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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71053	Examinations, or, A discovery of some dangerous positions delivered in A sermon of reformation preached in the church of the Savoy last fast day July 26 by Tho. Fuller, B.D. and since printed / by Iohn Saltmarsh ...	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1643 (1643)	Wing S481; ESTC R23325	13,853	26

Fathers the honourable Reservation to our first Reformers Examination That it may appear I look not onely at the worst of the Sermon there are excellent truths in it and it is pitie they are not better situated I could alwayes wish to see a Diamond set in Gold These are good Positions and in their Pages not without their enamill of wit yet there is a Policy to write faire in one leafe though you make a blot in another but I cannot let these passe without some observation First for the Qualification I dare say never age afforded more eminent in this Kingdom their Calling lawfull their Pietie exemplary their knowledge radiant their courage experienced thorow a legion of difficulties their prudence in the conduct of a businesse though opposed with the Policy and Malignity of a grand and potent Enemy And for the decent buriall of Ceremonies and superstitions of the fathers they shall have a Parliament of Senators and an Assembly of Divines to lay them in their Grave and I dare say a godly Congregation in the Kingdom to sing a Psalm at their Funeralls and will not this be a very decent buriall And for the honourable reservation to the Reformers and their memories our Divines and Reformers now have ever made resorts and appeals to the truths they delivered and in those times when Beza and Calvin and P. Martyr were set lowest till the Master of the feast came lately and bid them sit up higher a Caietan and Bellarmine and a Councell of Trent I am sure had more honour from the Divinitie of the other year or your times so farre we admire the Reformers as to love their Truths and to pitty their errors But I will not say much a errors may be more provoked than remedied with overhandling let us be wise in the Colours of good and evill b though it be an honest yet it is a dangerous mistake to think too many our Friends and too few our Enemies Conclusion If I be now examined what Reformation I aime at I answer my endeavour here was only to take out of the way such rubbish as others would bring in if we can but clear the passage we go far in the work and in the meantime let us like Ioshuas spies bring no evill report upon the land we are going to But suppose this perfect Reformation or Church were among the c {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the d {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Ragione di sacro dominio he were no wise nor faithful Divine who would not preserve that secret for holy advantages 't is Gods own design and his Apostles to hold out a perfection to us be perfect as your heavenly father and some Pastors for the perfecting of the Saints I commend Bodin Tacitus for their politicall faithfulness they writ far yet would not e sun the Imperiall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} nor make them popular Apology I have now done I will not say refuting but committing errors I am afraid my haste at this time hath made me mend one fault only with another FINIS New Quaeres OF CONSCIENCE Touching the late OATH Desiring Resolution Q. How it consists with 1. The threefold conditions of an Oath in generall of Truth Iudgement Righteousnes Jer. 4. 2. 2. The threefold Oath taken in particular viz. of 1. Allegiance 2. Supremacy 3. Protestation 3. Theirown introduction Limitation in speciall in order to the security and preservation of the True Reformed Protestant Religion I. Quaere How it consists with the three Conditions of an OATH 1. OF Truth which excludes falshood doublings fictions mentall evasions aequivocations and reservations and requires simplicity and sincerity according to the sense and purpose of the imposer 1 Liquide jurare 2. Of judgement not unadvisedly lightly or wantonly to satisfie the times to comply with great persons for advantage or carnall securitie not upon a Popish implicite faith but to let every man be perswaded in his own minde that it be grounded upon a necessary Cause and taken soberly advisedly discreetly reverently and in the rear of God 3. Of Righteousnesse That it be not to the prejudice of my Neighbour Hee that takes it with his private Reservation inconsistent with the Sense and purpose of the Oath offends against the first He that takes it for favour of men offends against the second He that takes it out of emulation and rage to the dammage of his Brother offends against the third For these Causes D. Augustine concludes Falsa juratio exitiosa est vera juratio periculosa nulla juratio secura False swearing is pernitious True swearing is dangerous no swearing is secure Ser. 28. de verb Apost. By an ancient Law of the Church No man was to be sworn but fasting Quaere II. How can it consist with the Oath 1 OF Supremacy For if he be once supream over all persons in all causes Ecclesiasticall and Temporall how can I swear to subject him or bring him under any person in any Cause whatsoever and though the chief occasion of that Oath was upon the Popes pretending jurisdiction yet the intention and extention was to shut all his Subjects under the same condition of Obedience 2 Of Allegiance For I am bound First To defend the King and his Successours to the uttermost of my power against all Treasons Conspiracies against his Person Crown and dignity Secondly To doe my best endeavour to reveal all Conspiracies I know or hear against him or any of them and Third That no person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of the Oath and All which seem to be endangered by taking up Armes against him or his life-guard or the forces raised by him 3. Of the late Protestation in regard of a double seeming Contradiction For I promise vow and protest to maintain the Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England But this assertion That in my Conscience I do beleeve that the Forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament are raised and continued for their just defence and for the defence of the true Protestant Religion seems to contradict the Protestant Religion Doctrin of our Church For though there be many strange Fancies and doctrines in the Church of England yet there is but One expresse Doctrine of the Church of England and that is conteined in the 39 Articles and Book of Common Prayer to which all the regular Clergy must subscribe and are confirmed by an Act of Parliament Now one Protestant point of our Religion expressed in the Doctrine of this Church is in the 37 Article Viz. 1. The Kings Majesty hath the Chief power id est supremacy in this Realme of England unto whom the Chiefe gouernment of All Estates of this Realme whether Ecclesiasticall or Civill in all Causes doth appertaine To Rule All estates and degrees committed to his charge and to restrain with the sword the Stubborne and evill doers