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book_n	administration_n	prayer_n	sacrament_n	2,563	5	7.2488	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47873	Interest mistaken, or, the Holy cheat proving from the undeniable practises and positions of the Presbyterians, that the design of that party is to enslave both king and people under the masque of religion : by way of observation upon a treatise, intitutled, The interest of England in the matter of religion, &c. / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1661 (1661)	Wing L1262; ESTC R41427	86,066	191

Ceremonies properly sacred the Injunction of the Cross in Baptism and that abominable Idol the Common-Prayer Some words perhaps may slip unwarily that might have been as well let alone but alas good people they mean no harm Suppose that some of this way were guilty of some provoking forwardness should grave Patriots and wise counsellors thereupon destroy the weak Party or rather heal it 'T is indeed possible that in the heat of a Reforming and Spiritual Zeal they may have let fall Speeches of holy Indignation against the opposers of the LORD'S ORDINANCE But have they shewed their disaffection either to King or Parliament by any thing discernable in their outward behaviour have they controlled the Law of the Land or the just Liberty of the People If they have not done all this there 's a great failing both in our Stories and our Memories I know 't will be objected they Petition'd and in a supplicant and humble way suitable to the duty of good Subjects They did Retition and in this manner about the. 27. of the Queen May it please your Majesty c. That it may be Enacted c. That the Book hereunto annexed c. Intituled A Book of the Form of common-Common-Prayers Administration of Sacraments c And every thing therein contain'd may be from henceforth authorized put in ure and practised throughout all Your Majesty's Dominions Herein they press upon the Nation their own Form which would not yet allow of any Other What they could not get establish'd by Law they settle yet by Practice and privately agree upon a general endeavour to encrease the Party But say they should be opposed Why then have a fling at Evil Counsellors If her Majesty give ear to such Counsellors she may have cause one day to lament Then they Remonstrate how miserably poor men have been handled That godly Ministers have been brought before the Bars of Justice and that if this Persecution be not provided for it is the case of many a thousand in England great troubles will come of it This numerous party will not vary from it self c. The minds of men are fix'd in this Opinion and are not like to be reduced to the practise of former times Well said I. C. yet Thousands says another do sigh for this Discipline and ten thousands have sought it We do protest unto Your Majesty say the Supplicators that we will be no longer subject unto the Bishops unlawful and usurped Authority c. And another The truth will prevail speaking of the Discipline in spight of your teeth meaning the Bishops and all other Adversaries of it In the late King's Declaration concerning the tumults in Scotland this way of Petitioning is very frequent and this is that my friend hints in saying That the Presbyterians have never ceased to sollicite and supplicate c. But Words draw no Blood 'T is true but such as these come very near it We phancy first defects in Government then we discourse them after that we propose a Reformation which if rejected we proceed to press it the next step is a Threat and then a Blow Where there are failings in Authority 't is not for private Persons to take Publick notice of them Who ever does that would strike if he durst This is not meant of every slip in common discourse either of Heat or Inadvertency yet that is very ill too but of deliberate Affronts such as proceed from a form'd Habit of Irreverence and in that Case I think 't were no hard measure if he that sets his hand to the King's dishonor should lose his Head for 't Take it at worst Put case a Prince Misgoverns yet we are sure that his Superior does not and that respect we cannot pay to his failings we must allow to his Commission From VVords proceed we now to Actions Presbyterian Practices toward their SOVEREIGN THE Presbyterian is no sooner in the Saddle but in the name of Reformation how the man Gallops Kings Parliaments Laws and Liberties Oathes and Covenants are but as feathers in his way I shall not clog this Section with many Instances The Traiterous actings of the Conventicle at Glasgow in 1638. the horrid outrages that usher'd it and the most deplorable consequences that ensu'd upon it contain enough to brand that Faction to eternity I shall the rather fix there because it brings the Case home and first in regard that the Schismaticks of both Nations acted by the same tie of Oath and Interest Next as it is the Model they have made the people swear they would be damn'd by Some of their many Insolencies are these I. The Assembly is Independent either from King or Parliament in matters Ecclesiastical II. It is lawful for Subjects to Covenant and Combine without the King and to enter into a Bond of mutual defence against him III. An Assembly may abrogate Acts of Parliament and discharge their fellow-Subjects from obedience to them if they any way reflect upon the business of the Church IV. They deny the King 's right of Calling or Dissolving Assemblies and they continue to Sit and Act notwithstanding his Majesty's express Order for their Dissolution See the King's Declaration These Rebellious proceedings are yet darkned by the transcending Usurpations that followed them But here I am bounded This onely I may say Who ever has a mind to run the extremities of another War and to see another King murther'd let him give his Vote for Presbytery And here let every man look behind him and lay his finger on his mouth As the Geneva Discipline is injurious to Kings and stated Laws so it is most ridiculously tyrannous to the People A great uproar arising in Edinburgh about the making of a Robin-hood they of the Consistory did excommunicate the whole Multitude 'T is a strange tenderness possesses these Saints One of them being to Christen a child brake off in the middle of the Action because he would not call it Richard I suppose no man knew this kind of Cattel better than King James I was persecuted says that learned Prince by Puritans not from my Birth onely but even since four Months before my Birth And to Prince Henry Thus. Take heed to such Puritans very Pests in the Church and Common-weal whom no deserts can oblige neither Oathes or Promises bind breathing nothing but Sedition and Calumnies aspiring without measure railing without reason and making their own imaginations without any warrant of the Word the square of their conscience I protest before the great God and since I am here as upon my Testament it is no place for me to lie in that ye shall never find with any Highlands or Border-thieves greater ingratitude and more lies and vile perjuries than with these Phanatique spirits And I think every man may say as much that hath but known them We are at length by Gods grert mercy delivered from those Evangelical