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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70712	The New test of the Church of England's loyalty, examined by the old test of truth and honesty		1687 (1687)	Wing N781; ESTC R7988	8,085	14

of England endeavoured with all her might to set up a Brat of her own to exclude Queen Mary It is so void of all appearance of Truth that it would puzzle any man by the History of those Times to guess what he means by it I suppose he means the Lady Jane Gray But was not she set up by the Ambition of Dudley D. of Northumberland who thereby hoped to have raised his Family his Son being her Husband to the Royal Dignity Did not the Members of the Church of England who were then in Power joyn against him Nay did not Northumberland himself after he was taken so true a Son of our Church he was offer to embrace the Communion of the Church of Rome to save his Life Was it not easy for the Protestants at that time to have set up her Sister Elizabeth whom they knew to be of their own Religion and to have excluded Queen Mary but so far were they from opposing the right Succession that upon her Arrival into Framingam-Castle they readily joyned with her and set her upon her Throne But after Queen Mary's Death saith he ibid. Elizabeth a known Bastard raised the Church of England as a Prop to support the Weakness of her Title Is not this said like a true Loyal Jesuit shewing the Honour he hath for Crown'd Heads by fixing upon one of the most renown'd of them the most Honourable Title of a plain downright Bastard Nay it is by so much more like him by how much it wants of Truth Was not Queen Elizabeth Daughter of King Henry the Eighth born in Wedlock after a most solemn Divorce grounded upon one of the justest Causes that could be viz. The Nullity of his former Marriage with the Lady Katherine of Spain Was not it thought at first so by Cardinal Wolsey nay by the Pope himself who had he not been overaw'd by the Emperour would have determined the Marriage unlawful nay did not he sign a Bull to that purpose I dare appeal to this Gentleman himself whether there be not far more Reason to believe it unlawful for a Man to Marry his Brother's Wife than there is to think it Lawful Now if this Question must be determined in the Assirmative doth it not directly follow that Queen Mary's Legitimacy was far more uncertain and consequently her Title did more need a Prop to support the Weakness of it than her Sister Queen Elizabeth's Henry the Eighth their Father knew this well enough and therefore settled the matter as well as he could by Acts of Parliament which right I shall not dispute But however if the Romanists thought it good against the Scotch title for Queen Mary why might not the Protestants think it as good for Queen Elizabeth But they saith he no sooner found themselves so established then they fell to making those Canibal-Laws to Hang Draw and Quarter the Priests of the Living God c. Not so fast I beseech you Sir were these Edicts made or consented to by the Convocation were these ever made Canons of our Church Why then is not the Saddle set upon the right Horse and they own'd to be the acts of State and not of our Church Again how can these be said to be true Priests of the Living God who would not own the Power that God had set over us in our Nation but look'd upon the supreme Magistrate as one deposed by the Popes Authority and adjudged to Death and therefore were continually Plotting and Contriving against her Life and Dignity and setting up the Queen of Scots Title against her which forced the Queen and her Council which had it not been necessary I am sure the Members of our Church would have thought most inhumane to take away the Life of that unfortunate Princess Now I pray what Crime is it or what fault is it in our Church if the Supream Power of our Nation does enact Laws to secure the Government Or what disloyalty is it for the Church of England not to join with Rebells or for the State to punish them by Law Oh! but these Laws are exclaimed against by all the Reformed Churches of Christendom c. p. 5. But for this we must only take this Gentleman 's bare word of the Sincerity of which this Pamplet hath already given us such undoubted Instances as cannot but prevail with us if we resolve never to be believ'd our selves to believe him but supposing any of the Reformed should speak against them have not our Governours the Power of determining by Law what is necessary for the publick Peace But however who can endure to hear Papists crying up Moderation and exclaiming against Sanguinary Laws c. For this is for the Kettle to accuse the Pot of Blackness Who I pray first enacted that Act De Heretico Comburendo and as long as they had Power nay sometimes as in the Case of John Husse c. contrary to the most solemn Promise of an whole Council of their Clergy put it in Execution Who was it that found out that old meek Method of converting Hereticks by the Inquisition or that more Harmless way now so much celebrated by the French Clergy of perswading them by Booted Apostles who will neither let them Fly nor Dye nor Sleep nor Eat in quiet till they have own'd their Conversion Who was it that Muthered such numbers of the Albigenses in cold Blood in the days of Yore and in latter times butchered so many Thousands of the English in Ireland and since that put to the Sword so many Protestants about Piedmont Who was it that murthered two Princes one after another viz. Henry the 3d. and Henry the 4th of France and raised that Bloody League called the Holy League a pattern to our Protestant-Jesuits Scotch-Covenant by which so many Thousands were destroyed by War Who was it that approved these things and made Panegyrick Orations upon them Were these Members of the Church of England or of the Church of Rome I leave it to this Gentleman to tell us in his next Pamphlet if he desires to hear any more of these matters and shall conclude this affair with an Expression of his own rightly applyed viz. That if Murtherers of their Lawful Soveraigns if making holy Leagues against them if raising Wars and Commotions in all Kingdoms and Canons of Infallible General Councils that bind them to such Actions under an Anathema be sufficient Testimenies of Loyalty we must own the Church of Rome to have been hitherto unparallel'd in her Duty but if this be not the true Test of Loyal Subjects our Rock of Loyalty is already degenerate into a Rock of Scandal of Desobedience and Rebellion p. 5 in fine p. 6. The rest of his Discourse from p. 6. line the 7th is taken up in base and false Insinuations of the Church of England's Disloyalty or at least Ingratitude to our present King in that notwithstanding his Gracious Promises and Royal Word to maintain our Religion we dare not trust