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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29628	The original of plotts, or, Some seasonable reflections upon the late horrid fanatick conspiracy in a sermon preached at St. Maries in Dover, on Sunday September 23, 1683 / by James Brome ...	Brome, James, d. 1719.	1684 (1684)	Wing B4859; ESTC R37479	17,435	30

goods and revenues and though one poor small Ceremony might by no means go down for fear of choaking them yet a Bishoprick would certainly have been a very pleasant morsell for a break-fast for Church-lands never yet came within their motion of Sacrilege and though decimating and sequesting and plundring was out of fashion it had been a Trade which prov'd formerly so beneficiall to the Saints that they began to grow bigg with hope of renewing the Monopoly In fine Dagon must down for Kingly Power grew burthensom and the Lords were become useless and the Bishops dangerous and we had nothing left amongst us but through pac'd Judges and Evil Counsellours and Flattering Divines buisy and designing Papists and French Councills and since the Ministers of State were inexcuseable and deserved all the fury as one of the Hellish Agents speaks which must one time or other be let lose upon them now was the time for the True Protestant Flails and other new Instruments of Torture to flye about their Bones and take Vengeance of Gods because their reputed Enemies But Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us over as a Prey unto their Teeth Our soul is escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowler the Snare is broken and we are delivered and our help standeth yet in the Name of the Lord who hath made Heaven and Earth And so from the Plott it self I shall proceed to the second thing and consider the grounds and Original of this and all other Plotts and Conspiracies in the World which I shall resolve into three general Causes And first they are occasioned by spreading dangerous Positions and Seditious Principles amongst the Multitude For when the People are taught that they are the Supream Power and all civil Authority is derived originally from them that there is a mutual compact between a Prince and his Subjects and that if he perform not his Duty they are dischar ged from theirs why 't is only giving out that the Prince hath forfeited his Trust and is accountable for the breach of that power with which he was Entrusted and then the next thing by course follows to depose or Murder him and he falls justly too by the Sword for those which they call his Crimes and Misdemeanours Again what greater Encouragement can possibly be given to conspire against a Government and contrive its utter Subversion then when men are told publickly that self preservation is such a fundamental Law of Nature as superseeds the Obligation of all others which stand in competition with it and that it is Lawfull for their own defence and the defence of their Religion to enter into what Leagues Covenants or Associations they please even against the will and consent of the Supream Magistrate And can there be any higher incentive to Rebellion in the world then to Preach amongst the Rabble that the Doctrine of the Gospel concerning patient suffering of injuries is not incompatible with taking up Arms against our Government and that Resistance of Superiours is a thing very lawfull where our Rights and Liberties are invaded by them Nay once more when Rebellion grows prosperous and Conspiracies are Crown'd with success when Victory flyes to the sides of Oppressours and Kings are led in triumph for a spectacle to the Multitude tell the People but then as it was taught them in the late Warrs that Possession and Strength give a right to Govern and success in a cause or enterprize proclaim it to be lawfull and just and to pursue it is to comply with the will of God because it is to follow the conduct of his Providence and I defye any better method to instigate them afresh then this will prove for it pusheth them forward upon new attempts and it makes them so daring and desperate in that Cause which they believe God himself hath own'd so providentially that they will Caball and Plott and Mutiny and Fight against all who shall oppose them in their Resolves and Designs being still flush'd with hopes of a glorious success and tha t God will never desert that People or that cause for which once he did so signally interpose his mighty Providence Thus where men have once suck'd in such dangerous principles as these they scruple not to act according to those Principles and they must needs prove very pernitious in order to the undermining the Peace and prosperity of that State where they are entertain'd because they are the very bane of all Obedience and Loyalty and transform men into such horrid monsters of Anarchy and Rebellion as are unfit to live in any Christian Community being like the Plague that poisons all places with their infectious Contagion as wee have felt by too woefull experience in these three flourishing Kingdoms Secondly nothing doth more occasion mischieveous Plotts and Conspiracies then needless fears and jealousies about Religion and Government till but the People in plausible cant that the King is setting up for Tyranny and Arbitrary Government and that he is resolved to Sacrifice all their lives and liberties to his unbounded ambition and avarice though above twenty years experience doth fully attest the contrary a Reign where Law and Justice were never stretch'd unless to mercy and indulgence a Reign where too easie forgiveness and receiving his pardon'd Enemies the warm ungratefull snakes too near into the bosom of Majesty and too high into his trust and honours has been the only fault in his Throne yet this imaginary Leviathan of arbitrary power shall raise such panick fears that those very shadows and Chimaera's like so many Igens fatui shall mislead deluded ignorance into distraction and rebellion whilst the great Knaves trail the Carrion and the little Fools hunt after as one Phraseth it wittily to this purpose Again let it be but given out though with all the incoherencys and absurditys imaginable that the Pope is advancing with his Holy Banners into this Kingdom and is resolv'd to make a reprizal of all his lost ground amongst us tell them that the Bishops are Pensioners to his Holyness and are resolv'd to open both their Churches and Treasuries to readmit his Sacred Train 't is not all these mens Protestations or Tests discourses writings and Sermons can be able to undisguise the deluded rabble or gain them any reverence from these their profess'd Enemies but they must be hollowed out of the World with the common crye of the multitude Away with these fellows it is not fit that they should live thus Christ must suffer by the decree of the Pharisees least Heathen Rome prevail and the Romans come and take away both their place and Nation though the very death of Christ brought in the Romans to destroy them and the Church of England must be voted down by our Pharisaical Dissenters least that proving an inlet to Popery the modern Romanists by that means take an occasion to root them out when indeed the case is plain that if ever they should again