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A30998 A sermon preach'd before the University of Cambridge on the 9th of September being the day of publick thanksgiving for the delivery of His Majesties Sacred Person, his royal brother, and the government, from the late hellish fanatick conspiracy / by Miles Barne ... Barne, Miles, d. 1709? 1683 (1683) Wing B861; ESTC R12630 13,250 36

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his unalterable Right by Religion Law History and Reason Next call to your minds their strange Illegal Votes That if the King should come to any violent Death they would Revenge it to the utmost on the Papists Whereby they both prompted any bold Enthusiastick Hone to commit the Execrable Parricide and irritated the Rabble to the Massacre of innocent Persons That whosoever should lend the King any money upon the several Branches of His Revenue should be adjudg'd to hinder the sitting of Parliaments and be responsible for it in Parliament whereby they not only took away all hopes of necessary Supplies tyed up as much as in them lay the hands of all Loyal Subjects but moreover as His Majesty complains would have reduced Him to a more helpless condition than the meanest of His Subjects Their resolving that the Prosecution of Dissenters upon Penal Laws was grievous to the Subject an encouragement to Popery and dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom whereby they assumed to themselves a Power of suspending Acts of Parliament of Licencing Riotous and Seditious Conventicles and added strength and boldness to the Leaders of the Faction If any Loyal Member though never so Eminent for his Talent in speaking and other Abilities stood up in the Defence of his King or Country He was either rudely hiss't at or run down with a Train of clamorous Speeches How that they would have made use of an Impeachment to have rescued a Profess't Papist and a notorious Traytor from Punishment How importunately they Address't His Majesty for Pardons and Pensions for a pack of Prosligate Villains whom they kept in pay to accuse any man that stood in the way to their wicked Designs How they Voted several Eminent Persons Enemies to the Kingdom without Process of Law hearing their Defence or any Proof so much as offered against them Lastly How that at the same time when they amused the People with Jealousies and apprehensions of Tyranny and Oppression they assumed to themselves an unpresidented Arbitrary Power of taking into Custody their Fellow-Subjects for Matters no way Relating to Priviledges of Parliament How they had an Intercourse with Traytors a Correspondency with the common Agitator for the Conspiracy A Villain who declares King-killing a Glorious Act hopes to see Regicides Rewarded by Parliaments Statues Erected to their Memories and they styled Liberatores Patriae i. e. in the Blasphemy of the Modern Stile Saviours of the Nation And all this time we must be born in hand and accurs'd for Tories and Papists if we will not believe them to be true Patriots the only Assertors of our Religion Liberties and Properties that they alone provided for the Safety of His Majesties Sacred Person and the Dignities of the Imperial Crown Fourthly These audacious Proceedings having forc't His Majesty to an Interval of Parliaments They obstruct the ordinary Course and Methods of Justice by pack't Ignoramus Juries whereby Faction and Treason became secure and frontless being now above the reach of the Laws an Impunity was Proclaim'd to the greatest State-Malefactors the Principal Conspirator was Rescued out of the Hands of Justice and Triumphant Medals dispers'd for his Deliverance such a bare-fac't Affront to Authority as can scarce be Parallel'd To accomplish this Matchless Violation of Justice Notorious known Dissenters are brought to the Communion and Sacraments of the Church of England to Capacitate them for Places of Trust and take Oaths to Conform to the Government which they intend to Destroy and so become Perjured in the very Act of swearing And for this they have the Resolution of their own Casuists that an Oath obligeth not in the sense of the Imposer but the Taker A more sure and Compendious way of Ruining our Church and State than the Jesuit with all his Equivocations and Dispensations hath hitherto Attempted For it is now no longer an open Enemy but a Familiar Friend that hath done us this Dishonour Fifthly By their Republican Clubs Riotous Rambles and Descents into the several Parts of the Nation to number the People and try the strength of their Party whilst their Chief like another Absolon takes his Glorious Progresses addresseth to the Populace and receives their Caresses insinuates himself into the Minds of the Discontented and alienates their Affections yet farther from their Obedience to their Lawfull Prince Sixthly By Bandying themselves into an Accursed Association which was neither better nor worse for worse it could not be than a transcript of the old Scotch Covenant as that was of the Holy League of France which laid three Kingdoms in Bloud murthered the King and dissolv'd the Monarchy These were the Principal Methods which they pursued in the carrying on their Trayterous Purposes but these failing and their Villanies rendring them every day more and more odious in the sight of all good Men and the Unanimous Addresses of all Loyal Subjects from all Parts of the Kingdom Proclaiming a Detestation and Abhorrence of their wicked Proceedings and giving the greatest assurances of Fidelity and Affection to the King and the Establish't Government by a free and Generous Proffer of their Lives and Fortunes in the Defence of Both they became desperate and resolving to trust no longer to the slow Methods of Sedition betook themselves to open force Which brings me to my third Particular that when these means fail'd they resolved with the desperate Citizens in the Text Nolumus Hunc We will not have This King to Reign over us And this was to be effected either by raising an Army to master His Guards and seize His Person or by a Barbarous Assassination and both these Designs were carried on by several Interests at the same time the Particulars whereof are so Plainly and Methodically set forth in His Majesties Declaration which has now been twice Publickly read that it supersedes any further Relation I shall therefore very briefly consider the Quality of this Hellish Conspiracy and then set before your eyes that Scene of Horrour and Desolation which had overspread and blackned the Land in case it had taken Effect If we consider the Quality it is compounded of so many Malignant Ingredients that it looks more like a Confederacy against Religion Morality and the common Sentiments of Humanity than a Conspiracy against the Frame Constitution and Administration of the Government Ambition Avarice Revenge have often bewitch't men and led them into Treasonable Associations but this seems to be the sole Result of Abstracted Malice of men abandon'd to the Curse of a Reprobate Mind For what would they have enjoyed which they had not or what could they have desired which they might not have had Was not the Chief of the Conspiracy in the quiet Possession of all Places of Trust Profit and Honour which could make him either Happy in himself serviceable to the Government or Gratefull to the People Did not many of the Rest owe their Forfeited Lives and rais'd Fortunes to His Majesties Grace and Bounty Were not all of them