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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09389	Reformed catholique, or, The true protestant	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1679 (1679)	Wing L1291; ESTC R179474	23,474	16

REFORMED CATHOLIQUE OR THE True Protestant MATTH 24. 26. There shall arise FALSE CHRISTS and FALSE PROPHETS DVBLIN Reprinted M.DC.LXXIX The Reformed Catholique or the True Protestant THIS Paper should have come into the World under the form of a Letter as most Pamphlets of quality do of late if the Author had not made a Conscience of covering the Simplicity of his purpose under any sort of Disguise so that without so much as a single How do ye to usher it in he comes point blank to the Business in the very Title It may be look'd upon I know as a thing of Ill Omen to begin with an Alias But there 's neither Priest nor Highway-man in our Case and yet there be cause enough perhaps for a kind of Hue and Cry too for 't is a matter of great moment that every man should both go and be known by his right Name and peradventure never more necessary than in this juncture and in this particular and so to my Text. A Reformed Catholique properly so called is an Apostolieal Christian or a Son of the Church of England a true Protestant may be so to nay and many times he is so and many a Loyal Orthodox Reformed Catholique calls himself so and according to the stile of the Age he may be well enough said and accounted so to be But all this is only by Adoption and without any colour for it in the original of his Denomination Now a Protestant in strictness of speaking is a Lutheran which this Church does not in all points pretend to be and then the Characteristical Note of a Christian is Catholique so that the Appellation is too narrow for the Principle and draws on the very same Implication in a Protestant-Catholique which we make sport with in a Roman-Catholique that is to say the Soloecism of a particular Vniversality Here is enough already I suppose to furnish an Extract of as much Popery out of it as may recommend some hungry Informer to a Mornings-draught for we have a sort of people now a days that will read a mans Heart through his Ribs though they can hardly see his Nose on 's face and that give more Credit to their Ears than to their Eyes Now to ease the Reader in two or three peevish Points if he should chance to be over-critical and imperious I will tell him before-hand in a few words what he is to trust to To the first Question or Objection fairly supposed the Author is no disguised or concealed Papist but of the Communion of the Church of England train'd up in the strictest way of it and standing firm to it against all sorts of Provocation Discouragement Temptation and Argument and without warping to the Jesuits either on the right hand or on the left To the Second He is not set on to write this Discourse either directly or indirectly by any Hint Desire or Appointment whatsoever nor by any other Motive than the sense of what he owes to the Publique and to his Conscience and the Consideration of some small Present from the Book-seller if there be any thing got by 't A piece of Good Husbandry that he has learnt of his Superiors He has no design upon any Place at Court in 't nor upon any Church-Lease no not so much as a Reversion And all this is true by the Faith of a poor Gentleman that has worn his Doublet out at elbows in his Majesties Service It might be added that he 's grown old and Careless and that even Malice it self were lost upon him Now under these Circumstances I hope he may securely advance to tell you a little more of his mind So ●a● as Catholique and Protestant serve only as two several Names intending the self-same thing though the one by Protriety and the oth●● but b● Translation is all one to me whether of the two any man calls me all the danger is the countenancing of an ill Thing under a good Name The word Protestancy falls under a double acceptation the one as it denotes the Reformed Religion the other as it is taken for the Genus Generalissimum of all Dissenters from the Church of ●ome The former I do heartily embrace as transmitted to us from our Fore-fathers and Signed by the Blood of Martyrs authorized by the Holy Gospel and by the Law of the Land the common Bond of our Civil Peace and by Gods Blessing the Hopes and Means of our Eternal Salvation Now to the latter Acceptation I am not at all satisfied with it and I have both Reason and Experience to warrant me in that d●slike As to my Reason First It is an Agreement upon an Opposition and next it is an Agreement of several parties disagreeing among themselves which carries the face rather of a Confederacy than a Religion For it is not the Opposing of Error but the asserting of a Truth that mast do the work One Error may be opposed by another even in a single person as one man robs his Neighbour and a third robs him Here 's one Injustice opposed by another So that as it is an Agreement in Opposition 't is a hundred to one there will be Error in 't But the Opposers themselves being subdivided 't is impossible it should be Right for the very Essence and Soul of Religion are here wanting that is to say Charity and Vnity And for the proof of this beyond all Contradiction let but any man look back into the late Troubles and see when the Factions had destroyed the King and the Church which they called the Common Enemy how they fell presently to worrying of one another when the Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Quakers Seekers Ranters Antinomians and twenty other wild sorts of Sectaries under the title of Protestants and under the pretence of opposing Popery destroyed the very Cause they covenanted to assert a Protestant-Church a Protestant Prince and a protestant-Protestant-People filled the Land with Confusion Sacriledge and Herefie made the English Nation a Reproach and a Scandal to the Christian World And so soon as they had possessed themselves of the Power and Revenue of the Kingdom every mans hand was against his Brother for the Booty To proceed now to the matter of Experience I would fain see any one Instance from the ve●y Reformation it self to this day when ever there was a Clamour advanced upon this Point of a Conjunct Opposition of Popery that the Church of England was not struck at in the Confederacy and that too not by blind Inferences and tacit Presumption but by Overt Acts and a Notoriety of Practice That is to say the Men that stickled under this Notion did positively declare the Government by Bishops to be Antichristian and the Discipline and Common Prayers of the Church to be Popery and Superstition yes and the Civil Administration it self also to be downright Tyranny They did just like the Fellows in Hatton-Garden that stole Money and Plate under the pretence of Searching for Priests and for the Credit