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A42580 A vindication of the principles of the author of the answer to the compiler of the nubes testium from the charge of popery in answer to a late pretended letter from a dissenter to the divines of the Church of England : as deceivers, and yet true, 2 Cor. 6. 8. Gee, Edward, 1657-1730. 1688 (1688) Wing G464; ESTC R3563 22,276 42

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Imprimatur Hic Liber cui Titulus A Vindication of the Principles of the Author c. Dec. 14. 1687. Jo. Battely A VINDICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE AUTHOR of the Answer to the Compiler of the Nubes Testium From the Charge of POPERY In Answer to a late Pretended Letter from a Dissenter to the Divines of the Church of England As Deceivers and yet True 2 Cor. 6.8 LONDON Printed for Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard 1688. A VINDICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE AUTHOR of the Answer to the Compiler of the Nubes Testium c. HAD I not already promised the world in Print a speedy Vindication of my self the natural care and tenderness that every man hath for his own Reputation are a sufficient engagement to set about the clearing of my self from being that Counterfeit or teaching that Popery I am accused of in a Pretended Letter from a Dissenter to the Divines of the Church of England I have already hinted to the world in the Advertisement at the end of my Second Letter to Sabran the Jesuit that I am very well satisfied not onely that this pretended Letter came out of Henry Hill's Press but that it was the Issue of the Representer's or Compiler's call him whether you will malicious Pen. This every one that I converse with as well as my self quickly saw and every man else cannot but see that either knows the Print of Henry Hills or the Stile of the Representer Having made this discovery of their unhansom underhand-dealings herein I was once thinking to have shewn how very conformable this management was to the Secret Practices of some of the Members of the Church of Rome in former times against the Established Church of England but when I found Materials increase too much upon my hands which would have made an Introduction too large for such a Discourse as I intend this to be I have upon that and a better reason laid that design aside I cannot however but tell the Representer here that I have read and considered his Third Chapter in his Third Part of Popery Misrepresented and Represented about the Jesuits in Protestant Pulpits And that I found neither Truth nor Reason there as I think I could make apparent unto the world were not this a Subject too nice for the present Age. I will tell him also that it would have been as prudent in him not to have touched upon this string since this is a Subject in the treating of which he doth inevitably run himself upon hurting either his Cause or his Conscience Among the Methods made use of against the Church of England there is none more likely to have ruined the Church than that which was so much in vogue in the late King's Reign I mean the beginning and keeping up of Fears and Jealousies against the Church as if her Greatest as well as most Learned Members had been at best Popishly affected and waited onely for a good opportunity either of stepping over unto the Church of Rome or at least of accommodating Matters with Her and meeting her half way How successful this false and most unreasonable Slander of the Church of England was no person can be ignorant that remembers even the last part of the late King's Reign What share some of our Representer's Friends had in the raising or fomenting those Jealousies and Fears of the Best Church-men and Greatest Men in it is not so easie to discover here That they had some share in them is what we have very good reason to suspect since we are sure that they did reap the greatest advantage from them But when that time was come which the Fanatical Enemies of the Church of England said the Church-men waited onely for and when those deluding and deluded People saw that to the Confusion of all their false surmizes the Clergy of the Church of England continued firm to their mother-Mother-Church and vigorous against all the Assaults of Rome and were as far as ever from betraying the Cause or the Defence of the Church of England or the Protestant Interest those Fears and Jealousies were laid aside and buried and the Multitude began to have a new as well as just apprehension of things and were not ashamed to confess that they had been very much abused with those false Fears and groundless Jealousies and that they were now abundantly convinced that the Church-men really were what they had all along professed and shewn themselves to be True Sons of the Church of England and the most faithful and diligent Defenders of the Protestant Cause This discovery of the Sincerity of the Clergy of the Church of England was I do not in the least question very uneasy to one Part of the World who could not but be highly troubled that the serviceable and prosperous Fears and Jealousies were now out of date and laid by as utterly useless and I do not doubt that they were thereupon no little unwilling to have them quite forgotten All the business was how to retrieve those Fears and Jealousies before they were clean extinct and what must be done to keep some of them up and to continue them in the Heads of the deluded People I can very easily suppose that there were as many Expedients almost as Welwishers to the support of the Old Method but he in my opinion seems to have hit on the most probable means who was for shewing to the World that there still is an Agreement in most material things between the two Churchs of England and Rome This was the Invention of one of our Representers Church who it seems took it very ill that the world should think the Clergy of the Church of England were such great Opposers of Popery or that they really were as far from being infected with Principles of Popery as they were desirous to be thought at this time That he might therefore convince the People and expose to the world that great mistake He prepares a Collection and publishes in Print his worthy design which was to shew according to the Title it bears An Agreement between the Church of England and the Church of Rome But there were two great Mistakes committed in the publishing of that Pamphlet which were like to ruin the design of it and prevent its doing any good towards the keeping up of Fears and Jealousies of the English Clergy the One was that the Author thereof did discover so plainly what Church he was of and the other was that the Book did in its Title page shew out of whose Press it came Had it been the Work of some Protestant Dissenter it would have required a fairer examination and deserved the greater credit as coming from one who commonly makes such professions of Conscience and Sincerity and who by his former share of promoting Fears and Jealousies of the Clergy might seem to be in a particular manner interested to make good his quondam charge against the Clergy of the Church of