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A71287	Loyalty protesting against popery, and phanaticism popishly affected being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1682 at St. Olave's Hartstreet, London / by William Wray ...	Wray, William, 1650?-1692.	1683 (1683)	Wing W3672; ESTC R12946	14,911	36

Confidents unawares and having betrayed them into a state of Impotence and Security murder'd both the helpless and those that were at Peace with them Josephus informs us farther De Antiq. Jud. l. 1. c. 19. that it was at a time of extraordinary Festivity and probably upon the Occasion of this new Alliance that it was in the Night too when all Jealousies were hush'd and when weary of the Pleasures of the Day the Sichemites had fearlesly given themselves up to a profound Repose so essential is it to Treason not only to be False but Cowardly and Base I have hated the sins of unfaithfulness says the Psalmist Bluntly and Pathetically and certainly there is no sin so detestable as Treachery is nor any sinner in all the Sacred History that hath the like infamous brand upon his Memory as Judas hath who kiss'd and Betray'd his Master to whom that of our Saviour was no less severe than kind Friend wherefore art thou come Which is very applicable to the Occasion for Lord who suspected our Roman Judas's who had injured them who had provoked them or who was at Enmity with them nothing but the foreknowledge of their Principles and the experience of their former Villanies could at such a time under so gracious a Prince of so meek and gentle a Disposition and so particularly kind to them have perswaded any sober Man to suspect them beforehand or to believe them Traitors when discovered such Reason had the Government from its own tenderness and indulgence toward them to be secure and hope well of them But this is the Time for such Devils to do their work in according to the example of their Master who sowes his Tares in the Field and sends his Firebrands into the Harvest when men sleep and think no harm and 't is his Principle and Temper to Damn and confound those that are most his Friends That this Conspiracy was Night-work contrived in an Abyss of Darkness managed in the bowels of the Earth carried on with all the Arts of secrecy and that it was circumstantiated with all the Formalities of a Cursed Treason I need not tell you for the History is no less notorious now than the Plot was once a secret 3. These Sons of Jacob to put a good Face upon the Matter and prevent suspicion pretend Religion and a point of Conscience that they could not converse freely with the Sichemites till they were Circumcised when in truth they could not conveniently Murder them till then And who could have mistrusted these men of Perjury that had such tender Consciences who could have imagined but that they were Saints in their Morals that were so scrupulous about a Ceremony Nay but who would think that the Sons of the Patriarch should prophane the Sacramental Badge of their Profession the Seal of the Promises the most Sacred Rite of the Religion of that Age and impiously pervert it to the ends of Treason and Bloodshed and by the same Symbol adopt the Sichemites into their Fraternity and mark them out for Murder I believe the stratagem was a Novel in that Age though it be grown stale in ours No man now almost has a design to drive but Religion and Conscience are of the Plot. These are the Procurers to our Lusts and Factors for our Covetousness and Suborners of a Poll when we have a mind to be Popular We defraud or belie our Brethren and forswear our selves We clamour the Church and slander the Government we speak evil of Dignities and murmur against our Betters we Confederate and Associate Conspire and Rebel Murder Kings and take possession of their Thrones and Lands and yet come off cleverly and with Applause by putting all upon the score of Religion and Conscience And being fortified with these Charms there 's nothing so Sacred that we dare not Prophane nor so Horrid that we dare not do Doubtless the Papists first taught the Reformation this Religious Juggle For they have all along consecrated their Devilish Practices by these Glorious Names The Church's interest is the centre of their Religion and their Consciences turn upon the same Pin that every thing is Pious Conscientious and Meritorious that makes for the Cause and there 's no sin with them like ill-luck and miscarriage Oh the Work of this Day had been a Blessed Work the Traitors Saints and the Day a Red letter'd Holy Day as long as ever the Date of the Roman Calendar had lasted if things had but gone merrily on for a few hours longer till the fatal Thunderclap had gone off and struck the Church and Kingdom dead at a Blow And then for drawing in a Sacrament to serve a purpose there are no Simeonites no Levites in the World like them Have you not heard of an Emperor dispatch'd with the Eucharistical Cup and of a certain Pope suspected to have been so served by the Consecrated Host Nay do's not the Sacrament it self in their Notion flesh them in Cruelty and teach these common God-eaters to devour and suck the Blood of Men The Present Instance seems to whisper somewhat like it For the Conspirators first hardned themselves with the Transubstantiated Elements and then like Judas big with the Devil and Malice went on boldly as far as Gods providence would let them with the Execution 4. The last thing I shall observe in this Tragedy is the concluding Act their impartial cruelty in the Execution The King the Prince the People all the Men of the City that were within the reach of their Fury were offer'd up a Propitiation to their Revenge for Shechem's Folly and all the Females seized on to make satisfaction for one single Dinah's Virginity And the Histories of France and Ireland will inform you how the Papists there like Simeon and Levi or the Wild Indians have Run a Muc and murder'd all that were not of the Italian Shiboleth and Complexion But the most accursed of all their exploits that ever they did or designed to do was this Project of the Powder-plot That they should conspire against a King not their enemies but their Own a King that studied their Friendship and had like to have paid for it too a King of their own Religion or of that Religion which they profess and ought to be a Christian and with him the Royal Branches the hopes of the Succession the Nobles and Judges of the Land the Fathers of the Church the Representatives of the People the Government the Strength the Religion of the Nation to Confound them all in a Moment that they might never see nor live to ask who hurt them This was the greatest Master-piece of Treason that ever the Reprobate Wit of Man projected Cursed be their Anger for it was fierce and their Wrath for it was cruel We can make no better Application of this than what Jacob did of the Treachery of his Sons O my Soul come not thou into their secret unto their Assembly mine Honour be not thou united Which is both a