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A30250	Another sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, November the fifth, 1641 by Cornelius Burges, D.D. ; wherein, among other things, are shewed a list of some of the popish traytors in England.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5668; ESTC R21418	55,204	69

but only to give a short Catalogue of the Chiefe Actors in them leaving the rest to Historians who have reported them to the World I know it goes for current that the Papists of England were quiet enough for the first 11. yeeres of Queen Elizabeth before any Lawes were made against them And indeed in comparison of after times this may be in part admitted to be true Howbeit in those first yeeres many of them went over Sea and there laid the foundation of future mischiefes here There were others at home that held strict intelligence with those abroad doing that more secretly which afterwards was more openly pursued and avowed It is true that while Paul the Fourth and Pius the Fourth sate Popes their unwillingnesse to make disturbance here held our Papists in more quiet Yet when Pius 4. dispatched a Nuncio to Queene Elizabeth Paul 4. was Pope when Q. El●z came to the Crown Pius 4. succeeded next and sate t●ll the Seventh of her Reigne Continuat of Martins history at the yeere 1561. out of Cambden their friend with a kinde message as he took it his Nuncio could not be admitted to enter England because so many bred up to the Popish Religion laboured to make troubles both at home and abroad And this happened about the Fourth of her Reigne And if you doe but remember from Whom the Guises then procured the French King to claime the English Diademe and sollicited the Pope to excommunicate the Queen as did the Count of Foria at Rome in behalf of his Master the Catholike King about the same time and that divers English Papists had applied themselves to those Princes to assist in reducing the Romish Religion here You will finde they had no great cause to boast of their loyaltie Especially if you consider that Arthur Pole and his Brethren had no small party among the Papists here at home to assist in that horrible Treason against his Sovereigne for which hee and others were after arraigned and condemned But when Pius the Fifth the next Pope mounted the Chaire our Romanists began to be more active and bold For when once his turbulent disposition was knowne the Popish Party by the helpe of Cardinal Alan first obtained a Colledge for English Seminary Priests at Doway Anno. 1568. which indeed proved the seminary of all the Treasons and Rebellions which after followed That Colledge was after multiplied into two one at Rhemes set up by the Guises the other at Rome erected by Gregory 13. Anno 1580. after Requesenius Governour of the Low Countries under the King of Spaine had thrust them out of their first Nest at Doway And from these places were they upon all occasions sent hither to poyson the Subjects with Principles of Treason which every yeere produced much trouble and danger No sooner were they warme in their first Cells at Doway but Pius 5. Excommunicated Q. Elizab. at Rome absolving all her subjects and cursing all that should longer obey her An 1569. After which exploit he sent over his Bull Declaratory thereof by Morton an English fugitive who bringing it to Ridolf a Florentine divers Copies of it were first secretly scattered among our Papists and then the Breve it selfe fixed on the Gate of London-House By which time the Priests and other active Factors for Babylon had wrought farre upon sundry Nobles and Gentlemen of great place whom they either found or could make discontented with the present Religion Government or State of things or whom they discerned to bee ambitiously affected or most apt for intelligence with forraign Princes that either maligned our Religion envied our Prosperitie or cunningly endeavored to possesse themselves of this Crowne which have been the destruction of many a Noble Spirit and the ruine of many Ancient Families of this Kingdome Among the many Examples of this kind may be reckoned up the Rebellion of the unhappy Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland and sundry other their Complices as the first poysoned fruit of the Popes Bull in the same yeere wherein it was heer scattered among the Papists And from the said cursed fountaine issued all those bitter streames of Treasons of Stukely in Ireland at the same time of the Stanlies in Darbyshire of Iohn Trogmorton and Brooke of Sanders and Bristow of the Nortons Barne and Mather of Doctor Story the persecuting Civilian of Shirwin Parsons Campian and Kirby and many other Priests and Jesuites to the number of above 120. of Somervile and his adherents of Mayne Nelson Tompson and the rest of that Crue of Payne and his 50. Resolutes hired by the Pope to murder the Queen of Francis Throgmorton Paget and Englefeild of bloody Parry of some inveigled Nobles of Babbington Tichborne and the rest of that pack of the same Babington Charnock and Savage in a second Devilish Designe of Lopez of Stanly of Cullen of York and Williams of Creswell who in his Philopater and of Parsons that in his Doleman fomented that Treason of Stanly and the rest of Squire of Garnet Winter See Stat of 3 Jac. 2. Caresby Tresham and others who in the last yeere of Queen Elizabeth travailed with the King of Spaine to joyne with the Papists in England to depose the Queen and to extirpate Religion beside many moe that never came to light Nor did their rage die with that Lady but so soone as King James came among us Watson and Clerk found a way to instill Treason into sundry Nobles and Gentlemen against the King and Prince before the Coronation And for a Coronis of all the Salt-Peter men in the Gunpowder Treason of which I have spoken before can not be forgotten I spare to speake of their continuall Treasons and Rebellions in Ireland or of that memorable Designe in 88. which however it was attempted by Spaine yet all men know the fast tie betweene our Papists and the Spaniard their continuall correspondencies and combinations with him and the thundering Bull of Pope Sixtus Quintus then sent abroad for confirmation of the severall Bulls made by his Predecessors Pius 5. and Gregory * He held consultation with Spaine to invade England and Ireland both together An. 1576. His aime was to make his base Son James Boncampagno Marques of Vineola King of Ireland Excellent zeal in a Pope not to gain soules to Christ but a Kingdome for his owne Bastard 13. against Queene Elizabeth to the end our Papists might more cheerfully assist in that bloody Enterprise and none dare to adhere to her against a forreign Enemie Nay let me adde that even now while this very Parliament is sitting and Papists Petitioning * See their printed Petit. in the Dial. betvveen a Parliament man and a Catholike for indulgence and libertie and for taking away the Lawes made against them neither England Scotland nor Ireland have been free from desperate Conspiracies and Treasons wherein sundry of their Party have been principall Actors What should I tell you of the Designes upon the

all this Are we not a sinfull unthankfull stubborne People as ever tasted of mercy a seed of evill Doers that call God t Ier. 3.4.5 Father and yet doe as evill things as we can And yet for all this God hath opened his hand wider than ever we opened our mouths and crowned all our yeares and dayes with such loving kindnesse and mercy as never any Nation under Heaven received greater or enjoyed longer If therefore David upon the bare promise of a mercy could not but sit downe before the Lord as one in an Extasie crying out Who am I O Lord and what is my Fathers House that thou hast brought me hitherto How much more would our spirits be lifted up beyond all expression to glorifie his Great Name for so great a mercy actually conferred when we consider who and what we are that doe receive it 3. The deliverance is extraordinary 3. Look upon the Deliverance it selfe as extraordinary All the g Psal 111.2 Works of the Lord are great yet some greater than others But this is no lesse than the raysing up of a whole Kingdome from the dead For as h Heb. 11.17 Abraham is said to have received his Isaac from death in a figure when Isaac had been bound on the wood and the hand of his owne Father stretched out to kill him so wee in this Deliverance received our King Queen and Prince that then were our King that now is our Parliament Lawes Liberties Lives and Religion it selfe from the dead in a figure when all these were so neere to destruction that there was scarce a step between them and death and such a step as had been easily made had not the Lord to whom belong the issues from death stept in to prevent it 4. And altogether unexspected 4. Take this with you too that this great Deliverance was a mercy altogether unexspected For who apprehended any danger The work was so strange as wee could hardly credit when we saw it done It was with us as with Zion * Psal 126.1 When the Lord turned her Captivitie by Cyrus the Persian Wee were like men that dreame we could scarce trust our owne eyes to behold it or our tongues to proclaime it Men gazed on each other as people amazed And when the thing was found to be so indeed oh how our hearts glowed our affections fired our hayre stood upright our eyes sparkled our joynts trembled our spirits even failed with us to behold the wonder And then oh what might not God at that time have had from us Let him therefore not goe away now with lesse seeing his Mercy even that Mercy endures for ever to our benefit and comfort 5. Behold the Love of God in it 5. And all this as a fruit of his Love makes all to be yet more precious to a thankfull spirit i Isay 43.4 I have Loved thee therefore will I give men for thee and people for thy life saith the Lord. If men yea if a whole Nation conspire against thy life he will redeem thee from that danger with the price of all theirs Hence it is even from his Love that he no sooner espies any enemies out against us but he armes presently as against enemies to himselfe and not onely Layes them at his own feet but even at k 2 Sam 22.41 Rom. 16.20 ours and gives us to wash our feet in the bloud of the wicked 6. Consider God hath gotten him honour 6. God hath gotten him praise from the wicked that sought our destruction and raysed himselfe a praise out of the very rage of those who sought our destruction and shall he not have it from those who enjoy this miraculous Preservation Shall he have it from his enemies and goe without it from his Servants and Friends The Lord forbid But oh farre and for ever farre be such neglect from every of You who being the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof ought of all others to triumph in his praise for these works of his hands It was a foule Blot to the Elders of Judah that after David was freed of the Rebellion of Absolom they who were * 2 Sam. 19.11 12. his brethren his bones and his flesh should be last in bringing back the King to his House But much greater would the staine and the sinne be in You the Elders of our Jsrael unto whom the Lord himselfe upon the same grounds that he hath elsewhere said l Psal 82.6 Yee are Gods now saith Yee are my brethren yee are my bones and my flesh should have cause to adde Wherefore then are yee the Last to bring the King back Why are You so backward to restore unto Him all that honour that so many Absoloms and sonnes of Rebellion have taken from Him Well If you be not first nay if You outstrip not all others in the Duty of Praise for so great a Deliverance from the rage of man 3. Observation You must exspect no lesse Wrath to break out from the Lord upon your selves and the Kingdome than befell Hezekiah and all Judah for m 2 Chro. 32.25 not rendring to the Lord according to a farre lesse benefit done unto him There be divers other excellent Vses of this comfortable Doctrine but I must lay them all by for haste to the Last Point which is this The third Observation The Experience of Gods over-ruling and mastering the rage of man in times past is an undoubted assurance of the like for all to come This Point so clearely grounded on the Text which speaks of future Deliverances built upon former mercies and so strongly bound downe with a confident asseveration in the front that surely it shall be even so I shall passe over with a light foot Nothing more common in Scripture than to conclude what God will ever doe from what once he hath done David even in his youth could be confident of this n 1 Sam. 17.37 The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the Lyon and out of the paw of the Beare he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine And afterwards when that unnaturall Rebellion of Absolom brake out so violently as made Hierusalem too hot for David 2 Sam. 15. causing him to flee whither he could by the way of the Wildernes yet even then after God upon his prayer had spoken comfort to him from experience of former deliverances David growes so secure that he that before durst not stay in his owne house for danger professeth now to o Psal 3.4 lie downe and sleep where he hath not an house wherein to put his head and he that durst not tarry in Jerusalem with all the power he could rayse against his sonne now professeth in a wild howling desolate Wildernes p Vers 5. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against mee round about Thus let God doe but any thing

an execution by fire not from heaven but from hell not by Apostles but by Apostats not upon Hereticks but upon sound Professors of his Truth not by Iames and John whom he dearly loved but upon Samaritans whom all Gods people had cause to hate but by Samaritans Priests and Jesuites Traitors and Rebells abhorred of God and man upon Iames Iohn very Pillars of the Church upon the Lords Annointed upon the Assembly of all the Estates of the Kingdom Sober Modern Papists thēselves are ashamed of this in behalf of those furious Ones of their own Party who cannot blush Nay I appeal from Garnet to Garnet from Garnet sleeping to Garnet waking from his sleeping Conscience consulted to approve it to his Conscience awakened when he was upon the Scaffold to be executed for it When the Question was first put to him by Catesby Whether it were lawfull in some Case to destroy the innocent with the guilty This Good a Widdrington ubi supra Father so soone as he apprehended the Conspirator to be in earnest peremptorily resolved that no doubt it was if the good comming by it might make compensation for the losse of their lives So that with him b Rom. 3.8 Let us doe evill that good may come thereof was good Doctrine though S. Paul disclaim'd it But when he came to die Conscience compelled him to change his note Then he confessed to a Noble c E. of Manch to whom Garnet confessed M●rtis sententiam justissimè in cum fuissè pronunciatam c. Lord yet living that for concealing this Treason the sentence of death was just upon him And being led to the side of the scaffold to satisfie the people hee as * Me in Regem peccasse confiteor quod mihi est de●ori quoad mali conscius fui scil in reticendo Et hoc nomine veniam a Regia Majestate supplex pe●o Machinatio contra Regem regnum sanguinolenta erat quamque si pe●acta fuisset ego ipse in imis sensibus toto animo de●esta●u●●s erum Dole● sane maxime peracerbe fe●o Catholicos tam atrox immanc facinus suscepisse Ibid. Widdrington reports him freely said I confesse I have offended against the King which is now my griefe in that I was guilty of this Treason in concealing of it for which I humbly crave pardon of his Majestie The Conspiracie against the King and Kingdome was bloody and had it been executed I my selfe should have abhorr'd it from the secrets of my heart and with all my soule And verily it is my greatest griefe and with much bitternesse I feele it that Catholikes undertooke such a cruell and outragious Villany And upon th Gallowes * Eosque adhorto ne ejusmodi proditionibus rebellionibus contra Regē se ●mmesceant ibid. inf●a hee exhorted all Catholikes that they would never more have hand in such Treasons and Rebellions against their Soveraigne Thus farre our first Vse the next is this Learne hence what to expect as from all wicked men in general so from all the brood that be Agents and Factors for Rome in particular whether Lay or Ecclesiastique r Never expect better from them Regular or Secular to the end of the world Surely no better than from the rageing Sea when it cannot rest Nothing but rage and wrath Conspiracie and crueltie Treason and Rebellion so often as power and opportunitie meet Whether q Prov. 29.9 they rage or laugh there is no rest s Mic. 7.2.3 c. They all lie in wait for blood they hunt every man his brother with a net that they may doe evill with both hands earnestly the Prince * Witnesseth Pope and other his Adherents asketh and the Iudge judgeth for reward and the Great man uttereth his mischievous desires so they wrap it up The best of them is a briar the most upright is sharper than a thorny hedge c. Therefore trust yee not in a friend put ye no confidence in a guid keep the doores of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosome if this way addicted What then should you listen to any of their Syrens songs for abrogation or mitigation of the Lawes made against them for toleration of their Religion or for trusting of them as some would perswade They are no Changelings Can the Ethiopian change his skinne or the Leopard his spots t Jer. 13.23 then may they also doe good that are accustomed to doe evill I urge this the rather at this time not only because the very Deliverance which wee this day celebrate rings loud in your cares neither to trust nor tolerate them any longer and strongly moves for a Ne admittas against them but because also even during this very Parliament you find the old spirit of rage and trechery walking too openly and boldly among them and too often pressing too neere upon you Let it not move you that now they are in a Petitioning veine and seem to Petition for some indulgence professing all Loyalty For just so they gave out while they were preparing their materialls for the Gun-powder Treason then they would Petition for a Toleration of Religion Comming they are to manage their Cause and means they have more than ordinary to advance their Party the more reason you should have a more vigilant eye and a more active hand over them to secure the King and the Royall Seed Religion your selves and the Kingdomes against all their machinations The better to quicken this Care in you I shall humbly leave with you these Foure Remembrancers First That they have never been quiet but continually contriving of Treasons ever since the Reformation of Religion Secondly That this practice is not from the Lawes made against them * See Discourse of the Powder-Treason in K. Iames his Works but their very Religion it selfe leades them unto it Thirdly That their Priests are bound to infuse these principles of their Religion into them and to presse the use of them upon all occasions Fourthly That to induce their Disciples to swallow those Principles and accordingly to act them when occasion serveth they propound great rewards and glory to such as shall attempt them and defend and magnifie those who have formerly miscarried in them Each of these I shall now make good unto you in order with some enlargement I. They have never rested from plotting of Treason since the Reformation 1. They have never been quiet but alwayes hammering and contriving or solliciting and driving on desperate Plotts and conspiracies to destroy their Sovereigne to abolish Religion to subvert the Lawes and to expose the Kingdoms to a prey of any forreigne Enemie that would lend them either aide or countenance ever since the happy Reformation of Religion in the glorious Reigne of Queen Elizabeth unto this very day It is not my purpose nor will it suit with the short limits of a Sermon to make a relation of the Treasons themselves