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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70625	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, November 5, 1667 by ... George Lords Bishop of Winton ...	Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2796; ESTC R12589	21,545	39

all Scruples being removed and all danger of Discovery being as they though prevented by every mans having taken an Oath of secrecy and received the Sacrament upon it the Eve of that day was come which next to that of Sadom and Gomorra should have been the blackest and dismallest that ever the Sun beheld The Eve of that Day which was to have been the Doomsday of this Kingdom The Eve of that Day was come I say upon which assoon as the King and Prince together with the Queen and her Ladies and all the Lords and Peers were come into the House of Lords and the whole House of Commons were come up into the same Room to attend his Majesty it was intended that fatal Blow should have been given of which what would have been the dismal and direful Effects I had rather leave it to every mans fancy to Imagin than vainly indeavour to Express what would have been indeed beyond all expression But thanks be to our great and good God that it never arrived to any other existence but what it had in their Intention and what it hath now in our Imagination For that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that severe all-seeing eye of the Divine Justice and Providence which had lookt upon this Embrio of darkness from the first Conception until all its Limbs were formed and framed and fashioned did then even then when it was come unto the Birth and was ready to be brought forth suddenly and strangely and almost as much to ours as their amazement discover it or rather made it discover it self so that it was stopt it was smother'd it was stifled it was buried in its own Vault in that infernal Womb wherein it was conceived And thus the snare was broken and we were delivered even before we knew the Danger we were in which was so much the greater because we had no Apprehension at all of it and consequently no humane Possibility to prevent it to avoid it or to deliver our selves from it And therefore what we could not possibly do for our selves God himself was pleased at that time to do for us without any concurrence of our own towards it But we must not think because it was so once it will be so always or that we shall always be saved by Miracle neither must we think because we have escaped one that therefore we are secure from all dangers or that we may not possibly be in as great danger now or at another time as we were then because we do not see it not fear it nor suspect it for we did not see it nor fear it nor suspect it then neither But rather to consider Whether this Barbarous Design considering who were the Contrivers of it and Actors in it were not the product of all or some of those Doctrines before specified and proved to be the Doctrines of those that govern in the Church of Rome Secondly Whether the same Causes are not likely at some time or other to produce the same or the like Effects Thirdly Whether we may not in Conscience and ought not in Prudence to prevent the sowing and growing of such Tares amongst our Wheat of such Doctrines in our Church I presume no man here doubts but we may and ought to do so especially considering that none of these Doctrines which are and will be always the seeds of Sedition Conspiracies and Rebellion are yet disclaimed by any declaratory Sentence either of Council or of Pope but are still avowed and maintained by the prevailing party in that Church nay considering likewise that this horrible Conspiracy it self the Gunpowder-Treason hath not been as yet ever branded with any note of Infamy or Detestation set upon it by any publick Authority of the Church but rather magnified and glorified by suffering Garnett and Oldcorne to be put into the Martyrology or Catalogue of Martyrs by the Jesuits which they durst not have done without the Popes knowledg and consent to it which must argue his approbation of it though he did not make a Panegyrick Oration in praise of these Traytors as Sixtus Quintus did in praise of Fryar Clement for killing Henry the III. King of France because that was prosperum acfoelix scelus and this was but an Attempt only considering these things I say no man can blame us for looking as well as we can to our selves and providing as well as we can for our own security from the danger of such Practises which we have experimentally found to be the fruit of such Doctrines And therefore from the Use of this Touchstone by way of Discovery I come to the Use we are to make of it by way of Caution And I will give it you in the words of our Saviour himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beware of false Prophets yea though they come to you in sheeps cloathing as if they and none but they were of Christs fold whereas inwardly and indeed saith he they are not only Wolves but ravening Wolves that is such as intend to make a Prey of you and by their fruits saith he you shall know them that is by their teaching such Doctrines as are inconsistent with Peace and tending to the stirring up of strifes and to the embroyling of Kingdoms and States in discord and dissention which is an Evidence that they are not of a Lamb-like but of a Woolvish nature and disposition Try them therefore by this Touchstone in my Text which will never fail you The name of Catholick may be falsly assumed Universal Tradition may be falsly alledged the Churches Infallibility may be falsly pretended Miracles may be fraudulently forged nay the Word of God it self may be falsly interpreted or fallaciously applied But Gods nature can never be changed he is the God of Peace and therefore he is not nor ever was nor ever can be the Author of Confusion nor of any Doctrine or Practise tending to Confusion Mark therefore saith Paul those that cause Divisions among you and avoid them Mark them I say and set some mark upon them that others may know them and avoid them also For of this sort as this same Apostle tells us 2 Tim. 3. 6. are they who creep into Houses and lead captive silly Women laden with sins and led away with divers lusts following herein the Devils method beginning as he did with the weaker Vessels and hoping to have the same success as he had in seducing our Adams by our Eves And thus going up and down and converting as they say but subverting as St. Paul saith Tit. 1. 11. whole Houses they do by little and little undermine such Churches and States as are not built upon their own foundation And yet I will not say as St. Paul saith Gal. 5. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I would they were even cut off that trouble you or that cause troubles amongst you No God is my witness before whom I stand it is not their Persecution but our own Preservation that I contend for For as