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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43659	The judgment of an anonymous writer concerning ... I. a law for disabling a papist to inherit the crown, II. the execution of penal laws against Protestant dissenters, III. a bill of comprehension : all briefly discussed in a letter sent from beyond the seas to a dissenter ten years ago.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing H1854; ESTC R5996	17,943	35

THE JUDGMENT OF AN Anonymous Writer CONCERNING These following Particulars I. A Law for Disabling a Papist to Inherit the Crown II. The Execution of Penal Laws against Protestant Dissenters III. A Bill of Comprehension All Briefly Discussed In a Letter sent from beyond the Seas to a Dissenter ten Years ago The Second Edition LONDON Printed by T. B. for Robert Clavel and are to be sold by Randolph Taylor near Stationers Hall MDCLXXXIV THE Bookseller TO THE READER THIS Little Book was first Printed in the Year 1674. Who the Author of it was I cannot tell nor dare I presume to conjecture When it came out first it was received as the last thing that was written by a Late Learned and Right Honourable Author who was in France at that time and since hath been cited as if it had been his and I was so carried away with the common Opinion that I was almost perswaded to print it under his Name especially having heard that the Late Firebrand of the Nation The Earl of Shaftsbury always took it for his But as I was ready to put it to the Press a Gentleman to whom I communicated my Design did assure me he was not the Author of it but another Person but because I cannot speak upon Assurance for fear of mistake I will not so much as hint to the Reader whom I think him to be I was perswaded by a Learned Gentleman as ignorant of the Author as myself to give it a New Impression and by this small Pamphlet which came out so long since the Republican Party might have seen that there were good Men in the NATION who would not sit idle and see them run down the Government For if a Loyal Subject at such a distance did Ten years since defend the Succession when it was but lightly attack'd it was easie to foresee that there would be great Numbers to defend it both with their Pens and Swords when it came to be so powerfully opposed God Almighty be praised for giving the KING the Victory over the Enemies of the Monarchy and give his Loyal Subjects Grace to walk worthy of the same Amen Robert Clavel A LETTER sent from beyond the Seas to a Noted Dissenter Dear Cousin I Was very glad to receive your Letters but very sorry to find by them that you are still so extreamly desirous of Innovations in a Government so well Established as that is under which you live I perceive you are more zealous then it becomes a good Subject or a good Christian to be for carrying on a Project of the Earl of Shaftsbury as Unreasonable as New viz. That of Disabling a Papist to Inherit the Crown For doubtless that proposal was first made and afterwards promoted by him the last Sessions of Parliament not out of true Love to the Reformed Religion but out of Spite and Revenge to the D. of Y Who were he not only Papist but Heathen or Mahumetan which I think is not much worse would certainly have as good a Title to his Crown and all his Temporal Rights as if he were the most Orthodox and Holy Christian in the World And I am perswaded that my zealous Lord Chose would not be willing that the King and Parliament should make a particular Act to disable his own Posterity to Inherit the great Estate he hath got if they should turn Papists or Atheists as others have done before them We all know what mischief in the World that Damnable Doctrine has made That Temporal Rights and Inheritances depend upon Saintship and Grace And if it be clear from Scripture as nothing is more clear that a King ought not to lose his Crown for not being a Christian or for renouncing the Christian Religion as Iulian did then it is plain that neither the Duke nor any other Prince ought to be debarred from the Crown which is the greatest and most sacred of Temporal Rights for not being Protestants or which is more for renouncing the Christian Religion And I am heartily glad that God gave the Fathers of the English Church the Grace and Courage to defend her Doctrine in opposing that Unreasonable and truly Romish Proposal of my Lord Chose which if they had approved and defended after it was proposed they had truly acted in that like Prelats Popishly affected and really shewed themselves to be what their Adversaries would fain perswade the World they are For 't is the Romish Church and her Doctors which maintain That Kings Excommunicated or Heretick Kings or which is all one that Kings that renounce the Apostolick Faith ought to be Deprived and Deposed But 't is the Church of England that maintains the contradiction of that Unscriptural Unevangelical Principle and thinks her self as much obliged to submit her self to a Heathen Atheistical Heretical or Popish Prince where she can as to an Orthodox King and where she cannot she thinks her self obliged to suffer as her Saviour like a Lamb brought to the slaughter and dares pretend to take up no Arms but those of the Primitive Christians Whose true Copy she is Tears Arguments and Prayers I say it is the Church of England that is of this Judgment and neither the Church of Rome nor the Kirk of Scotland both of which have actually Excommunicated and Deposed Lawful and Rightful Princes under the Notion of being Hereticks and Enemies to Christs Kingdom forgetting both alike the Precepts and Examples of our Saviour and his Apostles on which the Church of England hath grounded the contrary Doctrine as well as on right reason Our Saviour though God rendred unto the Heathen Caesar the things that were Caesar's he owned his right to the Empire both by word and deed although he were but the adopted Successor of the greatest Usurper that ever was in the World Nay furthermore he owned and submitted to the procuratory Power of Pilate who acted but by Commission from the Emperour Tiberius who if there be any truth in the Character of Tacitus was one of the greatest Tyrants and most wicked men that ever the World saw And as for St. Paul there is no Article of our Religion not even that that Iesus Christ is the Son of God more clear in his Epistles than that Every Soul should be subject to the Higher Powers that we should Obey not only for Wrath but Conscience sake that whosoever resisteth receiveth to himself Damnation and lastly that all the Powers and when he wrote there were none but Heathen Powers were ordained of God I might here insist upon the Practice of the Apostles as it is represented in their Acts and the constant Submission and Sufferings of the Primitive Christians as they are reported by the Ecclesiastical Fathers and Historians but the Scripture it self is sufficient to demonstrate the truth of this Argument which the Church of England has not only established in her Doctrine but her Fathers and Sons of late maintained in their Practices and which the Kirk of of Scotland agreeing in this