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The case of allegiance in our present circumstances consider'd in a letter from a minister in the city to a minister in the country.
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Masters, Samuel, 1645 or 6-1693.
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and King James but indeed in the next Reign when Popish and French Councils found admission at our Court then arose together the New Principles of superconformity in the Church and of Super Loyalty in the State which like a preternatural ferment have ever since disturb'd the peace of both and must be again cast out if we ever recover a true English Temper or a peaceful settlement If then we frame our Character of the Church of England from the first and purest half of her Age before she was secretly practis'd upon by the Arts of her subtle Adversary we shall easily discover that her principles of Conformity and Loyalty are far more moderate and intelligible than those which since that time have been most industriously and impetuously recommended under her Venerable Name And I wish that every one who professeth an Honourable and kind regard for our Church would no longer ascribe to her such Principles and Doctrines which she for many years was ignorant of wherewith the Church hath given great advantage to her Enemies and receiv'd nothing but Scorn and Contempts and by which she may oblige the present Government to treat her with less kindness than she might otherwise expect But I forget that I am writing a Letter and how much pardon I already need for running it into so great a length but I thought it better to give you so long a trouble in reading than to leave any trouble on your mind unremoved I beseech you to excuse candidly the mistakes I may have committed and to accept the Services of Reverend Sir London March 1688 / 9 Your Affectionate Brother and Faithful Friend c. Books Lately Printed for RIC. CHISWELL AN Explication of the Catechism of the Church of England Viz. The Creed Lords Prayer Ten Commandements and the Sacraments in IV. Volumes Fol. by Gabr. Towerson D. D. The Fifteen Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted by several Hands with a Table to the whole 4to Reflexions upon the Books of the Holy Scripture in order to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion in Two Parts Oct. By Mr. Alix The TEXTS which the Papists cite out of the Bible for Proof of the Points of their Religion Examined and shew'd to be alledg'd without Ground In twenty five distinct Discourses by several Hands Viz. Popery not founded in Scripture The Introduction TEXTS concerning the Obscurity of Holy Scriptures Of the insufficiency of Scripture and necessity of Tradition Of the Supremacy of St. Peter and the Pope over the whole Church In two parts Of Infallibility Of the Worship of Angels and Saints departed In two Parts Of the Worship of Images and Reliques Of the Seven Sacraments and the Efficacy of them In two Parts Of the Sacrifice of the Mass In two Parts Of Transubstantiation Of Auricular Confession Of Satisfactions In two parts Of Purgatory In two Parts Of Prayer in an unknown Tongue In two Parts Of Coelibacy of Priests and Vows of Continence In two parts Of the Visibility of the Church Of Merit of Good Works Two Tables to the whole will shortly be published A Continuation of the state of the Controversie between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a full account of the Books that have been of late written on both sides By William Wake M. A. 4to Dr. Patricks Parable of the Pilgrim The Sixth Edition corrected A Private Prayer to be used in difficult Times 8to Exposition of the Ten Commandments 8to His Sermon before the Prince of Orange 20. January 1688. A Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall March 1. 1688. Books lately Published by Dr. Gilbert Burnet A Collection of Tracts and Discourses written after the Discovery of the Popish Plot from the years 1678 to 1685. To which is added a Letter written to Dr. Burnet giving an Account of Cardinal â—ools Secret Powers The History of the Powder Treason with a Vindication of the Proceedings thereupon An Impartial Consideration of the Five Jesuites dying Speeches who were Executed for the Popish Plot 1679. A Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England In which is demonstrated that all the Essentials of Ordination according to the Practice of the Primitive and Greek Churches are still retained in our Church Reflexions on the Relation of the English Reformation lately printed at Oxford in two Parts 4to Animadversions on the Reflections upon Dr. BVRNET's Travels 80 Reflexions on a Paper intitled his Majesties Reasons for withdrawing himself from Rochester An Enquiry into the present State of Affairs and imparticular whether we owe Allegiance to the King in these Circumstances And whether we are bound to Treat with Him and call Him back or no A Sermon Preached in St. James's Chappel before the Prince of Orange 23d Decemb 1688. A Sermon Preached before the House of Commons 31 January 1688 being the Thanksgiving day for the deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power His Eighteen Papers relating to the Affairs of Church and State during the the Reign of King James the Second Seventeen whereof were written in Holland and first Printed there the other at Exeter soon after the Prince of Orange's Landing in England A Letter to Mr. Thevenot Containing a Censure of Mr. Le Grand's History of King Henry the Eighth's Divorce To which is added a Censure of Mr. de Meauxâ—s History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches Together with some further Reflections on Mr. Le Grand 1689. Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria a Christo nato usque ad Saeculum XIV Facili Methâ—do digesta Qua de Vita illorum ac Rebus gestis de Secta Dogmatibus Elogio Stylo de Scriptis genuinis dubiis supposititiis ineditis deperditis Fragmentis deque variis Operum Editionibus perspicue agitur Accedunt Scriptores Gentiles Christiane Religionis Oppugnatores cujusvis Saeculi Breviarium Inseruntur suis locis Veterum aliquot Opuscula Fragmenta turn Graeca tum Latina hactenus inedita Praemissa denique Prolegomena quibus plurima ad Antiquitatis Ecclesiasticae studium spectantia traduntur Opus Indicibus necessariis instructum Autore GVILIELMO CAVE SS Theol. Profes Canonico Windesoriensi Accedit ab Alia Manu Appendix ab ineunte Saeculo XIV ad Annum usque MDXVII Fol. 1689. ADVERTISEMENT Whereas a Book Intituled FASCICULUS RERUM EXPETENDARUM ET FUGIENDARUM with a large Additional APPENDIX was promised by Richard Chiswell the Undertaker to be finished in Michaelmas Term last This is to give Notice That by reason of the Sickness of the Printer and some necessary Avocations of the Publisher it has been retarded But for the Satisfaction of Subscribers the Book will be forty or fifty Sheets more than was promised in the Proposals which will cost the Undertaker 100 l. extraordinary yet in Consideration thereof he will not expect one penny above the first Subscription price only craves their patience till the Book can be done which is now going on with all possible speed and so soon as finished Notice shall be given in the Gazette In the mean time there being some few of the Impression not yet subscribed for such Gentlemen as please to take the Benefit thereof may be admitted Subscribers and may have Printed Proposals for sending for at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Chuch-Yard or at most Booksellers Shops in City or Country
ultimately resolved they allow to an English Parliament no more power than to give some inauthoritative Advice which the King may use or neglect as he thinks fit They think a Coronation Oath whatever it may be with respect to God yet with respect to the People is only a customary Ceremony or insignificant Formality They suppose all legal limitations of the Government to be but the King 's arbitrary and temporary Condescentions which he may retract without doing any Injury to the People and in a word that all our Laws are entirely dependent on His Pleasure for their Being Continuance and Influence but his Will is in all Cases unaccountable and irresistible Such Maxims as these quite alter the Frame of our English Government raise up our King into a Tyrant and depress his Subjects into Slaves and serve only to render the King odious and his People miserable and therefore as no wise Man can forbear wishing that they may not be true so upon enquiry we shall find that they have been advanced either by the Fondness of some who frame Schemes of Government in their own imagination or by the Ignorance of others who are deceiv'd with the sound of the aequivocal Name of King or by the Craft of those who make a Trade of advancing the Prerogative in order to their own Advancement Indeed if the preceding Principle had proved true That Monarchy is a Divine Institution it would be necessary for us to grant that no other Form of Government could be mix'd with it or That be restrained by any Limitations because it cannot be lawful for Man to adulterate or infringe the Ordinance of God But seeing the Jus Divinum doth not appear we have reason to suppose that our English Government is built on the Topical Constitutions of this Countrey and may differ from the Government of other Countreys as much as our Tempers Interests and Circumstances do For if the Supreme Governor of the VVorld hath not thought fit to prescribe One Form of Government to be every-where observed he hath permitted to every Nation a Liberty of framing to themselves such a Constitution as may be most useful and agreeable and as it is inconceivable that all Nations should conspire in the same Platform of Governments so it is most unreasonable to seek in Judea Italy or France for the Measures or Properties of the English Government which was made and is therefore to be found only at Home and should be describ'd rather from its own Laws and Constitutions than any fine Notions we can conceive of what it might or should be And if we contemplate the Government it self we may easily discover what its essential Forms and Properties are for surely a Government that hath been publickly transacted through so many Ages and hath made so great a Figure in the world cannot remain an imperceptible Secret or an unintelligible Mystery and I cannot forbear suspecting those who disguise it with so many Uncertainties and Obscurities that they design to mislead us into a mistake of that which they will not allow us to understand A little skill in our English History will suffice to inform us That the Saxons and English from whom this Nation is chiefly descended did first introduce the Form of our English Government and that it was the same they had been inur'd to in Germany where as Tacitus observes Regibus nec infinita aut libera potestas Kings had not an Absolute or Unlimited Power Tacit. de morib Germ. Sect. 3 5. And from the ancient Records of those early Times we are assur'd That the Consent of the People in a Convention or Parliament did always concur to the making of Laws and also their Consent in a Jury of Peers was always admitted in the Execution of Them VVhence the People of England have been always acknowledged to be Free-men And tho we read that the Saxons were subdued by the Danes yet we find not that their Government was changed but that after a short Interruption the Government and Country returned entirely into the Hands of the Saxons The Duke of Normandy whom we call the Conqueror was such only with respect to Harold who usurp'd the Crown but not with respect to the Kingdom which he claimed as Successor to King Edward to whom he was related by whom he was adopted and from whom he had received a solemn Promise of the next Reversion and accordingly we find that tho be made some external Changes in the Government yet he made no essential Alteration in the Form of it and the same kind of Government hath been transmitted by succeeding Kings to the present Age with some accidental Improvements as our Ancestors grew wiser by Experience or the Necessities and interests of the Nation did require Now inasmuch as our English Government was at first transplanted out of another Countrey and hath been ripened into a Perfection by several degrees through a long tract of Time it would be very fanciful to suppose one solemn time when the Original Compact between the King and People was first made or to ask after a Book in which it is in a certain Form recorded that Compact being nothing else than a tacit Agreement between the King and Subjects to observe such common Usages and Practices as by an immemorial Prescription are become the Common-Law of our Government And to understand these so far as our present Case requires there it no necessity that should read over all the Records in the Tower or all the Volumes of our English History there being several ancient Forms and Customs among us which fall under easie Observation that are sufficient to inform us of the Nature of our English Government For when at a Coronation we see a King presented to the People and their Consent solemnly asked and given what can we reasonably inser from thence but that anciently Kings were advanced to their Thrones by the Consent and Agreement of the People When we hear the King solemnly Promise and Swear to maintain to the People their Rights and Liberties to conserve the Laws and cause them to be observed must we not conclude from thence that there are Rights and Liberties reserved to the People that the Will of the King is limited by the Law of the Realm and that he is bound by His Oath to conserve the Laws as we are by Ours to observe them When we are taught to call the King our Leige-Sovereign and our selves his Leige-Subjects do not those Terms import that he is bound to protect Us in All our Rights as we are bound to obey Him in All his Laws When we read in the Preamble of every Statute That it is enacted not only by the Authority of the King 's most Excellent Majesty but also by the Authority of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons assembled in Parliamen is it not very evident from hence that the Parliament hath a share in the Legislative Power which is an eminent Branch