and Determination of Heaven, where it flood Recorded in the Books of Eternity, That his Sceptre fhould be an everlasting Sceptre, and his Dominion endure throughout all Generations. This mad Decree then could onely thew the folly and impiety of these Rebellious Citizens : for the King whom they rejected did Reign over them. 1. In his Mercies, in the Converfion of 3000 of them at one Sermon of St. Peter's their Prime Apostle, and Principal Teacher. 2. In Judgment, at his fecond Advent, but first Eminent judicial Return, after his Glorious Installment in his far Country; in the Deftruction of Jerufalem, when thefe Rebellious Citizens, or their Descendents fuffered all the Extremities of temporal Calamities. 3. He fhall Reign over them at his third and laft terrible Advent, when He shall come with all the Solemnities of Majefty to judge the world, pronounce Sentence upon these wicked Citizens, and make them the Vaffals of Eternal Vengeance, the certain Doom of all unrepenting Rebels.

From this fhort Illuftration of the Text I hope it appears how well it fuits with the Business of the Day, a Day of Publick Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of his Majefty, His Royal Brother, and the whole Government from the Hellish Confpiracy of Fanatical Republican Rage.

I fhall therefore, 1. Shew the Hatred of these Citizens to Monarchical Government in General.

2. Infift on the feveral ways they pursued in the carrying on this damnable Conspiracy in Particular.

3. Take notice that when these fail'd, like the Defperate Citizens in the Text, they betook themselves to defperate means, and wickedly refolv'd that the King fhould not Reign over them.

4. And lastly, fhew the folly and impiety of fuch

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mad Refolves, for the King whom they devoted to Destruction does and fhall Reign over them.

First, The Hatred of these Citizens to Monarchical Government in General. You have been already told that the Jews were always a Rebellious Generation, but never fo bad, as when the Pharisees had got so much the afcendent over them. I am forry to tell you that the frequent Tumults and Infurrections which have infested the Reigns of our British Kings gave occafion to that Sarcastical faying; Rex Angliæ, Rex Diabolorum ; but you may tell your felves that these Devils never acted more like Devils, than fince they were poffefs'd and guided by the Turbulent Spirit of our Modern Pharifees the Presbyterians; who are the very Citizens that from their first Institution have fhewn their Hatred against Monarchs and Monarchy. And they must be content, which perhaps they Glory in, to bear a Principal part in most of the unnatural Wars and Commotions, which have happen'd in Chriftendom, fince they took upon them to carry on their Bleffed Work of Reformation. The rest of the Schifmaticks are but their Spawn, and confequently included in this Denomination, though like a Cadmean Progeny, they have always fought against ane another. And to the eternal honour of Presbytery acco be it spoken, that John Calvin confirm'd his Difcipline Mainburg the fame the fame year, that Ignatius Loyala, the firft Founder of We Great the Jefuits, was chofen their first General in a folemn Histo: Victio: manner; and that as He Founded his Presbytery in Treafon and Rebellion, the Citizens having prepar'd his way by expelling from Geneva their Lawfull Prince and Governour, which violent Act was encourag'd, approved and confirm'd by Calvin, fo has it ever fince been carried on by Schifm and Sedition. Never was it receiv'd into any Church, but it presently diffolv'd the Catholick Unity of Faith, and broke the Bond of Peace;

never

never into any State which it did not embroil and throw into very dangerous Convulfions; never into any family which it did not divide, and fet at variance; never did it get poffeffion of any fingle man, whom it did not ftrangely transform with Pride and Moroseness, made him unfit for civil Society and common converfatior. Are not the Writings of the Leaders in this Schifm, not onely stuff't with irreverent and reproachfull Language against the Sacred Perfons of Princes, but likewife with dethroning Principles, and King-killing Doctrines ? witness feveral paffages in Calvin's Inftitutions, and cther his Works. That peftilent Pamphlet entituled Junius Brutus or Vindica contra Tyrannos, fuppofed to be written by Beza, his Succeffor; and to mention no more, Knox's Appellation to the Communality, and Buchanan's Jus Regni apud Scotos; a Book which for fubtlety and wicked pofition fcorns to give place to the Jefuit, which nevertheless He had the impudence to dedicate to King James.

In thefe you may find Dignities evil spoken of, Majefty reviled: that a Sovereignty is erected either in the People, or the fubordinate Magistrate, that they are the Original of all just Power, that the Supreme Magiftrate is prostituted to their Lufts, that wicked and irriligious Kings, i. e. all whom they pleafe to call fo, may be queftion'd, and confequently dethron'd, sentenc'd and put to Death. If it be faid that these are but the Doctrines of private men, and therefore unjustly chargeable upon the whole Order; I answer, that Calvin and Beza were more than Private men, they were leading Foundation Apostles, their Authority was as great, and held as Infallible at Geneva, as ever the Pope's was at Rome. BeB

fides,

fides, this is the very fame argument which the Papists ufe to clear their Church from the Guilt and Scandal of Bellarmine, Mariana, Santarellus, or any other depofing King-killing Jefuit. For we do not find that the dethroning Power, which these frontless Flatterers have feated in the Pope, is either made an additionalArticle to Pius's Creed, or trick't into the Canons of the later Editions of the Council of Trent: befides, this Depofing Principle of the Jefuits, has been publickly cenfured and condemn'd as erroneous and impious infeveral Foreign Universities, written against by Men of the Romish Communion, and is moft folidly and unanfwerably confuted by Barclay in his excellent Book de Poteftate Papæ, &c. which book is dedicated to Clement the Eighth. But have the Presbyterians in any of their Synods cenfured or condemn'd the pernicious Tenets of Calvin or Beza? has any of them had the Grace to difown or write against their dethroning Doctrines? if they have, their Books have proved very ineffectual, for if we pass from their Principles to their Practices, we fhall find that the Presbyterian has always been a Turbulent Imperious Bloudy Religion: that it has embroyl'd all the Kingdoms and Estates in Christendom, where it got footing, with Rebellion, Civil War and Mifery, from its first Rife at Geneva, to its remove into France, from thence into the Netherlands, from thence into Scotland, and from Scotland to its unfortunate Arrival into this Island. 'Tis not expected I fhould enumerate the feveral wicked Plots and Designs of these Hypocrites, during the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles. This is the business of an Historian,and is already faithfully done to our hands, Hist of us by the Reverend Dr. Heylin, and others, who have bytery from its Rise to the Civil Wars. Kisa

writ

writ the Hiftories of Presbytery and Calvinifm. Ithall onely at prefent lay to their Charge all the Bloud that was fhed, all the violence that was acted, during our late unnatural Wars: that they were the Dethroners and Murtherers of their Glorious Sovereign under a cloak of Justice, and Mock-formalities of Law. A Villany of fo deep a Dy, that the Roman Conclave blushes at it, and was never debated and refolved, but in the Deep Infernal Councels of a Presbyterian Confiftory. And is there not at this day great reafon to charge them home with this Masterpiece of all Iniquity, fince they have taken fuch great Advantage of the late Popish Plot, that the guilty Papifts had almost made them innocent? and there have not been wanting fome Church-Trimmers, ftill retaining a fellow-feeling for the Caufe, who from the Pulpit have endeavour'd to clear them, and lay the Guilt of that Horrid Murther chiefly upon the Popish Priests; though they cannot find the name of one Papift in the whole Lift of true Proteftant Regicides. But fuppofing the Jefuits did invent and direct in the Tiring Room, what they acted on the open Stage: This will be fo far from excufing, that it adds to their Crime, and makes them pafs for what they would be loth to be thought, fools as well as fomething else. For no man dares fay a Presbyterian is the lefs dangerous for being influenc'd and guided by Jefuitical Counfels. May we not now expofe their Bloudy and Treasonable Practices to the world, fince almost five and thirty years have expired, fince the perpetration of that execrable Parricide, and they have not yet Repented? Since almoft four and twenty years have run out, fince His Majefty's Happy Reflauration, whom shefe abandon'd Citizens forc't into