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A46967	The tryal and examination of a late libel, intituled, A new test of the Church of Englands loyalty with some reflections upon an additional libel, intituled, An instance of the Church of Englands loyalty.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1680 (1680)	Wing J846; ESTC R16934	13,743	12

Arguing from the Church of England's Own Principles which he says is the Design of his Paper p. 6. Is it the Principle of any One Clergyman in England That the Doctrine of the Church of England is to be sought for and found out in Addresses Or in any thing but the Liturgy and Homilies the Articles and Canons of the Church which have the Publick Sanction and the Universal consent of the whole Clergy If he had found materials out of any of these to make good his charge of Disloyalty he had done like a Man and the Church of England had been Condemned out of her own Mouth But if he cannot do this at present we will have patience to stay till he can and in the mean time he had done wiselier to have said nothing 2. The Bishops and Clergy of several Convocations who have been Dead these Hundred years are rendred Disloyal for not governing themselves by these Addresses two years ago which they knew not of This is a great Hardship indeed that men shall be tryed and condemned by Laws which were not promulged till an Hundred years after their Death The present Church of England has a very great Reverence for those Bishops and Clergy who were the Restorers of the Protestant Religion to this Kingdom and who had formerly hazarded their Lives for it and will be very loth to see them pass under the Character of Traytors and Rebels And when we Demand What Laws of the Land or what Principles of the Church of England they had transgressed we are in effect told That they were Rebels against some chosen Expressions in very modern Addresses The Instance which he gives is the Church of England's behaviour towards Mary Queen of Scots above an Hundred years ago Now mark his words p. 5. But yet because I am about to give a notorious Instance of their Receding from this Principle namely the Divine Right of Succession when the Practise of it thwarted their Interest it will not be amiss to observe that they have Acknowledged in their several Addresses to his present Majesty upon his Accession to the Crown the Unalterable and Inherent Right of Succession Now this is the Reasoning which as I said before would make a Man stand upon his Head. Besides How could they Recede or go back from a Principle which they never came to and were never nearer it than than at an Hundred years Distance For their Opinion or Principle call it what you will was this as appears by the 27. Eliz. That in case an Heir in Remainder killed the present Lawful Possessor of the Crown that person had not a Divine Right of Succession And that neither God nor the Laws ever meant to Reward the falshood of Treason and the bloody Usurpation of a Crown with so much the Earlier possession of it My business is not to concern my self about either of these Principles or opinions but only to shew the absurd reasoning of this Writer 3. Mary Queen of Scots is made Queen of England by such an Argument as makes her no Queen of Scots and by giving her another's Kingdom takes away her own The Argument is this That Queen Elizabeth being Illegitimate and only an Act-of-Parliament-Queen could not interpose betwixt the Crown of England and Mary Queen of Scots who was Heir by Inherent Birth-right Now does not all the World know That all the Title that Mary Queen of Scots had to the Kingdom of Scotland was an Act of Parliament made at Scone in the time of Robert the First whereby his Issue by Elizabeth Moore his Concubine whom he never Married but who was afterwards Married to one Giffard a Gentleman of Louthien were made Inheritable to the Crown and at the same time all his Legitimate Children by his Lawful Queen Eupheme were set aside These men take just the same Measures as their Father Garnet did in the Gun-Powder Treason who Resolved That in order to blow up the Hereticks they might Lawfully blow up their Catholick Friends too Nay all that this Instancer says against Queen Elizabeth admitting it to be True which we do not bears much harder upon the Title of Mary Queen of Scots Was Queen Anns Marriage with Hen. 8. naught But in Elizabeth Moores Case there was no Marriage at all Or was King Edward set aside to make way for Illegitimate Elizabeth But so it was done by the Act at Scone Every body understands the English of Queen Ann Bolens Precontract when they Remember That King Henry the 8th was Married again to the Lady Iane Seymour within Three days after the Beheading of that Queen 4. Mary Queen of Scots is made Queen of England upon the Hypothesis of the Paternal Right p. 3. and 5. when upon that Hypothesis she was disinherited and foreclosed from the Crown of England by two Successive Patriarchs Henry the 8th and Edward the 6th Henry the 8th by his last Will and Testament excluded the House of Scotland and Edward the 6th by his Will excluded both that all his own Sisters likewise But as the Bishop of Ross argued against the first Will that it was not subscribed by his Graces own hand-writing as was directed by the Act of Parliament but only signed with a stamp of his Name so King Edward was never enabled by an Act of Parliament to dispose of the Crown at all And so neither of these Wills signified any thing because the Prince has no Power but what the Law gives him Whereas if these foresaid Princes had been Patriarchs and full of Inherent Paternal Power they could have Disinherited without an Act of Parliament For if a Father cannot Disinherit much less has he Power of Life and Death It were endless to reckon up all the awkerd and wilful mistakes which fill up that Sheet of Paper As where he insinuates p. 7. that the 13 th of Elizabeth was owing to the Queens Consciousness of the Insufficiency of her Title It is nothing so But it was made for the Preservation of her Person and that no body presuming upon an Unalterable and Unforfeitable Title in Reversion might immediately Destroy her An Act it is which is Law to this day and was recited 13 Caroli 2. and there Expresly made a Pattern for the 13th of his Reign And whereas he says p. 8. That before the Queen of Scots was taken off and so the Succession pretty well secured against Popery the Church of England never Persecuted any of her Protestant Dissenters but as soon as that Work was done and the Court likely to continue on their side then out flies the 35 Eliz. cap. 2. against Sectaries In those very few words there are a great many Blots For 1st I hope the 23 of Elizabeth was several years before the Death of the Queen of Scots and if that Act was not made against the Protestant Dissenters they have had the more wrong done them in having been since Prosecuted upon that Act. 2d He words it as if the 35 of

Office to Protect the Church of England as it is by Law established And therefore to talk of withdrawing Protection from the Church of England is to talk of removing the Thames to York But we are so much used to such empty threatnings and flashes in the pan that we know they will not kill So the Reply to the Oxford Reasons against Addressing threatens the Church of England that by the Prerogative in Matters Ecclesiastical it may be in great measure Legally Subverted p. 4. A Legal Establishment even while it remains such Legally Subverted● They would make us believe that the Laws of England were made up of Jesuitical AEquivocations and did blow Hot and Cold with the same mouth But besides That Replyer should be told that a thousand more of his pompous Quotations which were written in the time of the High Commission will not Revive that Branch of the Statute 1 Eliz. upon which the High Commission Court was erected And likewise he should be told that a Power given by One Statute and taken away afterwards by Two is certainly reduced to its Primitive nothingness But I return to our present Author only to take my leave of him which he has done of the Church of England in these words And now let us leave the Holy Mother Church at liberty to consult what new Measures of Loyalty she ought to take for her own dear Interest and for ought I know it may be worth her serious consideration I am in hopes That this Church of God which he hath purchased with his own Blood though this Author be pleased to trample upon her with so much Scorn and Insolence will take Occasion even at an Enemies bidding to consult what New Measures of Loyalty she ought to take for her own dear Interest and for the Interest of Posterity which is much dearer and for the Everlasting Interest of both which is dearest of all And will humbly and heartily Bewaile her Disloyalty to her great Lord and Master and those many and great and open Transgressions and Violations of His most Holy and Righteous Laws which are amongst us And O that every member of that Communion in particular would speedily repent and return to his Duty and persevere in a course of Holy Obedience to his lives end This is the Loyalty that is too much wanting in the Church of England which is due to the Laws of our Blessed Saviour who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords As for her Earthly Lords They cannot charge her with any Disobedient or Lawless carriage towards them or with any Disregard to the Laws unless perhaps in some unwarrantable Officious Instances which it would hardly be Proper for them to Object against her And to the end that both we and our Children after us may be Better Subjects to our Blessed Lord than hitherto we have been I am in hopes That the Church of England will lay a dead Hold upon that great Depositum which the Laws have put into her hands which is the only Instrument of our Reformation I mean the English Bible We are very bad now But what would become of us if we should likewise be deprived of the only means to make us better If all the Laws of the Land were Abolished there could be no Loyalty And if the Gospel were taken away which is the Laws and Statutes of Heaven how were it possible for us to be the Subjects of Jesus Christ We might indeed be the Servants of Men and Vassals to the Pope but we could not possibly obey the Gospel of Christ if it were taken and hid from us We remember full well who they were that would not suffer an English Bible to be in this Kingdom for very many Ages together And if any devout and Religious Soul who desired to know his Masters will had gotten but the Lords Prayer or Ten Commandments in English it cost him his Life We shall never forget the Seven Coventry Martyrs who were burned all together in the little Park the 4th of April 1519. for teaching their Children and Family the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandments in English. Nor shall we ever forget how the poor Children were sent for and charged in no wise to meddle any more with those very small Scriptures upon pain of suffering the same Death with their Parents What is once made Heresie by an Infallible Church must be always and every where Heresie though Heresie indeed is not every where Burning for want of opportunity Thanks be to God and our good Laws that it is not so here And I hope the Church of England will always be careful to assert the Authority and Majesty of the Laws which are so much to be preferred and valued above our Lives in as much as by them we enjoy both our Lives and the Protestant Religion together May God be entreated to continue this Unvaluable and Undeserved Blessing to us and to our Posterity Amen Some Reflections upon the Additional Libel intituled An Instance of the Church of England's Loyalty IT is a just Judgment upon those who have Renounced their Reason to embrace Transubstantiation and thereby have distorted their natural faculties That their Understandings stand awry for ever after and we cannot expect so much as Common sense from them any more From thenceforward they Write as well as Believe contradictious Mysteries and he that means to comprehend their awkerd and perverse reasonings must stand upon his Head. We need not go far to fetch Examples of this for the late Instance of the Church of Englands Loyalty is a remarkable Instance of all that I have said Wherein there are these following Absurdities delivered in a way of much smartness and with the appearence of very close Reasoning 1. The Articles and Canons of the Church of England are set aside and some few Addresses in this present Reign are made the Standard of the Doctrine of the Church of England 2. The Bishops and Clergy of several Convocations who have been Dead these Hundred years are rendred Disloyal for not governing themselves by these Addresses two years ago which they knew not of 3. Mary Queen of Scots is made Queen of England by such an Argument as makes her No Queen of Scots and by giving her anothers Kingdom takes away her own 4. Mary Queen of Scots is made Queen of England upon the Hypothesis of the Paternal Right when upon that Hypothesis she was disinherited and foreclosed from the Crown of England by two Successive Patriarchs Henry the 8. and Edward the 6. I should think for that very Reason That the Hypothesis of the Laws had been a much Better Hypothesis In the opening a little and shewing these Absurdities I suppose I shall meet with all that is remarkable in that Paper 1. The Articles and Canons of the Church of England are set aside and some few Addresses in this present Reign are made the Standard of the Doctrine of the Church of England p. 3. and 5. Is this