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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58386	Reflections upon the new test, and the reply thereto with a letter of Sir Francis Walsingham's, concerning the penal laws made in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.	Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590. Letter to Monsieur Critoy.	1687 (1687)	Wing R732; ESTC R6019	12,159	24

Reflections UPON THE NEW TEST AND The REPLY Thereto WITH A LETTER OF Sir FRANCIS WALSINGHAM's Concerning the PENAL LAWS Made in the REIGN of Queen ELIZABETH LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXXXVII REFLECTIONS UPON THE New Test AND The REPLY thereto THE design of the Test is to attack the Church of England's Loyalty and the substance of it is That she owns the King Supream Head in Ecclesiastical Affairs that she began under Ed. 6. and at his Death indeavour'd to set up a Brat of her own and exclude Queen Mary the only Legitimate because she was a Catholick after her Death Queen Elizabeth a known Bastard rais'd this Church again to support the weakness of her Title and no sooner was this Church under her re-establish'd than those Cannibal Laws were Enacted of Hanging the Priests of the living God together with other penal Laws that she Murder'd the Queen of Scots who was the undoubted Heir to the Crown that to Charles I. this Church was faithful but on the other hand to force an Universal Uniformity to her Liturgy c. was the occasion of that War and she now refuses to repeal the Test and penal Laws that the King will no longer trust her and that she should learn obedience from her Catholick Neighbours Thus far the Test To this is reply'd That the Church of England does own the Kings Supremacy and therefore thinks her self more Loyal than the Romanists who rob the King of that part of his Prerogative that after Ed. 6. Death the Kingdom was divided about the Title to the Crown some for Queen Mary some for Lady Jane and Protestants on both sides and while the Title was to them dubious neither party could be charged with Disloyalty That if Queen Eliz. was a known Bastard the Romanists were the disloyal Party in setting her upon the Throne and excluding the lawful Heir which they did by a Popish Parliament sitting at Queen Mary's Death so that it appeared by their own Parliament that Mary Queen of Scots was not lawful Heir and therefore it could be no disloyalty in Executing her for Treason That 't was not the Church of Englands Ambition from whence that War in Charles I. time ensued but from the division the Romanists had wickedly made amongst Protestants by one call'd Faithful Commin and others of the Fraternity then the Author recriminates shews it to be the declared opinion of the Church of Rome that she has power to Depose Princes and gives several instances where very often they have put that opinion into practice Thus far the Replyer The Replyer though he has sufficiently answer'd the Pamphlet yet since Loyalty is almost the onely thing which at this time recommends us to our Princes's Favour he might and ought to have given a more ample account of our Fidelity to Princes I shall now therefore take both the Test and the Reply into particular Examination and shew the defects of both But first I would willingly know what prospect the Author of the Test could have by publishing such a Pamphlet Was it to oblige his Party by drawing us out to expose both their Principles and Practices in point of Civil Obedience which may be with as great ease justly done as we can thrô off that malitious and false charge of his or was it to oblige the King by blowing up these Fears and Jealousies which his Majesty a gracious Father of his Country has us'd means to allay His Majesty tells us we are Loyal and assures us of his Protection the Test tells us we are Snakes in his Bosom and the King will not protect us for my part let this Fellow stare and brazen as he pleases I shall believe the King whatever he would have us think of him When so heavy a charge was laid upon our Church me thinks in reason the Author should have shew'd the World what Convocation or at least what private Doctor of our Communion ever acknowledg'd it as a Principle of our Church that disobedience to the supream Magistrate was upon any score whatsoever allowable that is that we might refuse both active and passive obedience for else admit he could instance that some of our Communion have acted Disloyally it proves no more than that some who have in outward appearance profess'd themselves to be with us were not really so nor did keep up to the Principles of our Church What 's more common than to see a Romanist drunk upon a Fasting Day but unless I hear them justifie the thing as allowable shall I reason from their bare practice that their Church allows Debauchery upon those dayes she has pointed out for Mortification Wherefore the Tests absolute silence herein demonstrates either that he is a great Dunce at Argument or that there is no such thing to be found in our Principles no not from the Testimony of any single Doctor And of this defect the Replyer takes no notice The Members of the Church of England says the Test were faithful to Charles I. but on the other hand their ambition to force Uniformity c. was cause of the ensuing War. He means if to the purpose That an ambition to force an Uniformity in Religion is Disloyalty which is a most admirable Discovery especially since the Church of Rome can so easily clear her self from the guilt of that Ambition If what he alledgeth were true his Reprehension is just like an old Drunkard in a drunken Fit railing against Drunkenness But the Replyer has shew'd him a more probable and natural cause of that War and has well referr'd to that Book of Foxes and Fire-brands which will give a reasonable Enquirer full satisfaction and further from thence well observes what excellent Subjects Romanists make to Protestant Kings We are not now to be surpriz'd with their Tests and such-like Pamphlets we are sensible the glorious Lustre of the Church of England does so offend and dazle their weak Eyes that it must be darken'd though the Fog be rais'd from Hell and therefore thus goes on the Test After Edward the Sixth's death Protestants endeavour'd to set up a Brat of their own to exclude Queen Mary because she was a Catholick at whose death Queen Elizabeth raised this Church to support the weakness of her Title and then they Murther'd the Queen of Scots who was the undoubted Heir to the Crown A Brat to exclude Queen Mary because a Catholick Nay we were more wicked than this for we set this Brat up too to exclude Queen Elizabeth because she was a Protestant for in excluding one we excluded both And if we thought we had power to pull down and put up as the Popes assume why did we not as well put up Elizabeth as Lady Jane The Index Expurgatorius has not yet done the honour of a Visit to our Modern Histories and therefore in them we find that by a Cabal onely of some of King Edward ' s Council he was prevail'd upon by his last Will and Letters-Patents to