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A43562
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Three sermons preached at the Collegiate Church in Manchester by Richard Heyricke.
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Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.
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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
league no covenants no mariages with them and there 's a morall Reason annexed that concernes us as much as them for they will turne you away from following mee And there you see what GOD charges them To cut downe their groves breake downe their Images and the like I cannot but commend herein the policie of our Adversaries of the Church of Rome That will not suffer one Lutheran nor Calvinist nor any of the reformed Religion to be within their power but upon the least suspition he must into the Inquisition What 's the reason that the Pope will not dispense in Spaine or Italy if a Papist marry a Protestant and yet here they will dispense with them I pitty those that have Papists lying in their bosomes those Children that have popish Parents those servants that have popish Masters those Tenants that have Popish Land-lords those poore neighbours that have great Popish friends Beloved stand fast have nothing to doe with Popery in any kinde whatsoever Thirdly read none of their books trust none of their miracles beleeve none of their Legend preserve none of their Relickes keepe none of their Images You may see what a strict charge God gives the Nazarites he forbids them wine that they should drinke nothing that comes of the Vine The best of the Kings of Iudah are branded for leaving the groves in the beginning of Reformation when the King seized upon the Abbies and Monasteries it was both policy and wisdome in time not onely to seize upon their goods but to demolish their houses to ruine their buildings to lay desolate their places for Ziim and Ohim had they continued those Locusts and Frogges would have filled their places againe In Italy and Spaine there is not one Booke of Protestant writers suffered among them they have their Index Expurgatorius to wipe out what ever may savour of true Religion Nay as a wise and learned Traveller saith the books of Bellarmine are very rare to bee found among them because hee quotes the Arguments of the Protestants in them learne wisedome from them have nothing to doe with what they have Fourthly pray mightily to GOD that God will uphold and strengthen you with the right hand of his power that you may stand fast CHRIST tells Peter hee prayed for him that his faith might not at all faile If CHRIST prayed for Peter Lord what great need have we to pray for our selves that our faith may not faile you may Beloved bee tempted yet above your strength there may yet come a time of tryall and an houre of temptation you have not yet resisted unto bloud yet you have lived in a land of peace and safety you have not beene scar'd with the barking of Vncouth Wolves Priests and Iesuites have been banisht from among us and long may they be banisht once they were banisht from France thither they returned againe the times may come about so that they may returne to us againe O you that would stand fast pray pray mightily to God Barnabas was drawne away for ought I know the temptation may be so great that we may be drawne away Then do as IEHOSAPHAT did when that great Army came against him cry mightily to GOD that you may stand fast Lastly would you stand fast Receive the truth in the Love of it Because they would not receive the truth in the love of it God gave them up to strong delusions I say receive the truth in the love of it You heare many Sermons you have the book of God in your hand much peaching It is not enough to have the word of God in your heads but you must have it in your hearts We read of the Fathers that they received the promise afarre of the word is emphaticall they leapt at the promise received it with great Ioy O let the word sinke deep into your hearts be well grounded in Religion It is better there then swimming in the braine many poore ignorant men by this have kept close to the truth when many great Schollers have proved Apostates receive the truth in the love of it Thus much for the duty have patience for one word of exhortation Must we stand fast to the Gospell that we be not drawne away to Popepery suffer men and Brethren a word of Exhortation You that are Magistrates of the Land you that are Ministers yea all the people of God Among other Reasons some give this Reason for one why Samuel went throughout the Land every yeare in circuit to see if he could find out any Idols of the Gentiles that they had hid or any graven Image or carved worke Our Iudges in their Courts and Bishops in their Visitations give in charge for diligent inquiry what Recusant Papists or popishly affected there are We have singular excellent good lawes for the preservation of the puritie of Religion and to keepe under Popery whence then is it men and brethren that Popery so far prevailes this day that Popery so much increases among us I beseech you that are arm'd with Authority go to the utmost of your authority you that have power to punish punish to indict indict to present present let not Papists rest in peace in safety in security by you If the chiefest and greatest men of a Parish bee Papists their children their servants their attendants their Tenants their poore neighbours their rich kinred and friends are all in danger by them My Lord will have his followers aswell of his vices as of his person If hee leaves his friend at the Church-doore hee turnes not backe without his Attendants If his honour please to bee Idolatrous they will waite on him to Masse You that keepe backe the sword from doing justice when God calls for it you may your selves dye by the sword of God and the bloud of all that Parish through your neglect shall lye upon your heads Crudelitas pro Christo pietas est cruelty for Christ is godlinesse You to whom the sword of the spirit is committed draw forth that sword Lift up your voyce like a Trumpet Cry aloud and spare not Tell the Papists of their transgressions and the Church of Rome of her Abominations Warn the People of God to flye from them least they be partakers of their sinnes and of their plagues Exhort them to stand fast to the Gospell already received discover the nakednesse of the one and shew the beauty of the other The Angell of the Church of Ephesus is commended for his labour and patience and for that hee could not beare with them that were evill but tryed them that said they were Apostles and were not and hated the Nicolaitans which GOD also hates Let this bee our Crowne and our Glory that if any perish they perish not through our default O let not false Shepheards theeves and wolves bee more painefull Let not Iesuites compasse Sea and Land to make one Proselyte of their owne Religion which when they have done they make him seavenfold more