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A43617	Curse ye Meroz, or, The fatal doom in a sermon preached in Guild-hall Chappel London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, May the 9th 1680 / by Edmond Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1803; ESTC R17523	32,578	46

decree and pronounce it altogether necessary for all Mankind to be subject to the Pope of Rome in pain of Damnation Observe by the way the difference betwixt the Popes old and new style For till a Thousand years after Christ no Pope was ever so audacious as to claim or usurp Supremacy over Kings and Emperors So that the Pope in ordine ad spiritualia and the presbyterian ribus Christi hookes in all Dominion Kings will have a good share left between them but Pride and Covetousness taught these Sons of Perdition these Innovations and Usurpations For Priests and Bishops themselves however they pretend the derivation of their Office from Christ yet have the liberty of the open Administration thereof from the Civil Authority alone and Laws of the Land Object But suppose the Civil Authority will not be so civil to us to grant us this liberty is not this Persecution what shall we do in this case Ans In such a Case obey our Saviour's Command and take his advice Mat. 10.23 When they Persecute you in one City Fly to another and in one Country Fly to another Country Every good Christian every tender conscience will do it but the Papists and Fanaticks and Non-conformists scorn the motion flye say they what fly from our dear proselytes fly from our Dayly-bread fly from our flocks and our herds they scorn it they 'le sooner fly in the Magistrates Face they are good Christians the while St. Paul thought himself happy that he could fly though he ventur'd a Limb by Flying being let down in a Basket over the City Wall and so escaped their Hands Obj. But we live not under Pagan but Christian Magistrates and therefore should expect better things of them Ans I grant it and so we do Blessed be God any man may in England be as good a Christian as he will and instead of Persecution for the same have encouragement from the King and his Laws But woful experience has taught not to trust with too much Power Canters and Hypocrites Juglers and Dissenters no Nation in the World but endeavors to maintain its own being it s own Laws and Constitutions from the Plots and Conspiracies of such as always Watch to defame disparage contemn circumvent and undermine it especially to such as have bid defyance to a good Conscience for a good and conscientious Christian dares not disobey our Saviors Command but if he be persecuted in one Country he will he must he ought to fly to another and in the Interim if he cannot Fly willingly to suffer for Christ and joy and glory therein as the Apostles did and not whine mutiny and complain as Fanaticks do Alas the Men do not believe what they would make others believe that woe be to them if they do not Preach the Gospel if they did they would Preach it in India in Turky in Persia the World is wide and the Converting of a Turk has a better Reward than the perverting of one that is a Christian already Cicero indeed holds it to be Heresie to differ or dissent from the Religion of a Man's Country and the King of Morocco answered the Ambassadors of King John of England requesting to know how His Majesty liked St. Paul's Epistles which he had lately read with a Protestation that were he to chuse a Religion he would be a Christian But he held it abominable not to live and dye in the Religion received from his Fore-fathers and his Country But these were Infidels and to be condemned by us Christians who are taught to call no Man Master nor no Man Father or Rabbi upon Earth that is not jurare in verba Magistri but to give a reason of the Faith and hope that is in us though the said Cicero and the Infidel King spoke like as they were very Wise-men and great States-men But when through Gods great Mercy we are happy in being born in a Country Beautified with the best Religion and the best Laws nothing but the said Spirit of Popery or Foppery can make any Man a Non-conformist Our Blessed Saviour though he was Lord of Heaven and Earth and also poor and penny less yet when tribute was demanded of him rather than he would offend the Law of the Land he liv'd in did a Miracle to get Money to pay his Assessment St. Paul upon his Tryal when he was Indicted before Festus by the Jews who laid many grievance complaints against him he clears himself by Pleading not Guilty not by demurring to the Jurisdiction of the Court and Laws of the Land Acts 25.28 and yet they were Heathen Laws but Pleads not Guilty and Justifies that neither against the Law of the Jews nor against the Temple which yet was Superstitious nor yet against Caesar though their Conqueror and Invader had he offended any thing all And Acts 28.17 In these words clears himself namely I have committed nothing against the People or customes of our Fathers I wonder by what Rule by what Pattern a Non-Conformist walks whilst he will neither coppy after Christ nor St. Paul Surely no opinion is so wild and extravagant but will find some Fools so wicked as to follow it though it ruin them I read of a Sect called Caynites because they praised Cain in Murdering his Brother others that have commended Corah Dathan and Abiram as stout Independents and Libertines that would not be controul'd with never a Moses or Aaron of them all nay I read of one Bruno that writ an Oration in Commendation of the Devil and his Luciferian Pride Oh liberty liberty is a sweet thing say some the very Birds when caged had rather live at all adventure and perhaps starve then be coup't up with never so much Plenty oh say they liberty of Conscience to believe what we list and say what we list and do what we lift is a very precious enjoyment Happy are the People that are in such case like the Guiana-Indians sine Lege sine Rege I can tell you of a time and a Country in Holy Scripture where there was just such a time of Liberty And yet they had a King the good King Asa but of little benefit to the People because they had a great mind to this same liberty and to live as they list and lawless Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God no matter for that saith the Atheist and without a teaching Priest all the better saith the Papist and Fanatick and without Law all the better saith the Libertine Here was a time to some Men's wish and was it not a happy time Read that in the 5. verse And in those times there was no peace to him that went out or to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the Inhabitants of the Countries and Nation was destroyed of Nation and City of City for God did vex them with all adversity And 't is Impossible it should be otherwise for there was no Law no Yoak every

brave the Magistrate and face him and dare him with their Numbers as if they were ready to come to the Poll with him and count whether more People come from the Church on a Lords-day or from the Meeting vying for multitude especially if the weaker Vessels the Vessels of Frailty will but pass Muster Poor Bashful tender Hearts and tender Consciences As if a Holder-forth cannot Preach Christ in the Wild of Kent as in the Throngs and Crowds of a City or Corporation Well the Magistrates surely do well enough know their meanings and what they would be at And such a Discourse as this and such a Text as this can no where be so properly or so well Improv'd as in this Assembly the most Honorable and most considerable of this greatest and most Glorious City of the whole Kingdom the great Hinge of Peace and War Those Preachers are like Jobs Comforters Job 13.4 either Forgers of Lyes or Physicians of no value that do not handle or do not handle to purpose this Distemper What disquiets your sleeps but Fears of Disturbances from the Spirit of Popery and the Spirit of Foppery I know not which is worst they are both Bloody and Dangerous the former by Plotting but Blessed be God their Plots come to nothing the latter by Plotting and Acting too God knows not to mention the Defolation the Bondage the Tyranny and oppression this City groan'd under for so many years under so many Masters and different Tyrants Three or Four several ones in a year sometimes before His Majesties Happy Restauration but even since though the Papists might Plot Rebellion and Treason yet the Phanaticks have not only plotted but twice been up in Armes which the Papists never were twice I say in Armes and Open Field Fights in Scotland where our Miseries were first brooded and begun their Rise but Blessed be God as soon Defeated which was Gods goodness more than our Deserts no Thanks though to the Coventiclers and Field-meeters they show'd their good will and their good Religion and their tender Consciences in the Interim oh true Church Militant here upon Earth Why should Ministers make wild and randome discourses in the Pulpit and but beat the air applying remedies to distempers that the City and Kingdom are not especially plagu'd with alas Faction and Foppery and Popery are the great disease of the Kingdom with which it now at this day as well as of a long time it has been vext and griev'd hic seca hic ure here make applications otherwise we Preachers are like those the Apostle speaks of 2. Thes 3.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Working not at all to the purpose but busie to no purpose What shall Jesuits dare to venture their lives to come to pervert our Nation in the Spirit of Popery and shall Fanaticks dare and brave the Magistrate to his Face in publick in the Cities in the greatest City of the Nation and all this with an Impudent Forehead like the Whore in the Proverbs wiping the mouth and saying they have done no wickedness and all this in contempt nay in defyance of all Law and Authority and shall no Man dare to say and speak publickly what they dare do publickly Is it no sin no crime no shame for them presumptuously and with a High Hand and a Brazen Face to transgress the Laws and is he fit to be a Minister of God and the King that has neither honesty nor courage to Check and Rebuke it The great and good Emperor Constantine the first Christian Emperor took another course with Factious Coventicles Euseb de vit const He prohibited them by Edict and Proclamation see the Proclamation and Edict at large in Euseb de vit constant Theod. l. 1. c. 19. He Burnt their Books and proscribed the Authors and Abettors to use his own words Pestium illarum audacia ministri Dei hoc est meâ Executione coercebitur Their Plaguy Impudence shall be restrained by the Authority of the Minister of God that is my self c. that good Emperor Those bold pestilent fellows that dare offend in defyance of all Authority I 'le make bold to punish their Fool hardiness by my Authority A Speech as pious as Princely and a pious Example to Princes For ancient and modern experience has taught that faction like a Top never goes well but when under the lash and well whip't 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore obstinate and prating Fanaticks or Seducers saith St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St. Paul whose Mouthes must be stopped oportet os obturare it is very fit they should be stopped Why it follows because they subvert whole Houses teaching things that they ought not for filthy Lucres sake When the People had got a new Religion but a false one King Josiah puts it down and is commended for it 2. Kings 23. from the 4. verse to the 14. verse The same did King Hezekiah 2. Kings 18.3 4 5 6 7. The first Law of Theodosius that good Emperor in his Law Book is de sacrâ Trinitate quid credendum Theod lib. legum A Lawful King may not only imperata facere but imperare facienda though I know the Learned Grotius scruples this latter but he was a Hollander By this Regal Supremacy Solomon deposed Abiathar the Arch-Bishop because he sided with the Rebels 1 Kings 2.27 Constantine did the like to Vigelius and Justinian to Silverius Otho the Emperor ejected Pope John 12. for his Necromancy and Wickedness 'T is Chrysostom's Paraphrase on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers whether Apostle Evangelist Pastor or Teacher Pope or Bishop Presbyter or Presbyterian they must needs be subject and that for Conscience-sake if they have any Conscience any Conscience unseared Rom. 13 5 Vid Chrys Hom 3. ad Antioch any Conscience not hardned To whom assents Theodoret Theophylact Oecumenius and all that are not posses 't with the evil Spirit to keep to my old terms of Popery or Foppery King Josiah came not with Cap in hand to the High-priest 2 King 23.4 but commanded him to reform this and that Nefas est in dubium deducere ejus potestatem cui omnium gubcrnatio superno constat delegata Judicio saith the 6th Toletan Counsel speaking of the undoubted right of King Chintellanus The four first General Counsels were called by Emperors not by Popes Socrat l. 5 in proem nor the Clergy Pope Leo petitions the Emperor to call a Counsel in Italy and he call'd it at Ephesus Supplicationi nostrae dignetur Imperator annuere Lev. Epist 9.24.26 Let the Emperor vouchsafe an Ear and hearken to the request of his humble Petitioner But many years after the Canon of Pope Boniface runs a stile and Language more Magisterical Dictator like Dicimus Definimus De majoritat in glossâ pronunciamus esse de necessitate salutis omm humanae creaturae subesse Romano Pontifici We say it we