth hee must flie out of Babylon into Sion if ever hee will save his soule but to let him know that comming to our congregation he ought with humility reverence and prayer to submit his understanding to illumination with truth and his heart to sanctification with grace both for the procurement and comfort of his owne salvation and the contentment and safety of the State Otherwise as his dangerousnesse to the State is evident and extraordinary so his owne damnation sleepeth not For if popery were truth as it is not but the very doctrine of Divels yet his State is damnable because he should so deny Christ before men if it be false as indeed it is and most accursed from heaven then hee justly perisheth in his heresie But it may be some will here reply what can possibly be more required and exacted from these men then conformity in outward obedience to the State what better security or surer bond can be thought upon then an oath the sacred and soveraigne instrument of all justice and obedience amongst men what further invention of State shall be able to stay the fearefull mischiefes that hang hourely over our heads from this malicious and murtherous generation I answere none in the world while they stay amongst us not the most exquisite and quintessenticall policy of all the wisest States that lie under the face of the Sunne can affoord helpe in this case I dolatry is ever attended with this inseparable curse that it will plague the kingdome that nourisheth it and pay it home at length with a witnesse except some right round and resolute course betaken in the meane time for the rooting of it out And indeed the depthes of the mistery of iniquity are so unfathomable that they cannot be sounded by the Plummet of any honest and Christian policy without diving into the bottome of Hell It is a right just and holy thing to give them the oath and to bring them to the Church But their violations of oathes dispensations equivocations mentall evasions corruptions of conscience and execrable transgressions of all lawes both of God and man of nations and nature are so infinite and endlesse and they so mingle their conclusions of State with the very confusions of hell that it is even in proportion as easie to chaine up those damned spirits from tempting men upon earth as to bridle those blood-thirsty monsters from undermining and overturning those States which professe the truth of Christ if power and meanes were answerable to their malice and revengefull humours K. Iames It was a royall providence of our gracious Soveraigne in his first speech in the Parliament to admonish the Papists that they would not so farre presume upon his Lenity as thereupon to thinke it lawfull for them daily to increase their number and strength in this Kingdome whereby if not in his time yet least in time of his posterity they might be in hope to erect their religion againe But it is more then manifest by daily and woefull experience that their maine end all their plots practis●s strange insolencies the whole spheare of a world of Papist that swarme amongst us hold a strong opposition and counter-motion to that gratious counsell and first motion of his Majestie A blessed and happie thing had it beene had his Princely pleasure beene followed in that point For assuredly were we rid of the Papists and were Idolatry banished out of the Kingdome as in conscience and policie reason and religion it ought the King and his posterity by the mercies of God might sit upon the throne of England as fast as the strong and mighty mountaines upon their sure foundations Oh then would the forraigne mint and forge of popish mischiefe discontinue and expire Iesuites the devills Iourneymen would take breath from hammering any more their hellish powder-plots in hast That malicious and murthering generation would grow dishartened and unspirited for matter of project and conspiracie against this noble State The royall person of the King would have none about it but Angels and good subjects The concurrent furie of the greatest enemies in the world durst not entertaine a thought of invasion or stirre a finger against the unconquerable glory of our peace For certainely the crowne of this kingdome is incircled and surrounded with such infinite and endlesse variety of popish insidiations and stands farre more liable to the furious thirst of forraigne ambitions upon this ground principally because they hope when time serves to finde amongst us a side and faction of Papists to serve their turne Cut the thread of this hope and cut the throat of all plots against the Kings person and crush the Popes heart for any probability or possibility of ever re-establishing and erecting his accursed tyrannie in this Iland againe Now this blessed businesse of most important and highest consequence for the pleasing of God security of the State and preservation of his Religion and royall seed that now fits with incomparable glory upon the Throne would bee happily furthered First if lawes worthily provided in such cases might have their course and current without opposition diversion partiality interception by false friends or any cunning defraudations and delusions of the holy intentions thereof Secondly if on our side there were but halfe the care and conscience for the maintenance of Christs truth