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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25313	A præfatory discourse to a late pamphlet entituled, A memento for English Protestants, &c. being an answer to that part of the Compendium which reflects upon the Bishop of Lincoln's book : together with some occasional reflections on Mr. L'Estrange's writings.	Amy, S.	1681 (1681)	Wing A3032; ESTC R16932	26,021	36

take this occasion to inform the ignorant Reader for none else can need it how much the Monarchy has gotten by the Reformation in point of Civil Advantage and consequently how great a Loser it will be every way if by some fatal Infatuation any Successor of his Majesty should again bring the Crown and the Nation under the Romish Yoke that worse than Aegyptian Darknesse and Slavery which neither our Fathers nor We are able to beare In the first place the The Monarchy has by the Reformation gotten an absolute Freedom from the Tyranny of the Popes Spiritual Supremacy and his pretended Temporal Power in ordine ad Spiritualia to which it was before subject and in persuance of which several of our Kings have been summon'd to appear personally at Rome and King John forc'd to resigne his Crowne to a Legate to the high Dishonour of the Regal Majesty and the apparent Prejudice of that Reverence it ought to have in the mindes of the People Nay further all that Part of the Pope's Spiritual Power which was either Necessary or useful for the Government of the Church is by the Reformation become the King's so that no Authority but God Almighty's is now above him nor any in England independent of him He is equally Head both of the Church the State No Appeales can be made from his Courts nor any sort of Persons priviledg'd from his Justice In a word He is no longer a Feauditary Vassall to the Popes as in effect all Popish Princes are since the Pope has an allow'd Right to command them in whatever he will call Spirituall or will say has any relation to Spiritual Matters and by declaring them Hereticks he can according to the Romish Religion depose them and destroy them when he pleases Now the being deliver'd from such a low unworthy Servitude and the acquiring such a large Increase both of Honour and Power is certainly no small addition to the Monarchy yet this it has gotten purely by the Reformation Secondly The Monarchy has by the Reformation gotten a greater Security than it had before both for the King's Person and his Crowne those Hellish Papal Doctrines which I have been hitherto discoursing off did in times of Popery perpetually hang over their Heads like Damocles's Sword ready to doe Execution upon the least irregular Motion and they were neither of them any longer safe than the Pope pleas'd But since the Reformation the Popes Excommunications and Bulls of Deposition are of no Force and can have little effect in England some they will have while Papists are suffered to live among us and by enjoying Estates to have an Interest in the Kingdom as the present popish PLOT does but too plainly prove however by many degrees less than if Popery were again the establish'd Religion so that I say The King of England has by meanes of the Protestant Religion at least a greater Security for his Life and his Crown than he had before an absolute one he must not expect while he has any popish Subjects Thirdly The Monarchy has by the Reformation gotten to the King of England the Government of all English men of what Order or Profession soever which heretofore he had not the Ciergy being exempt from the Civil Jurisdiction and depending chiefly on the Pope who bestow'd most of the Bishopricks and great Benefices both for Protection and Preferment the King had little power either to punish or reward them as the Historyes and Records of those times do sufficiently demonstrate But 't is notoriously knowne to what a degree the Reformation has alter'd the state of things in that point and how much the Interests of Clergy men do now tye them more than others to the Service of the Crowne as also how well they undestand and how zealously they pursue those Interests whenas heretofore they were the constant Raisers of Factions against their Princes in favour of Rome and obstinate maintainers of the Pope's Encroachments upon their Regal Rights Nay the Laity themselves were the Pope's Subjects in Spiritual matters and for the most Part wholely guided by their Priests the Pope's Dependants by Reason of the great command they had over their Consciences in their Civil concernes also Soe that the King under these and other circumstances of Popery was but a Servant to the Church and little more in Effect than the Popes Vice-Roy But the Reformation has freed both him and his people from this base dishonorable Subjection aud most inconvenient Dependance on a foreign Power These are things which all the World must acknowledge to be very considerable in themselves and very great acquisitions to the Monarchy yet are they such as have naturally and necessarily fallen into it upon the establishment of Protestant Religion in the room of Popery and that too as 't is this particular form of Government call'd a Monarchy distinguish'd from all other Kindes if I should take notice of the Advantages it has receiv'd by this change as 't is a Civil Government in general I might observe many more as first an Increase of the Trade and consequently of the Riches of the Kingdom as well by the taking away that vast number of unnecessary sencelesse Holydaies impos'd on the People by the Church of Rome which must needs be a great hinderance to the carrying on of publick Business and Commerce as by the application of many Thousands of Persons to the waies and means of raising a Fortune to maintain themselves who were heretofore maintain'd and liv'd wholely like idle Drones upon the labour and industry of others and by being shut up in a Cloyster and sequestred from the common Employments of other men were made every way useless Members of the State and a burden to it Secondly Another advantage the Monarchy consider'd in the general as a body Politick has receiv'd by this Change is an Increase of the Strength and Safety of the Kingdom by the great Increase of People which also alwayes increases Trade since the Clergy have been allow'd to marry and the Folly of Monkery and Vowes of pepetual Caelibacy as they call it in either Sex has been both forbidden and scorn'd 'T were easy for me to enlarge upo this Argument and further shew how friendly an Institution and how highly serviceable the Protestant Religion when rightly understood is to the Civil Interests both of this and all other Kingdomes and States as well by the great gentleness and moderation of her external Discipline as by the peaceable temper and Loyalty of her Doctrines And that on the other side Popery does not only make the Prince himself a Dependant and unsafe but his people few ignorant and poor She robbes him first of his Authority and then of his Subjects her Monasteries decoy the zealous her Inquisitions drives away the wise and both together enslave and beggar the foolish Issachars that stay behend to bow down their servile shoulders to the Burden of an oppressive Government But I think what I