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Some reflections on the oaths & declaration appointed in an act past in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary in reference to the Roman Catholicks of England / by Sir D.W. Baronet, of the church of Rome.
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D. W., Sir.
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1695
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Wing W12; ESTC R1216
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE Oaths Declaration Appointed in an Act past in the first Year of the Reign of King William AND Queen Mary In reference to the Roman Catholicks of England By Sir D. W. Baronet of the Church of Rome LONDON Printed in the Year MDCXCV To my worthy good Friend SIR IT was not yet my hap to be tendered the new Oaths but supposing that at some time it may since in the last Sessions of Parliament there were Agitations for barring all Persons from Voices in Elections of Members for Parliament and from Practice in their Professions besides the Penalties of this Statute and Paiment of double Taxes in case of refusing to Swear and Declare as by this Act is required These and some other Considerations needless to particularize put me on search into the Quality and Sense of these Oaths with the Duty and Lawfulness of taking or refusing them And first I observed that in these Oaths there is no declaring or swearing to the King's Supremacy in any Things or Causes nor a Renunciation of the Rights or Titles of any other Person nor a Promise of Faith and Allegiance to the present Prince's Heirs and lawful Successors nor an Acknowledgment before God and the World of the King 's lawful Title to this Realm nor a swearing to the plain and common Sense of the Words all which were Parts of the former Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and might have raised Scruples if inserted in these that are now frivolous I likewise observe that the nonjurat Protestants and the Catholicks are not by the same Reasons induced to refuse to take these Oaths the one having sworn the former the latter generally refusing them On the whole I have made the Reflections which I herewith present to you my truly dear Friend I will not affirm to you that I am so fully satisfied in this Enquiry as that I am resolved to take these Oaths when required so to do nor will I conceal from you that my private Opinion is that I may as a sound Catholick with a safe Conscience without Hazard of Salvation both take these new Oaths and subscribe the Declaration now framed by Parliament The Matters therein contained are entirely within the Consideration of the Laws of the Kingdom without any relation to the Mysteries of Faith and therefore I believe you a competent and proper Iudg herein and earnestly request you to give me your Thoughts hereof I would not that it should be said of me Incidit in Scillam qui vult vitare Charibdim I resolve to be governed by your Sentiments of this Affair and ever to acknowledg to the World that I very much honour you and am SIR 1st May 1695. Your real and affectionate Servant Because in reading these Reflections there may be occasion for comparing the several Oaths I have here set them down at large The Oaths and Declaration in the Act of 1 Will. Mar. 1. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to his Majesty King William So help me God c. 2. I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical that damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever 3. And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Iurisdiction Power Superiority Prehemmence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual wâ—thin this Realm So help me God c. The Oath of Supremacy framed in the Act 1 Eliz. c. 1. which Oath is now abrogated I A. B. do utterly testify and declare in my Conscience That the King's Majesty is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or Causes as Temporal And that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign Iurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the King's Highness his Heirs and lawfull Successors and to my Power shall assist and defend all Iurisdictions Privileges Preheminencies and Authorities granted or belonging to the King's Highness his Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and the Contents of this Book The Oath of Allegiance in the Stat. 3 Iac. 1. which Oath is now abrogated I A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledg profess testify and declare in my Conscience before God and the World That our Sovereign Lord King James is lawful King of this Realm and of all other his Majesty's Dominions and Conntries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any Power or Authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesty's Kingdoms or Dominions or to authorize any foreign Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty or to give Licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any Violence or Hurt to his Majesty's Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesty's Subjects within his Dominions Also I do swear from my Heart That notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my Power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best Endeavours to disclose and make known to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical this damnable Doctrine or Position That Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath Power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledg by