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A47052	Nonconformity not inconsistent with loyality, or, Protestant-dissenters no seditious or disloyal sectaries evidenc'd in a sober discourse upon those statutes, by which the Protestant-dissenters are prosecuted at this day : humbly offered to the candid consideration of all Protestants, whether conformists or nonconformists / by James Jones ...	Jones, James, fl. 1683-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing J958; ESTC R17214	32,964	24

and Resolved to defend the Kings Person and maintain the welfare of the Kingdom against the Pope and all Forreign Power and have given great demonstration of their own peaceable subjection to His Majesties Government it seemeth to be a Proceedings of great severity to punish such persons who fear swearing this Oath only least they should Sin against God in swearing that which they know they cannot perform viz. A thorow Conformity to the Church Matters which if that were the meaning of the Oath those Nonconformists that have taken the said Oath would not have taken it Now therefore that each Party may be helped in this matter here followeth a Copy of the Oath of Allegiance and King James his Exposition or Paraphrase upon it The Oath of Allegiance I A. B. Do truly and sincerely acknowledg Profess Testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the World that our Sovereign Lord King James is Lawful and Rightful King of this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries and that that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose any of his Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions or to Authorize any Forreign Prince to invade or Annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance or Obedience to his Majesty or to give Licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms to Raise Tumults to offer any violence or hurt to His Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of His Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my Heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made and granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise And I will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I further swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this Damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes which be Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever and I do believe and in my Conscience am Resolved that neither the Pope nor any other person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath nor any part thereof which I acknowledg by good and full Authority to be lawfully Ministred unto me and do Renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely Acknowledge and Swear according to these Express Words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any Equivocation or mental Evasion or secret Reservation whatsoever and I do make this Recognition and Acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon the True Faith of a Christian So help me God And now for a further and better help to understand the Oath of Allegiance let King James his answer to Cardinal Bellarmine be well considered concerning this Oath in his Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance page 46. where he saith It may appear what unreasonable and rebellious points he would drive my Subjects unto by Refusing the whole Body of that Oath as it is conceived for he that shall Refuse t● take this Oath must of necessity hold all or some of these Proposition following viz. 1. That I King James am not the Lawful King of this Kingdom and all other my Dominions 2. That the Pope by his own Authority may depose me if not by his own Authority yet by some other Authority of the Church or of the See of Rome if not by some other Authority of the Church of See of Rome yet by other means with others help he may depose me 3. That the Pope may dispose of my Kingdoms and Dominions 4. That the Pope may give Authority to some Forreign Prince to invade my Dominions 5. That the Pope may discharge my Subjects from their Obedience and Allegiance to me 6. That the Pope may give Licence to one or more of my Subjects to bear Arms against me 7. That the Pope may give leave to my Subjects to offer violence to my Person or to my government or to some of my Subjects 8. That if the Pope shall by Sentence Excommnnicate or Depose me my Subjects are not to bear Faith and Allegiance to me 9. If the Pope shall by Sentence Excommunicate or Depose me my Subjects are not bound to defend with all their power my Person and Crown 10. If the Pope shall give out any Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation against me my Subjects by reason of that Sentence are not bound to Reveal all Conspiracies and Treasons against me which shall come to their hearing or knowledge 11. That it is not Heretical or detestable to hold that Princes being Excommunicated by the Pope may either deposed or killed by their Subjects or any other 12. That the Pope hath power to absolve my Subjects from this Oath or from some part thereof 13. That this Oath is not Administred to my Subjects by a full and lawful Authority 14. That this Oath is to be taken with Equivocation Mental Evasion or secret Reservation and not with the Heart and good-will Sincerely in the Faith of a Christian Man These are the true and natural Branches of the Body of this Oath And now forasmuch as there is another Oath called the Oath of Supremacy about which many good Protestants have differing Apprehensions some being very free to take the said Oath some do Conscienciously scruple it and so dare not take it for fear they should Sin against God in so doing The same Oath shall be here Presented to Consideration The Oath of Supremacy I A. B. Do utterly Testifie and Declare in my conscience That the Queens Highness is the only Supream Governour of this Realm and of all other Her highness Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or Causes as Temporal And that no Forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Pre-eminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and therefore I do utterly Renounce and Forsake all Forreign Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and

Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and True Allegiance to the Queens Highness her Heirs and Lawful Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Pre-eminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Queens Highness her Heirs or Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the contents of this Book Now in the aforesaid Oath some of the words are such as many Godly Persons cannot heartily speak and therefore Refuse to speak them at all in a way of Swearing viz. That the King as Supream Governour of this Realm is Supream Governour in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or Causes as well as in all Temporal Things and Causes Which words are Expounded or Explained by Queen Elizabeth in an Admonition Annexed to the Queens Injunctions Published in the first year of her Raign which take as followeth And further Her Majesty forbiddeth all manner of Subjects to give Ear or Credit to such perverse and malitious persons which most sinisterly and malitiously labour to notify to her loving Subjects how by the words of the said Oath it may be Collected the Kings or Queens of this Realm Possessors of the Crown may challenge Authority and Power of Ministry of Divine Offices in the Church wherein her said Subjects be much Abused by such evil disposed persons For certainly Her Majesty neither doth nor ever will challenge any other Authority then that was Challenged and lately used by the said Noble Kings of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth and King Edward the sixth which is and was of ancient time due to the Imperial Crown of this Realm That is under God to have Soveraignty and Rule over all manner of persons Born within these her Realms Dominions and Countries of what Estate either Ecclesiastical or Temporal soever they be so as no other Forreign Power shall or ought to have any Superiority over them and if any person that hath conceived any other sense of the Form of the said Oath shall accept the same Oath with this interpretation her Majesty is well pleased to accept every such in that behalf as her good obedient Subjects shall acquit them of all manner of Penalties contained in the said Act against such as shall peremtorily or obstinately Refuse to take the said Oath And in the fifth year of her Majesties Raign there was an Act of Parliament to confirm this Sense of the said Oath in these following words Provided also That the Oath expressed in the said Act made in the said first year shall be taken and expounded in such Form as is set forth in an Admonition Annexed to the Queens Majesties Injunctions published in the first year of her Majesties Raign That is to say to confess and acknowledg in her Majesty her Heirs and Successors none other Authority then that was challenged and lately used by the Noble King Henry the Eighth and King Edward the Sixth as in the said Admonition more plainly may appear Now from the aforesaid Oath together with the aforesaid Exposition Confirmed by Act of Parliament Let these things be Considered 1. A Solemn Assertion of the Queens Power and Authority in her own Kingdom and Dominions in opposition to any Forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate 2. That the Power and Authority of the Queen in her own Realms and other her Dominions was over all Ecclesiastical Persons as well as over all Temporal Persons so as to be tryed by her Laws in all Matters and Causes they may be concerned in that if innocent they may be acquitted but if guilty they may be punished by her Power and Authority according to her Laws in her Courts of Justice without Appealing to or hoping for Relief from Forreign Jurisdiction 3. And therefore let all those who do Conscienciously scruple to take either of the aforesaid Oaths Consider whether they have not entertained such notions and apprehensions of them as the plain words and comon sense of such words will not fairly bear and thereby expose themselves to such trouble as they might lawfully escape if their Judgments were better informed 4. Let such as have power to tender and impose the said Oaths upon persons Consider whether the Tender of such Oaths is not sometimes done out of spite to the persons before them they knowing that they are of Scrupulons Consciences and so are sure that they have an opportunity to afflict them and yet know in their own Consciences that such persons are good Protestants and have long lived in all peaceable manner under the Government and so desire to abide that they may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty under Authority as they are taught by the Good Word of God V. Another Law by which the Protestant Dissenters have been and still are Prosecuted and Distressed is the 17. of Car. 2. Chap. 2. viz. An Act for Restraining Nonconformists from Inhabiting Incorporations Now the Persons punishable by this Act are such as are Nonconformist Preachers who live in a Corporation or within five Miles of a Corporation and that Preach in Conventicles and thereby under pretence of Religion do distill Poysonous Principles of Schism and Rebellion into the Hearts of his Majesties Subjects to the great danger of the Church and Kingdom See the first Paragraph of the said Statute And the punishment provided by the said Statute for such persons is the forfeiture of Forty Pounds to be sued for in any Court of Record at Westminster or before the Judges of Assize and also six Months Imprisonment if such persons shall Refuse to take the Oath Provided by this Act A Copy whereof is as followeth I A. B. Do Swear that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are Commissioned by him in pursuance of such Commissions and that I will not at any time endeavour any Alteration of Government either in Church or State Now from the aforesaid Statute Let these things be Considered 1. That the Main Design of the said Act was to rid Cities and Corporations of such Nonconformist Ministers as under pretence of Religion do distill Poysonous Principles of Schism and Rebellion into the Hearts of his Majesties Subjects to the danger of Church and State Now if there be any such Criminal Persons under the name of Nonconformist Ministers let them suffer according to their Crimes when proved by sufficient Evidence 2. Consider that all sorts of Nonconformist Ministers do abhor to be such Persons and to promote Rebellion but they do generally make it their business to Preach Eternal Salvation by the Blessed Merits of Jesus Christ and a Holy Conversation according to the Blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ following the things which make for Peace here and hoping to injoy a Better Peace when this