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The speech of Charles Trinder, recorder of Gloucester at his entrance upon that office, January the 8th, 1687/8.
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Trinder, Charles.
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1688
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Wing T2283; ESTC R37902
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their matter For in the 31st of his Reign it is Enacted That If any hold that in the Sacrament of the Altar there is not present the Natural Body and Bloud of our Saviour born of the Blessed Virgin or that any substance of Bread and Wine romains after Consecration he shall be Burnt and otherwise forfeit as in case of High Treason If any hold Communion under both Kinds necessary or that Priests or Religious may Marry or oppose private Masses or deny Auricular Confession or if a Priest or Religious Person Marry they shall suffer Death and forfeit as in the case of Felony And by these Antiprotestant-Tests very many well-meaning persons no doubt were violently hurried out of their Lives and Fortunes with as much I would say with as little Reason and Justice as they have been of late For setting aside on which part the Truth of those points did lie men being left to their own private Interpretation of Scripture exempted from all Authority of the Church how could they ever bring themselves to believe what they could not find in their own Sense of Scripture-Words or why should they be forced to become Hypocrites and pretend to believe what they did not Again by a Statute of 32 of Hen. 8. it was Enacted that all Decrees and Ordinances which according to God's Word should be ordained in matters of Faith and Religion by the Bishops and others thereto appointed by the King's Letters Pattents should be obeyed and believed by all the King's Subjects The King in whom then rested the final result of all Controversies in Religion would no doubt ever Judge all his own Decrees to be according to God's Word So here was an Implicite Faith to be yeilded not onely to what the King then had but to whatever more he should hereafter decree A Burden sure too heavy for any man that had any sence of any Religion at all In the 24 and 25 of the same King it was Enacted That all English Bibles of Tyndal 's Translation and other English Books of Faith Religion or Scripture contrary to the Doctrine set forth since 1540. or to be set forth by the King should be Abolished None should deride or despise such Doctrine none shall retain Books for Maintenance of Anabaptism or other Books supprest or to be supprest by the King's Proclamation The Bible shall not be read in English by the common People Nothing shall be taught contrary to the King's Injunctions By a Statute of the 37 of the same King it is declared That the King hath full Authority to Correct all Heresies and Errours and to exercise all other manner of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and that the Archbishops Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Persons have no manner of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction And if so then they derive no more from Christ than what is common to the meanest Mechanick By a Statute of the 35 of the same King Power is given him to name sixteen Spiritual and sixteen Temporal Persons whom he pleased to establish all such Ecclesiastical Laws as he and they thought fit So Volatile and Floating was Religion in those days and yet every change under great Penalties to be obeyed And thus did this poor unfortunate Prince weary out himself in difficulties most insuperable to constrain by cruel Laws the Belief of his own tottering Doctrines after he had driven his Subjects from all reliance on those Established by the Church But such doings against Nature and Reason can have no longer duration than either Violence does compel or Interest bribe Obedience and therefore notwithstanding all those costly Baits of Church-Lands with which he had drawn the Nobility and Commons to a Compliance notwithstanding those many hideous Executions with which he had terrified Dissenters during his life lastly notwithstanding the careful choice and rigorous charge given to those to whose Government he committed by Testament the Minority of his Successour he is no sooner laid in his Grave but all he had done is overthrown and buried with him All I say except the Supremacy that is the Source and Fountain of all the Miseries which had already befallen the one Party and a Power of making as much Havock upon the Souls Bodies and Fortunes of the other when time should serve And accordingly by an Act of the 2 and 3 of Edward 6th reciting That the King who was then a Child had appointed certain Bishops and Learned Men to make an Vniform Order of Common-Prayer and Sacraments which says the Statute by the aid of the Holy Ghost they had done Thô very incoherent with any thing done by Henry 8. who no less pretended to the aid of the same Holy Ghost you have a new Anticatholie Test Enacted That if any refuse or use any other or speak contemptibly of this the Makers it seems were very apprehensive of being laught at for their pains they should suffer the Deprivations Forfeitures and Imprisonments in that Act appointed And this was further inforced by a Statute of the 5 and 6 of Edw. 6. which obliges all to come to Church on all Sundays and Holidays And by an Act of the 3 and 4 of Edward 6. Cap. 11. The King had power to name thirty two persons to compile such Ecclesiastical Laws as he and they thought fit And Cap. 12. To name twelve to settle the Form of Making and Consecrating Bishops and Ministers The inferences from all these Acts are so natural obvious and easie that I shall leave every man to his own Remarks on them But this again held not long for by an Act of the 1st of Queen Mary all that was done before concerning Religion was again Repealed and the Sanguinary Severities of this Queen's Reign were no less ineffectual and deplorable than those of her Father and Brother They were indeed design'd to restore that Spiritual Church Authority which when submitted to can alone prevent or heal all Dissensions about Religion but they had a quite contrary effect and left those whom they pretended to reduce in a far greater degree of horrour and aversion from all Peace and Reconciliation than they were before To her succeeded Queen Elizabeth in the Throne as she did her Brother in the Supremacy For as he a Child so now she a Woman forbidden by God's Laws so much as to speak in the Church ascends the Chair and declares her self Supreme Governour of the Church of England And by an Act of the 1st of her Reign Power is given to her and her Successors to Reform Correct and Amend all Errours Heresies Schisms and Offences After this time such an Inundation of Penal and Sanguinary Laws to compel the Worship of this Idol so set up as would require more than this whole day to enumerate But I am the more willing to instance in some of them because it was she that began to employ her Two-edged Supremacy against all sorts of Dissenters as well Protestant as Catholick and from her too exemplary zeal for Uniformity have sprung all