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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

the Lord rebuke thee Satan But what better suggestions can breath from them that are Parl●ament adversaries from generation to generation This is it that hath moved his Majestie to cast himself into the armes of Papists Where he is as safe as a lambe in the middest of wolves Suppose that party pretending his prerogative and thereby seducing a great part of the Kingdome to assist them Suppose they prevaile What a condition is his Majesty in Either he is in danger of losing his Religion and being reconciled to Rome Or if not of losing his life and forfeiting his Crown from himself and his posterity Nay possibly he may lofe all though he should abandon Religion and be reconciled to Rome For so Simanca determines h Si Reges autal●● Principes Christian● facti sunt Haeretici protinus subjecti vasalli ab eorum Dominio liberantur Nec jus hoc recuperabunt quamvis poste à reconciliantur Ecclesiae propter haeresin non solum Rex regno privatur sed etiam ejus filii à regni successionne pelluntur Simanca de Occult. tit 42. see 2 If Kings or other Christian Princes be turned Heretikes the●r subjects are presently freed from their Dominion neither shall they recover their right againe though they be afterwards reconciled to the Church And as a King looseth his kingdome by Heresy so his children lose their right of succession And to look no farther then Henry the fourth of France Did his being reconciled to Rome secure either his life or Crown Lord give thy judgments to the King Lord give thy judgments to the King I but no fear of this The Papists have taken the oathes of supremacy and allegeance And what are we the better An oath upon the conscience of a Papist is like a collar upon an Apesneck that he will slip on for his Masters pleasure and slip off againe for his owne Hear but how Pascenius scoffes King Iames for the invention of that oath and you will see his sonn hath little cause to trust them for all their taking it a Vide in tantâ astutiâ quanta sit simplicitas Iuramentum tot circumstantiis connexuisse existimabat ut salvâ conscientiâ nullâ ratione a quoquam dissolui possit Sed videre non potuit si Pontifex juramentum dissolverit omnesejus Nexus sive de fidelitate Regi praestandâ sive de dispensatione pariter non admittendâ pariter dissolutos fore Imò ali●d dicam admirabilius Iuramentum si iniustum apertè declaretur Neminem obligat Sed ipso facto nullum est Regis vero juramentum iniustum esse ab ipso Ecclesiae Pastore sufficienjer declaratum est He saith he Vide in tantâ astutiā quanta sit simplicitas Iuramentum tot circumstantiis connexuisle existimabat vt salvâ conscientiâ nulla ratione à quo quam dissoluiposset sed vidore non potuit ei Ponti ex luramentum dissoluerit omnes eius Nexus sive de fidelitate Regi praestanda sive de dispensatione pariter non admittenda pariter dissolutos fore c. Vides igitur jam in fumum abiisse illius obligationem ut vinculum quod à Sapientibus ferreum putabatur minus sit quam stramincum Pascenius in Resp ad Episc monit Iacobi Regis 2 Sam. 16.21 how simple they are in all their craft he thought he had composed an oath with so many particular circumstances that it could not with a safe conscience be dispensed with but he could not see that if the Pope loosed the oath all the knots of it whither concerning allcageance to the King or not suffering the oath to be dispensed with they are all untied Yea that which is more admirable If the oath be publickly declared to be unjust it bindes none but ipso facto is made void Now the Pope hath sufficiently declared this oath of the Kings to be unjust so that the obligation of it vanishes into smoake and that bond which those wise men thought to be as strong as brasse is lesse then a straw And now what Faith can his Majesty give to or what Confidence can his Majesty have in the oath of these men And yet as if it were not enough To withdraw the heart of our Soveraign from confiding in his subjects The venome of this treason reaches farther And as Achitophel knowing that if Absalon were reconciled to his Father againe it would be his destruction put Absalon upon such a businesse as he knew was a scarec capable of reconciliation So this cursed faction knowing that upon union between his Majestie and Parliament followes their deserved ruine have councelled yea even compelled his Majestie to that which if any thing might make the breach between his Majestie and his subjects incurable Oh that vast effusion of English bloud which hath bin already not only in Ireland but in England The sunne hath not seen so many carkasses of English men lying upon their native soile in many hundred yeares The Lord see and avenge it upon them that are the originall cause of this bloud-sheading The violence that is done to me and my flesh be upon thee ô Papacy shall the Inhabitante of Ireland say And my bloud upon thee ô Prelacy shall England say That That 's the Helena for whose sake all these warres are For the defence of the Prelacy the Scotck warre was commenced though P crogative and Monarchy was pretended and for the same we may conceive the warre of England is pursued We may say to that faction as Ioah did to David 2. Sam 19.6 Thou regardest neither Prince nor servants for this day I perceave that if Absalon had lived and all we had dyed it had pleas● thee well They regard neither Prince nor people for we may easily perceave that if England and Scotland imbrue themselves in one anothers blouds or England tear out its owne bowells though all we dye so the Hierarchy survive they would be well pleasen Shall they escape by their iniquity thou Lord in tey displeasure shalt cast them down As for our Soveraign Thou ô God in whose hands the hearts of Kings are free his heart from the councells and ingagements of mischeivous men and men of bloud Give him a true understanding of and a due confidence in the loyall affections of his Protestant subjects Bring him back among us rather in the prayers and tears then in the blouds of his people And you my brethren so many as have any sparke of loyalty in your breastes and I hope you are all full of it desire and seeke the same thing yee of this City Yee of the honorable Nation of the Scots be not yee the last to bring the King back to his house 2. Sam. 19.11.12 Yee are his brethren yee are his bone and his flesh why should yee be the last in bringing the King back to his house againe even to his house of Parliament Assuredly if his Majesties life were bound up in one haire of his

frustrated that plot We all hope for ever Information of some present practises of the adversaries But did I say for ever May we hope it What are our adversaries all destroyed or have they left of plotting Neither And yet I hope we may say for ever This great plot of altering Religion prevented for ever As for our adversaries verily if ever the did straine their Witts to exceed themselves in plotting mischiefe it hath been since this Parliament Such a succenturiation there hath beene of plotts that wee may say of them as she of Gad. A Troope commeth Many of them indeed have proved abortive miscarried before they came to a growth capable of full discovery and so are more easily denied then proved Besides some ridiculous things have beene sent forth into the publicke of purpose to outface the truth and sully the glory of our deliverances from many and reall dangers which possibly may be the reason why some men are so incredulous they can see no adversaries they apprehend no dangers the Parliament needs no guard there is no necessity of settling the MILITIA of the Kingdome If there bee any such here and you bee men of reason hearken alittle First Doe you not thinke there are as many Papists in England now as there were at the time of the powder Treason I know not how there should bee fewer but more unlesse the preaching of popish doctrines complying with popish ceremonies setting up publike Masses tolerating a convent of Friers relaxing the Lawes against popish Priests bee a meanes to convert papists there cannot be fewer then was at the time of the powder treason Secondly Consider whether the papists have any better doctrines d spositions principles now then they had then Their faith was then faction their Religion Rebellion in the judgement of the State who spake as they found Have they since changed their faith altered their Religion that our State should alter their judgement of them Doe they not yet hold it as lawfull as meritorious to promove the Catholicke cause Vi vel fraude by violence or treason now as they did then Have they retracted that doctine of theirs a Reges et principes non Romano-Catholici possunt de jure occidi etiam à privatâ persona illud factum est gener●su● cum virtute conjunctum heroicum Compa●●n d●m cum maximis sum●a Laude dignis factis esse Sanctissimum humanissimum dignissimum la●datissimum commendatissimum c. Es qui in vitam talium Regum es principium conjuram esse animosos machinato res fortititudinem Eorum esse plusquam humanam supplicia eorum non nisi vera martyria appellanda qui fint aliquand● praemium accepturi in vi●â aeternâ Francis de Veron Constant in Apol Part. 1. Cap. 7. That Kings Princes which are not Roman Catholicks may be lawfully killed by any private person And that the killing of them is a generous vertuous heroick exploit To bee compared with the greatest and most praise worthy actions A most holy worthy commendable praise-full work Those that conspire against the life of such Kings and Princes are magnanimous persons Their courage is more than humane heroick divine Their punishments are true martyrdome they shall receave reward in the kingdom of Heaven Have they yet revoked that assertion b Necessarium quocunque casu Religionem confirmari etiam ●orte Regum Id. pat 2 c 12 15. It is necessary in any case that Religion be maintained even with the death of Kings Or that of the Iesuite c Non passe ab a●iq●● fi●ri ullū mag●s meritorium opus quam si Regem interfi●eret Anton. Arnold in Ora contra Iesutias Varadius to Barerius That there could not be a more meritorious work then for him to kill the King Do they not to this day honour Garnet that Arch powder Traitour as a Saint have not their a Co●nel a Lapid in Apocal cap. 7. ver 3. Late Writers crowned him with fresh Encomiasticks And hath not our State reason to have a watchfull and prudent jealousie over men informed with such desperate principles and thus incouraged to all bloudy designes specially such of them as are Iesuites and Seminaries of whom we may truely say as Amilcar did of his sonnes Hee bred them b Plutarch Tanquam leoninos catulos in pernitiem Romani imperij c Se quam primū posset hostem fore populo Rom capitalem Liv li. 21 c. 1. Appian de bellis Hisp as Lions Whelpes for the destruction of the Roman Empire So doe they breed their Novices As Lions whelpes for the destruction of the English Church and Kingdome And as Hannibal when hee was but nine yeares old swore upon the Altar of their Gods that as soone as hee was able hee would bee a deadly enemy to the people of Rome So do they in effect sweare as much against us d Ad defendendū retinendum papatum Rom contra omnem ●ominē adjutor ero Haereticos Schismaticos qui alicut ex Dominis nostris successoribus p●aedictis Rebel●es fuerint persequar impugna ●o Szeged speculum Pontificum I will helpe to defend and maintaine the Roman papacy against every man Heretickes and Schismaticks And all such as shall rebell against our Lord the Pope and all his successors I will persecute and oppose The whole fry of them are Conjurati hostes Ecclesiae Reipublica They declared themselves so in their powder treason and as long as they retaine their old Religion they cannot but retaine their old disposition Thirdly there being papists among us now as there was at the time of the powder Treason They being infected with as bloudy doctrines and principles now as then Consider Thirdly Whether they may not pretend to themselves as just causes to put them upon all bloudie and desperate designes now as then they did Were they crossed in their expectations of a tolleration of their Religion then Their expectations were raised higher now They hoped for a revolting to their Religion and are crossed in that Did they feare the State would make some further provision for the suppressing of popery then And did they not feare the State would make some farther provision for the utter extirpation of it now Were they so inraged then Surely they are madde and desperate now Were their thoughts so full of bloud then Sure they are full of hell now And of a truth if there had not beene one plot nor one treason discovered all this Parliament time yet good reason why the Parliament should upon these considerations arm the Kingdom for its defence And the whole Nation is bound to them for their care herein to prevent our adversaries least they should say Wee will come upon them and they shall neither know nor see till wee are in the midst of them and slay them and cause the worke to cease But what need these Ambages when the bloudy monsters of Ireland speake