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A77848	Romes cruelty & apostacie: declared in a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1644. Before the Honourable House of Commons. By Anthony Burgess, pastour of Sutton Coldfield; a Member of the Assembly.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5655; Thomason E19_16; ESTC R12627	13,497	28

this might not be pressed There was a law that no body should eate of this honey but since God raised up you Honourable Patriots Truth like Sampson hath broke all the cords she was tyed in Obs 2. That Romes corrupt wayes are accompanyed with bloudy cruelties I will begin with the last first and shew they are bloudy partly doctrinally and partly practically Doctrinally in these Positions 1. In maintaining the Popes power over all temporall Kingdomes for the Pope like the divell will shew all the glory of a kingdome and give it to some creature of his if he will continue to worship him and how bloudy this principle hath been all that reade histories know It is true Bellarmine useth many distinctions in the asserting of this power for the Jesuites in all their controversies strive who shall shew the most subtilty as Apelles and an other Painter contended who should draw the smallest line But as for other Authors they maintained this power of the Popes more boldly and more ignorantly How learned was that argument because it 's said In principio not principiis in the beginning not the beginnings therefore there was but one supreme power and that was the Popes 2. That an heretique for heresie sake and in point of Conscience though he doe not trouble the state ought to be put to death this also makes to the effusion of much bloud There are in this controversie two extreames the Papists on one side who are for corporall death and the cruell burning of those who dissent from their Church Qui haereticos occidendos negant de seipsis solliciti sunt saith Maldonat And the other of the Socinians who would have no outward forcible restraining of any error though never so grosse and pernicious certainly the Magistrate is so to walke that he be neither guilty of remissenesse and want of zeale nor yet of unwarrantable severity Meisnor doth well distinguish between haereticus simplex and haereticus seditiosus ac blasphemus these last he saith may be punished with capitall punishments but the Pope and his complices hold otherwise For when they have anathematiz'd a nation or people ne bruta essent fulmina they inflame kings and provoke them to destroy all with sword and fire Thus cum solitudinem fecerunt pacem appellant they call an utter desolation peace And this further makes their opinion bloudy that they will judge what heresie is How much bloud in France Germany and other parts hath this doctrine shed 3. That no publike faith or promise is to be kept with such heretiques As if Christiana fides and punica were all one Who hath not read of the sad Covenant-breach with Iohn Huss by the Emperour Sigismund being provoked thereunto by the Papists and Ioannes de Roma a Priest said that in the destruction of the Lutherans Judges were not bound to follow law or reason But how contrary is this to Scripture we have a fearfull instance in the Prophet Ezekiel of Zedekiah the King who brake his faith with the king of Babylon how doth God take notice of this sin especially and punish him for it Yea did not the Heathens by the Moon-light of nature see this and therefore how much admired is that Romane who kept his faith with Carthage though he knew it would be his desperate ruine And did not God punish Sauls posterity for the breach of his Covenant with the Gibeonites though it was deceitfully obtained How true doe they make that old proverbe Men play with oaths as children with shels 4. That mentall Reservations and Equivocations are lawfull This also must needs overthrow state constitutions though adamantine for seeing that truth and words they are the sinewes and ligaments of the body politicke if these be cut and dissolved how can the body stand What delusions of Magistrates What evasions of righteous judgements What insnaring of innocent men what doubling in oathes will there be by this meanes How can an oath be an end of a controversie if this be allowed O ye holy Martyrs lay aside your glorious Robes of immortality you died like fooles and were guilty of your owne bloud when as you might have denyed and forsworne all by mentall Reservations Aquinas saith well That an oath is for practicals what first Principles are for speculatives and as any conclusion will easily be granted which shineth by the light of the first principles so that fact must be submitted to which is confirmed by an oath But by this doctrine first Principles in societies are quite extinguished It is true there are some Papists that doe write against these Jesuiticall assertions but they are not considerable nor doth the Pope of Rome looke upon such as his abettors How doth the morall honesty of Heathens exceed their piety for Tully doth relate among the examples malae fidei that fact of a souldier prisoner who by Hannibals permission had leave to goe out upon his oath that he would returne againe and he returneth presently pretending he had forgot something and so by this thought himselfe freed from his oath 5. That there is an absolute necessity of concealing all things revealed in auricular Confession and this doctrine hath been a private backway to let in horrible conspiracies and murders Nullum tantum malum esse potest cujus vitandi causa confessionem prodere liceat and Bellarmine praiseth Garnet that would not reveale this Gun-powder treason because forsooth confession as they say is De jure Divino and temporall authority de jure humano leviori damno reges omnes quotquot sunt occiderentur quam vel una confessio revelaretur Casaubon saith this was a Jesuites speech to him I wonder whether they would hide it if there were a conspiracie to kill the Pope Thus you see how all their opinions are with Dracoes written in bloud But there was one Jesuite escaped well in this matter of Confession his name was father Aubigney who in the bloudy fact of Ravilliack being called in question and demanded what was revealed to him He replyed this answer that God had given him this grace that whatsoever was told him in Confession he presently by a miracle forgot it and for all the world could not remember it againe I thinke if this answer saved him it was the best grace ever God bestowed on him 6. That the Clergie are exempted from subjection and so cannot be guilty of treasonable practises Clerici rebellio in regem non est crimen laesae Majestatis quia non est subditus regi and if so what wickednesse may be committed by them without any controll That same distinction of Clergie and Laity though it hath been used well enough in an Ecclesiastique sense for distinction sake yet in the popish way is very detestable for hereby they hold themselves so the inheritance and portion of God that they are exempt from all jurisdiction and I know not how many temporall governours have given way too much hereunto now doth not this assertion

〈◊〉 that so both parties might agree But what became of this a great fire was raised hereupon which made Hosius a grave man that yeelded in that Synod to grieve because he had betrayed the truth 2. A Socinian moderation And this is indeed rather a cursed Academicall and scepticall unbeliefe in fundamentall things then moderation That what the Schoolemen doe in many Schoole and abstruse questions the same they doe in substantials and essentials videtur quod sic videtur quod non and prout nobis nunc videtur these will put a fortasse and salvo meliorum judicio upon received Principles of Faith and it s observed that they would make a Declaration sententiae eorum of their judgement and opinion not fidei in maine things of Religion 3. A state politique Moderation That is also when we bring down Scripture and the Commands of Christ to state considerations This hath been fatall to Reformers and all this ariseth because they doe not thinke by faith that Christ is able to save the ship they are in when the waves and tempests doe arise was not this the destruction of Ieroboam and hath not the Lord been severe in punishing even little neglects in his worship 4. A Christian Moderation which is to be seen in a toleration and forbearing of the weake in some opinions and in an accommodation of diffenting brethren so farre as truth and the peace of a Kingdome will beare Let there be a considering of one another so farre that the prevailing party may not violently urge an uniforme obedience nor the oppressed party an unlawfull liberty It is but a trifle comparatively that I shall instance in yet Tully was applauded in it when two great Oratours quarrelled about tertio Consul and tertium Consul which was best Latine and calling upon Tully to judge he decideth it thus by wishing them to write the halfe word onely tert Consul and so both parties might quickly agree In wounds its better to close and heale rather then widen especially when there is a common enemy to destroy both And this made the Orthodox when they were afraid the true faith would be subverted by the Arrians who were potent and numerous to joyne with the Novatians who agreed with them in the Deity of Christ although dissenting from them in matters about Baptisme and this concord proved successefull I know the question of tolerating men dissenting in Religion is a vast ocean and many learned men have writ of it both Papists and Protestants yet I observe those that are sound and judicious especially when they come to speake of punishments for their errours to incline in mitiorem partem Although indeed the Magistrate is herein to deport himselfe so that he be neither guilty of sinfull remisnesse on one side or unlawfull severity on the other Use of Thankfulnesse that we are as this day delivered from Popery and all their cruell attempts I will conclude all that if Popery be thus cruell thus Idolalitricall let us with hearts and tongues give God the Glory That you are a Parliament that we have our houses our states our Religion Let us blesse God for this dayes mercies Abraham received Isaac from the grave as dead so doe you all your mercies temporall and spirituall especially having so many deliverances and victories vouchsafed by God to your Armies You have many fifths of November in this one day and every time you have a victory it is a deliverance from a Gun-powder plot before it was secret and now it is open FINIS Die Martis 6. Novemb. 1644. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Mr Nicoll and Mr Ashhurst do from this House give thankes to Mr Burgess for the great paines he took in his Sermon on the Fifth of November at the intreaty of the said Commons at Margarets Westminster and to desire him to print his Sermon and it is ordered That none shall presume to print his Sermon but whom the said Mr Burgess shall authorize under his hand-writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. ANTHONY BURGESS I appoint Tho. Vnderhill to print my Sermon