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A90061	The craft and cruelty of the churches adversaries, discovered in a sermon preached at St. Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. Novemb. 5, 1642. By Mathew Newcomen, minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing N907; Thomason E128_1; ESTC R18223	52,376	80

greater then in other places of the Kingdom and are like to continue still For though I hope it is not in the purposes of God to destroy England nor to destroy London yet I have thought sometimes The purpose and intent of God hath beene to humble and attenuate London and England For Englands long continued peace had abundantly increased Englands wealth and the abundant creased of Englands wealth had proportionably increased Englands pride The age before us knew not that excesse of bravery in clothes and utensils that we were growne unto And the generation growing up was like to exceed us in both God saw us labour so dangerously of a plethory as his wisdome and love judged it needfull to abate and exhaust our fulnesse at least so much as is super fluous and not matter of subsistence but matter of pride unto us which if we can willingly and chearefully resigne up to the disposall of God we may possibly thereby obtaine and secure our lives Lawes Religion the things that are or should be dearest to us But if we hugge our wealth when God would have us let it goe Take heed we lose not that and all the rest Me thinkes I reade it in the footsteppes of God towards England God hath said I will abate the wealth and pride of England Me thinkes the succession of these three warres within these few yeares which comes not without the speciall providence of that God who ruleth in the kingdomes of men the expences of all which must lye upon England speaks it That the purpose of God is to abate the pride and wealth of England And me thinkes we should say as Mephibosheth did 2 Sam. 19.30 Yea let him take all for as much as my Lord the King is returned againe in peace to his owne house might we but see our Soveraigne Lord the King brought in peace againe to his owne house and to His Houses of Parliament Might we but see the King of Kings upon his holy hill of Zion Christ in his beauty on his Throne The Church reformed truth and peace established let him take all I perswade my selfe every honest heart that is loyall to God to the King to the publicke weale would willingly speake it and seale it did not our adversaries by their crafty insinuations indeavour to divide as much between the Parliament and people as they have done betweene the King and Parliament That would faine perswade the people of this Nation with the Ape in the emblem to cut in under the arme of the tree whereon they sit and plunge themselves into a gulph and sea of misery To this purpose as they have tolde his Majestie so now they tell the people That the Parliament will alter Religion A charge like that of Rabshakeh against Hezekiah and as true When he would perswade the people God would not helpe them because Hezekiah had altered Religion Isaias 36.7 If thou say to me we trust in the Lord our God is it not he whose Altars high places Hezekiah hath taken away sayd to Iudah and Ierusalem you shall worship before this altar Truth is This is all the alteration of Religion the Parliament hath made They have taken away the high places and Altars that they have done intended to proceed to command all worship to be according to the rule of Gods word To say to England you shall worship according to this rule And this is he great crime of altering Religion My brethren be not deceived ●●●e●●tio Perse●riva o●ruptiva As in naturall so in civill and morall things there is a double alteration There is a perfective alteration And there is a corruptive alteration To alter Religion so as to corrupt Religion was the plot and work of the Popish Prelats and their faction To alter their alterations to antiquate their innovations to reduce Religion to its pure originall perfection which cannot be done without alteration of some thing introduced that was the purpose and work of the Parliament and for this it is our adversaries crie against them They will alter Religion I but then the Parliament will alter the government of the Kingdome Yes Just like as they altered Religion As in Religion such alterations as tend Ad perfectionem are not to be condemned So likewise in Polity and civill government Plato tells us That in all Common-wealths upon just grounds there ought to be some changes And that Statesmen therein must beehave themselves like ski●f●●l Musicians Qui artem Musices non mutant sed Musices modum But they do things without his Majesties consent I that is our greif and our adversaries triumph That our adversaries have so farre prevailed upon the heart of our soveraign as to perswade him to with draw first his presence then his assent from the great Councell of his Kingdome And thereby force them Either to do things without the consent of our soveraign Or else do nothing but sit still and expect their owne the Kingdomes ruine And in such a case is it so high acrime to determine things necessary for the safety of King and Kingdome without consent of his Majestie when it cannot be obtained I have read that the Persian Monarches were wont to call the Peers and Presidents of their Provinces to Councell but giving them no freedome nor liberty of Councell For every one of them had 〈◊〉 plate or tile of gold to stand upon in the Councell house and if he gave councell that the King thought well of Kecker Polit. the plate of gold was given him for a reward but if he delivered any thing contrary to the Kings minde Valer. Maxim l. 9. c. 5. Flagris caedebatur And one writes that Xerxes in his expedition against Greece called his Princes together and spake to them to this purpose Least saith he I should seeme to follow only my owne Councell I have assembled you and now do you remember that it becomes you rather to obey then advise Our adversaries would faine have it so with the Peers and Parliament of England and have a long time bin labouring to perswade his Majestie it ought so to be and would make the like impression upon the people now But you my brethren beware of their insinuations and know That they that devide between his Majestie and Parliament or between Parliament and people are the greatest enemies of King people and Parliament This is the first time that ever loyalty to the King was set in opposition to fidelity to the Parliament The first time that ever it was thought possible to draw the English Nation to desert their Parliament under the notion of adhering to their King Oh let not this age beare the date of such infamy Did ever Parliament do more for the Lawes and liberties of the Nation with more danger and detriment to themselves And will you when they have need of you leave them well here is our comfort God hath not left God will not leave his cause 1. Kings 8.57.58.59.60 his work his people 1. Kings 8. The Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers let him not leave us nor forsake us that he may encline our hearts unto him to walke in all his wayes and to keep his commandements and his Statutes and his Iudgements He even he maintaine the cause of his servants and of his people Israël at all times as the Matter shall require that all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is none else FINIS

your severall Remonstrances have made them known yet give me leave to informe the rest of our brethren a little of them Our adversaries in Ireland have bin plotting their present rebellion these seaventeen yeares as some have deposed See the Fri●sh Remonstrance These seaventeen yeares they have bin making fireworks and laying traines for the kindling of that combustion which now devoures that miserable Kingdome And what have our adversaries bin doing here the meane while Think you nothing Whence then proceeded those long intermissions of Parliaments that we began to feare our Parliaments would prove like those Roman solemnities Ludi seculares Alexan. Gen. Dier li. 6. c. 18 Quos nemo mortalium vidit unquam nec visurus est Which no man lived to see twice being held but once in a hundred yeares Whence came the immature dissolutions of so many Parliaments but from the plots of these our adversaries He that knowes not where the strength of England lies may learn of Englands enemies For as the Philistins when they knew that Samsons strength lay in his haire plotted to cut off that and then they easily bound him put out his eyes and made him grinde in their mill So our adversaries knowing our strength to lye in our Parliaments have bin ever plotting to cut off them One Parliament they attempted to blow up with powder but many a Parliament they have blown up without powder that so our Parliaments being intermitted interrupted they might at once lay bandes upon us and put out our eyes that we should not see our owne bondage lay us in our Lawes and liberties and we should neither know nor see Esth 7.4 And if only in our Lawes and liberties If as Esther said We had only bin sold for bondmen and bondwomen the mischeif had bin more tollerable But had not our adversaries plotred to slay us as the two witnesses were slaine in the Revelation To slay us by taking the word of truth and life from us Did they not say we will come upon them and they shall neither know nor see tell we are in the middest of them and cause that work to cease I know there are many in the Nation and may be some here that cannot yet be perswaded there was ever any design for the alteration of Religion amongst us Such I beseech in the spirit of meeknesse to lend me a patient and unprejudiced eare I stand not hear to declaime against any persons or rankes of men but to speak the words of truth and sobernesse I know that I stand this day not only before a great Court but before a greater God to whom I must give account for what I now speak Contzen Politic. li. 2. cap. 18. Layes a plott for the altering of Religion in a Protestant Kingdome which is Laid downe in certaine rules Adam Contzen A Jesuite of Mentz in his second booke of Politickes the Eighteenth Chapter hath drawne a plot for the cheating of a people of the true Religion by sleight of hand and the serving in of Popery againe upon them by art of legerdemaine that they shall neither know nor see The method of this which certainely is one of Satans Methods he layes downe in certaine rules Be pleased but to observe how exactly the late times have moved according to those Rules and then judge of their designes His first rule His first rule is this To proceed as Musicians doe in tuning their instruments Who straine their strings with agentle hand and set them up by little and little Or as Physitians doe in curing diseases who abate noxious humors by degrees and pauses This rule was observed both for the destructive and adstructive way For the destruction of the true Religion and the advancing of the false they had learned this wisdome to proceed by degrees and pauses And first for the destruction of the true Religion To suspend all the Orthodoxe preathers in the land at once would have made too great a noise therefore proceed by degrees And first suspend all Lecturers which will not constantly practise the ceremonies Then after a little pause Clap downe all Lecturers as an order of Vagrants not to be toller ated in the Church When that is done Forbid all Pastors and Incumbents preaching in their owne parish Churches upon weeke dayes Next inhibit preaching upon the Lords Day in the After noone under pretence of advancing Catechising by that meanes and yet with in a little while after forbidding all Catecheticall exposition tying men to the bare words of the Primmer Catechisine As soone after they forbad all praying but in the words of the Canon Now what can any ingenuous man thinke the designe of all this was But to rob us of preaching and praying and thereby of the Gospell and true Religion wholly in conclusion Only to doe it by degrees for feare of noise and tumult to doe it so as we should neither know nor see And for the adstructive way The rebuilding of Rome among us did they not proceed by the me steppes First Urging the constant and full practise of the old Ceremonies beyond the intention either of Law of or Canon Then bringing in an Idolatrous fardell of new pop shisuperstitions without warrant either of Law or Canon but their owne paper injunctions forcing their observance upon Ministers and people but by pauses and degrees First the Table must be railed in soone after set in an Altar posture Then thirdly All must be compelled to come and kneele before it or not receave the Sacrament Then it must becried up as the Sanctum Sanctorum the place of Gods chiefe residence upon earth the Seate and Throne of God Almighty And there upon Fifthly All mens faces in prayer must be turned towards that Men may yea must say some adore and bow before it c. What could the intent of all this be but after the Altar to bring in the sacrifice and with their wooden worship the breaden God Only to doe it by degrees that wee should not know nor see So in doctrine First bring in Arminian doctrines then the popish will easily follow Let the Serpent but winde in his head he will soone worke in his whole body Let Arminianisine but obtaine countenance and licence in the kingdome Our Pulpits Schooles Presses will soone bee filled with popish doctrins witnesse the publishing of so many points of popery one after another specially those two That the Pope is not Antichrist And that the Church of Rome is a true visible Church Alta sic surgunt maenia Romoa Thus according to the rule of their Master Iesuite they seeke to re establish Rome by degrees They said they shall not know nor see His second Rule His second Rule is this To presse the examples and practises of some as a good means to draw on the rest And was not this familiar with them to dazle the eyes of the meaner and lesse judicious people of the kingdome with the practices

head as Nisus was Cui splē didus Ostro Inter ho noratos medio de vertice canos crinis inhaerebat magni fiducia Regni Ovid. Metam Application the third by way of Exhortation first to the Parliament he might be more secure there then he can be among Papists and Cavaliers if every haire of his head were a life I come to a few words of Exhortation First To you the Members of the honorable House of Parliament Secondly To you the rest of my brethren First for you honourable and beloved This text this truth tells you what you must look to meet with God hath opened to you a great doore of opportunity for the promoving of his Churches good but their are many adversaries God hath called you together to a great work but you must look our adversaries will do their utmost either by craft or cruelty to cause the work to cease That which our Saviour spake to his Disciples to confirme their hearts against the persecutions of their adversaries The same say I to you to steel your hearts against the oppositions of your adversaries Matth. 5. So saith our Saviour persecuted they the Prophets that were before you The same say I to you So maligned they the Parliaments that were before you So slandered they the Parliaments that were before you So plotted they against the Parliaments that were before you So said they of them We will come upon them and they shall neither know nor see till we are in the middest of them and slay them and cause the work to cease Therefore be you in nothing terrified of your adversaries Durate vosmetrebus servate secundis Bear up against their oppositions After ages shall keep thankesgiving dayes for your deliverance as you now do for the deliverance of your forefathers You have the rememberance of that great deliverance as an incouragement to your hearts this day Drus Apopht● Qui custodivit Patres custodiet etiam filios Deliverances past are the pledges of future deliverances And this advantage you have above your forefathers That whereas they neither knew their danger nor sought deli verance yet were they delivered You see your danger flee to God by prayers tears fastings for deliverance You have the pray●rs and tears of all the Churches and Saints of Christ poasting incessantly to Heaven upon the same Embassage and can you faile of deliverance Remember againe the goodnesse and greatnesse of your cause and what Luther said to Melancthon When upon that opposition which the German reformation mett with all he was much troubled a and disquieted in his spirit Cum effet Melancthon animo admodum anxio non tam sui quam ipsius exitus posteritatis causâ Lutherus mo●et vt quia non hominum sed omnipotentis Dei sit hoc negotium omni deposirâ sollicitudine totam molem in illum reiiciat Cur inquit te Cruci as si Filium suum Deus pro nobis impendit quid trepidamus quid metuimus quid angimur tristamur an Satanas est illo potentior Cur mundum â Chirsto debellatum reformidamus Si malam causam defendimus cur non mutamus propositum si-piam atque jastam cur Dei promissis non confidimus praeter vitam certè nihil nobis Satanas etipere potest at vivit tamen in sempiternum regnat Christus sub cujus tu●elâ veritas est Peccatores quidem sumus non uno modo sed tamen Christus idcircò non est mend ●x cujus causam agimus Fremant Reges atque populi quantum volent ' qui caelos inhabitat deridebit cos Causam hanc Deus absque concilio nostro gubernavit ad hoc usque tempus protexit is quoque ad optatum sinem tandem perducet Sleid com l. 7. not for his own sake out for the works sake and the issue of it and posterityes sake Luther gives him councell That seeing the businesse was not mans but Almighty Gods Laying aside all care he would cast the whole weight of it upon him Why saith he do you vex your self If God have bestowed his Sonne upon us why are we afraid what tremble we at why are we distracted sadded Is Satan stronger then he Why feare we the world which Christ hath conquered If we defend an evill cause why do we not change our purpose If the cause be holy and just why do we not trust Gods promises Certainly there is nothing beside our lives that Sathan can snatch from us and though we dye Christ lives and reignes for ever under whose tuition the truth is We are indeed sinners more wayes th●n one but our sinnes shall never make Christ whose cause we are ingaged in a lier Let the Kings of the earth and the people rage as much as they will he that sits in heaven shall laugh them to scorn God hath hitherto ruled and defended this cause without our councells he alsowill bring it to the desired end May not all this be applied unto you but specially this last clause God without your councells above your councells by naked and immediate providences hath carried on his work in your hands hitherto and he will give it the desired prayed for issue you may be confident of it Only as your cause is good so see that your wayes be good Remembring what the holy ghost saith Proverb 16.7 When a mans wayes please God he maketh his very enemies to be at peace with him Let your personall wayes Your publick wayes What you act as men What you act as Parliament men please God and reape the fruit of it in peace with or triumph over all your enemies For your personall wayes your conversations as men Oh me thinkes if any of you when you came to this Assembly were of vaine conversations as other men are Yet so many prayers so many sermons so many Fast-dayes so many dangers so many deliverances such variety of admirable astonishing providences as you have known should have prevailed with your hearts to abandon all and become eminently gracious exact in all your wayes But if not If there be yet any sinne found upon any of you If any of you be conscious that any of his wayes though never so secret be displeasing unto God Let me in the feare of God and in the bowells of our Lord Iesus beseech you As you desire successe either to your councells or armes As you tender the good of your native country which I know is deare unto you why else should you put your lives in your hands to do it service Oh breake off your sinnes by repentance why should men of brave and honourable spirits staine and diminish their glory by any one sinne That as it was said of Naaman he was a mighty man of vaiour but a leper So of any of you He is a prudent man abrave speaker but a profound statist a worthy patriott but Oh let there be no But For Gods sake be you all as the Sunne