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A64702 The church-papist (so-called), his religion and tenets fully discovered in a serious dispute ... whereby the common ... arguments of pretended visibility, succession, universality, &c., of the Roman Church ... are briefly confuted : whereunto is added, a short discourse proving episcopacy to be of divine institution, kingly government of Gods setting up, and the religion of the Church of England, to be the best in the world / by one of the children of the late captivity, 1680. Underwood, John, fl. 1680. 1680 (1680) Wing U46; ESTC R7367 28,086 42

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a Child than a Father for a People than their King The King hath tri'd it and whom can we trust but those that have tried and whom can a Child better trust than a Father and whom can we a People better trust than the Father of our Country our King a Nursing Father who had no end but the salvation of his Child the salvation of his People and to preserve them from Apostacy in the time of Tryal and Persecution they might meet with A King who was able to try laborious in the search judicious to discern and most wise and learned to judge who took care of us all as for his own soul was faithful before the Lord unto the death preferring his Religion before his Crowns and Life the Church and his People before his own safety no torment inflicted on his Body could make a Conquest of his Soul for his unvanquished Fortitude after many hard Conflicts bitter Afflictions and Indignities heaped on him witnessed the truth of the holy Faith and Religion of the Church of England by giving up his Life for the same so imitating his Saviour subscribed and signed the Truth with his last blood Kings are Divinely inspired as by the Actions and Writings of this Holy One is sufficiently evidenced The Eyes of God are with Kings on their Throne Job 36.7 The King is an Angel of God to discern good and bad 2 Sam. 14.17 20. An Angel of Light and to whom then should we repair for Righteous Judgment but to him who sees with Gods byes to the Angel of Light to the Light of Israel 〈◊〉 Isiah 8.19 Never was there a Test in any Age or Nation like it what doubt can there be of the purity and truth of the Profession but that every man may safely take and subscribe to our Religion upon this Tryal and Centre his Trust upon this Testimony and Evidence and Author it here for ever What better proof can the whole World produce Is it not worth ten thousaend 2 Sam. 18.3 Yet not wholly to take it upon the trust of others and be led to implicithess barely to take our Profession of Religion from other mens Custom or Tradition as he said this good King hath given us a light and marked us out a way to confirm our selves in it to make it our own by Election in weighing it with sound Reason and Judgment though hodietter Lessons than from his Divine Truths and Testimony can be offered to the World and so hath put us to School to the most Choice Learned Religious and Rational Treatises of holy Churchmen upon the point that we must acknowledg though we are owing to Education for initiating and first Principling us in our Religion we are wholly owing to his Directions convincing Arguments and Divine Testimony for the Confirmation of us in it in it in the best Religion in the world which he hath taken by Divine Inspiration from above not sole Infusion beneath by Revelation from Heaven not Education Seducement or Custom on Earth and Heaven it self hath hallowed and approved it by the late miraculous replanting the same Profession of Religion and Faith in this Land and restoring the Royal Defender thereof in peace Hope not then Oh thou full of wicked Imaginations that any Branch of that Royal and Holy Stem can be of any other Religion than the best in the world even the Reformed Religion professed and established in the Church of England Thou shalt not Revile the Gods nor speak evil of the Ruler of thy People Exod. 2.21 Acts 23. Think not then that any Child of so pious and sacred a Parent can despise the Admonition of an Angel of Light and his Book as Heretical and abandon that Religion the best Religion so recommended so proved and the Truth thereof so confirmed but will Religiously observe such Divine Admonitions and Holy Injunctions and will Bind them for a Sign upon his Hands and to the as Frontlets between his Eyes always before him Deut. 6. that it may be well with him for ever and not by following strange Gods and those ways he was warned to avoid and beware of Rob the dead the most innocent dead his Royal Father of the Glory of his Sufferings of his Crown of Martyrdom for this were to unsweeten the memory of the purest Innocence next the Saviour of the world that ever was born of a Woman This were which is a most malitious wickedness but to imagine not only to Countenance his Enemies cruelty that murthered his Body but more barbarously against all Humanity and bonds of Nature to crucifie his Honour to slay his everlasting Name and Memory to render him Inglorious his Death a Reproach to defile his Sacred Dust to raise a Persecution against him in his Grave worse than all the smarts and horrid terrors of his Life to render his Religion that Religion which he watred with his Blood a Heresie and himself a most grand Heretick so consequently to die deservedly and the destruction of him and his faithful Subjects in defence of him and the Church to be Righteous as if his Enemies depriving him of his Crowns on Earth were not sufficient but his dear Off-spring to ravish from him also that which he hath in Glory to help the Popish and Phanatick Enemies to dethrone a Saint and unsaint a Martyr that is Canoniz'd in Heaven to pull him from thence and as much as in them lies to tear his precious Name out of the Book of Life to make blacker his days on Earth than all the malice of his Enemies could ever make it to take his blessed Memory out of the Kalendar of Time to eraze it out of the Rubrick to repeal and make scandalous the Statute of the Realin that hath ordained his day his day of Glory his day of sufferings for the Church the Thirtieth of January to be observed for even to ravish his Name from the number of the Good and Vertuous on Earth to take the Head of the grand Rebel O. C. from the Pole of Infamy and to rank that Usurpers Bones again amongst the Shrines of Kings and even to marble his Herse into a Statue amongst the Worthies of England But never can the blessed Name and Honour of Holy Charles be thus stormed whilst the Earth shall bear any Successor on the British Throne descended from his sacred Loyns and God grant his Race to Sway the Scepter may be as lasting as the Sun and Moon Repent therefore Oh thou Dissenter from all Charity and Goodness of this thy wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee No Insidel that had seen the Finger of God in the late great Restauration of Church and State but would have embraced the Faith of the Church of England in the Notion and Manner as Religion is here Established upon the account of the Miracle only as may well be concluded from that credible Relation given of a great Prince or Vizier in the Ottoman