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A41323	A sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Patrick's Dublin, on the 5th of November, 1690 before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland / by John Finglas ...	Finglas, John, Prebend of St. Audoens, Dublin.	1690 (1690)	Wing F950; ESTC R5603	16,312	28

it on the Christians so had they prepared a Proclamation to cast it on the Puritans under which title they would have revenged it by the Massacre of all the Protestants in the Land within their reach I shall not long trouble you with a particular Narrative of this dark Conspiracy nor say much to the obscure manner of its discovery which Bellarmin himself acknowledged not to have been without a Miracle only those of you that are yet ignorant of this contrivance may know That the Pope finding that the several Plots and Conspiracies devised against Queen Elizabeth being to no purpose a little before the end of Her Reign Pope Clement the Eighth issues two Bulls one to the Catholick Nobility and Gentry of England the other to Father Garnet Provincial of the Jesuits there in which the Catholicks in England were commanded that however the Right of Succession did intitle any man to the Crown yet if he were not a Catholick that is a Papist they should not own nor receive him but with all their power hinder his comming in This Bull if not the Author yet was the main encourager of Catesby and more then probably of the rest to ingage in the Powder Plot the Hellish Treason of this Day for he and others of them having at first some scruples of the lawfulness of it consult Father Carnet and others of their Ghostly Fathers who all pronounce it lawfull and full of merit and incouraged them in it and for their further satisiaction Garnet offers to send to Rome to know the Popes express pleasure in the business but Catesby saved him the trouble by telling him he doubted not at all the Popes mind but that he who commanded our endeavours to hinder the Kings coming in is willing enough we should throw him out and if he might then lawfully be kept out he may now as lawfully be thrust out Pope Clement enjoyned the former therefore we may do the latter And thus armed with poysonous Divinity he and his followers resolve most desperatly to go on in their wicked design which the better to effect they sow up their lips swear silence and back that oath with the Sacrament Catelines immanity and inhumanity now need be no wonder he the better to strengthen his Conspiracy and carry on his design made his Soldiers pledge each other in a draught of mans blood but these drink the blood of God and as they conceive materially that they may strengthen their hands in their bloody design Pauls Enemies vowed neither to eat nor drink natural food till they had slain him these eat and drink sacramental food to speed the slaughter of thousands and among the rest of him that was more then ten thousands of us And in order to this a considerable time before the sitting of the Parliament they hyr'd a Celler adjoyning to the Parliament house and breaking through the wall of that they digged a great Vault and thereby undermined the house in that Vault were lay'd 36 Barrels of Gunpowder upon the Gunpowder were layd great heaps of Billets Fagots huge Stones Iron Crows pickaxes great Hammer heads enough to blow up or tear in pieces by relation the strongest Fort in Christendom and with these our adversaries thought to have blown up Englands strongest Fort of Religion and Justice in the destruction of the King Queen Prince Arch Bishops Bishops Nobles Judges and Commons who were to have met as on this Day in the house of Parliament and no sooner come and gathered there but should have been blown up with Gunpowder all of them to be as an Holocaust a whole burnt offering unto the Moloch of Rome Creation never saw any thing like it and indeed they mist not much of their hopes all things were in a readiness the Match was lighted and lay'd and there wanted nothing but the solemn Convention of all the States the next day for them to give fire and so destroy Head and Taile Root and Branch as the Prophet speaks which had the Prince of Darkness and these Hellish miners been able to have brought to pass the surviving persons thereabouts had seen the dreadful Image of that last and Terrible day when the Son of man shall come in flaming fire to revenge on such wicked Conspirators the contempt of his Gosple Then might they have heard lowder Cryes Screeching Howling and Lamentations then were the mournings of Hadadrimon in the valley of Megidda Then likewise might they have heard not Rachel mourning for her Children but all the Children of England mourning for their Fathers or the Chiefs of their Countries by no means to be comforted because they were not Then should Sovereign Majesty Ecclesiastical and Civil Authority publick Justice and all the honour and Power of the Kingdom been laid in the Dust or Hovering in the Air Then should the Popes Bulls have been fixed on the Gates of our chiefest Cities to expose the Lives and Estates of all that had not the mark of the Beast on their forehead to Spoyle Rapine and Destruction Good God! what an horrid and dismal time of Confusion had that been when they who alone could have preserved Order in such a hurly burly should have been all of a sudden swept away themselves But what was it that could possibly have provok'd them to such a devilish and bloody attempt was it any hard usage offered by the King or State were they hurried to the fire as in Queen Maries dayes or was there a new Inquisition erected after the manner of Spain with Racks and Tortures to rectifie them no so far from this that they were tollerated to enjoy their Liberties and Possessions grac'd with Titles of Honour living securely under the protection of the Kings Laws without any the least violence offered to any of them and yet all this and more then this was too little to oblige them when the good of the Catholick Cause came in competition strange that any thing that 's called Religion should be made a Cloak for such Bloody Treacherous and Atheistical Practices and yet saith Faux it was meerly and only for Religion and he was bound in Conscience to do it because the King was an Heretick And so much for the first thing they imagined a mischievous device The second follows but they are not able to perform which in other words we have delivered thus Let the wicked Design what they will and Plot what they can yet they shall not be able to accomplish their desire or design and to go no farther then our selves have not we ever since the Reformation found it so have any of their wicked Projects or Plots which since that time have been continually forging taken any expected success have any of their Armados or Powder Plots any of their Bulls or Curses any of their late and great endeavours attain'd the end they sought after if God as one observes hath always defeated their malicious designs and shewed by his Judgments on the Actors how much he

them asert what they will who knows not that John Hus and Jerom of Prague upon the Emperors promise and Letters of safe Conduct appeared before the Council of Constance and yet notwithstanding when they had them there they Condemned them to the fire and accordingly burnt them which the Emperor highly resenting the Council declared He was not obliged to keep his promise to them Because no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks In Queen Maryes time in England our own Chronicles tells us the Suffolk men did aid assist and advance Her to the Crown She swearing to them that they should enjoy the Liberty of the Protestant Religion But this Principle That Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks made Her not only to break Her promise but also to Imprison some of them for minding Her o' it How many fair promises did Katherine de Medicis Queen of France and her Son Charles the 9th make to the Protestants and yet this hellish Princiciple induc'd them not only to violate their promises but also under the greatest pretence of Friendship to Massacre them all at Paris Anno. 1572. Nor is this all But let them swear never so solemnly whether for performance of Fidellity to their Prince or of keeping Covenant or bargain with their Neighbour yet the Pope they hold may disolve that Oath and free them from the obligation thereof I shall give you but one instance to prove this After the He●●●sh Treason of this Day King James appointed that all Papists should swear the Oath of Allegiance but hear how the Paschenius in answer to the Kings Monitory Epistle scoffed at it as Dr. Vsher citeth him in his Sermon before the House of Commons 1620 vide in tanta astutia quanta sit simplicitas see saith he in so great craft hew great simplicity doth bewray it self When he had placed all his security in that Oath he thought he had found such a manner of Oath knit with so many circumstances that it could not with safety of Conscience by any means be disolved by any man but he could not see that if the Pope disolve that Oath all the tyings of it whither of performing Fidelity to the King or of admitting no dispensation would be disolved together yea says he I will say another thing that is more admirable You know that an unjust Oath if it be evidently known or openly declared to be such bindeth no man but is void ipso facto that the Kings Oath is unjust hath been sufficiently declared by the Pastor of the Church himself ye see therefore that the obligation thereof is vanished in smoke so that the bond which was thought by so many wise men to be of Iron is become less then of Straw Hence we may see what Trust and Credit to give to their pretences to Loyalty and their taking the Oath of Allegiance for let them pretend never so much moderation yet they acknowledg the Pope as Supreme in all Spiritual and Ecclesiastical matters and prosess obedience to him before all the world in things of that nature and when occasion serves he can relieve them from all obligations of God or Conscience of Nature and Nations so that when he is pleased to enjoyn either Treason or Rebellion a Papist being a Papist must either cast off his Allegiance or incur the Popes Curse and consequently according to them run on into certain Damnation And to make them the surer the Jesuits are obliged to inculcate their Principles of Treason into their Profelites and to stir them up upon all occasions to act it As will be evident to any who will but read the Rules of Ignatius Loyala the Father of the Jesuits and how far do they extend their Vow of biind Obedience even to the killing of Kings and raising of Treasons and Rebellions where ever they can have access In order to which their great work is to corrupt the Judgments of their followers and Instruments of Assassination and Treason with poysonous Positions touching the nature of such Arts and bribe their Consciences with strong baits of Reward and Glory proposed to all that will undertake such desperate Attempts which is a strong incentive to them for Men that are either sensible of Religion or desirous of Glory will easily be induc'd to any Attempts which is pronounc'd not only Lawful but Noble and Meritorious too especially if it be for the advancment of their Religion And their Church-mens perswasions are the more forcible by reason of the great Influence they have over Papists of both Sexes and the Power they exercise over their Consciences and the esteem and honour they have among them which makes them more apt to drink down any poysonous Principle that they insuse and so under pretence of Religion they at their pleasure involve them in desperate Treason for whether will they not lead them by Advancing the Popes Authority over all inordine ad Spiritualia and by telling them that the Protestants are a pack of Excommunicate and damnable Hereticks which all Catholicks are to look upon as such and ought to prosecute them as the Pope shall Command and Direct It would be too redious to shew how often and with what arguments they have excited their Followers to Treasons and Rebellion for what Rewards have been promised to Traytors if they do the deed and what Glory of Martyrdom they purchase in Heaven in case they miscarry is better known then I can declare I shall only mind you of that Renowned and never to be forgotten William-Prince of Orange the Grandfather of Ours and the best of Kings It pleased God to make use of Him as his Grandson amongst us to deliver the Netherlands from the Spanish Tyranny and Popish Idolatry For which the Popish Faction bearing him an implacable hatred they instigate and stir up one Joanvile to kill him and for encouraging him in this develish attempt a Fryer perswaded him that he should go invisible and to that purpose gave him some Characters in Paper and little Frogs bones and other conjurations wherewith the desperate wretch being incouraged he watched his opportunity and shot the Prince through the throat but through Gods goodness recovering of this wound they never rested till they perswaded one Gerard to make a second attempt upon him who shot him through the breast so that he presently dyed But we need not rove abroad for Foreign instances nor for practices suitable to these Principles need we go any farther then the horrid Matchless and Bloody Design of this Day such a Mischievous thing as the present age may well admire the future age will hardly belive and no former age can parallel a Treason and Cruelty so matchless as no name can fit it a Plot so odious a Tragedy so direfull a Wickedness so incomparable nay such a piece of Devilishness it self in the abstract that the actors if it had been effected would not have own'd it but as Nero after he had set Rome on fire fathered