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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Territories who hearing the Story of the Stupendious Miracle of restoring the King of England to his People and the Protestant Religion to the Nation even the sudden Redemption from Banishment and returning the Captivity of Church and People in peace in the midst of Armies without bloodshed was startled into an Amazement and holy Rapture and in the high Transport passionately cryed out Oh had I the happiness to be acquainted with that blessed Prince His Religion should be my Religion His God should be my God It is no new thing that Miracles have Converted Nations but 't is a strange thing that there should be so stupid and benummed a Generation of Men in any Nation whom Miracles move not even this wondring of the Mahumetan like Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 3.29 There is no other God can deliver after this sort in a holy Reverence to this power of the Almighty and work of his Mercy is a kind of Adoration of the God of the Protestants of England and as much as in him lies an embracing of the Faith in his Heart Can then any Christian of England forget these Magnalia Caeli or forsake that Faith Doctrine Worship and Discipline which not the Arm of Flesh but the Might of Providence hath so amazingly Replanted and Sceptred in this Land and be good This Profession of the Church of England is apparently owned by God himself to be his own Church for lately taking of his Rod of Correction and in his good time ceasing Chastising his People whom he for their sins had afflicted he dissipated all Sects from Government and every Religion from Establishment but that which he call'd back from Captivity which he Redeemed from Thraldom to Liberty and to him who continued his Faith he restored his Kingdoms for the sake of the Church he re-Inthron'd the King in his Rights and for the sake of the King he re-Established the Church Oh the Majesty and Divinity of Kings whose Government is Ordained by God himself By me Kings Reign c. Diadema Regis in manu Dei Isa 62.3 The Lord doth set the Crown upon the Kings head Psal 21.3 Kings are of Gods setting up 1 Sam. 9.10 17. 1 Sam. 10.24 See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen and ought not to be of the Peoples pulling down They are Christi Domini the Lords Anointed Touch not mine Anointed c. And who can stretch forth his Hand against the Lords Anointed and be guiltless 1 Sam. 26.9 Every mans right the property of every English Man is preserved to him by the Law per Magnum Chartam Anglia so the Right of Kings is conveyed and confirmed to them by the great Charter of Heaven an indelible Law greater than that of the Medes and Persians that no man may presume to attempt to alter Kings have their Titles from above and hold their Kingdoms under God for all Kingdoms are his and not the Peoples He establishes Thrones and Kingdoms for ever 1 Chron. 28.4 5. and Chap. 29. v. 23.2 Sam. 7.13 Psal 89. A King is more honoured than the Angels hath Gods more peculiar Divine Stamp upon him and is made the Son of God I have chosen him to be my Son and I will be his Father Chron. 28.6 2 Sam. 7.14 And who can without highest Rebellion to the King of Heaven attempt to deface this holy Stamp by approaching to hurt Gods Son and Vicegerent in Office or Person The Persons of Kings are sacred invested with Divinity which strike an Awe on all good men This David when a Subject well knew and felt and Adored the Divinity David the most undaunted Courage of the Earth the great Champion of Israel whom no danger could affright that encountred the mighty Goliah in the Head of the puissant Army of the Philistins was the most Valiant of the World that slew his ten thousands yet when his King though a single Person became his Enemy and sought his Life causelesly to take it away he could not lift up a hand against his Person when it seemed easie to have destroyed him in the Cave dread fell upon David and his heart smote him but for cutting off the Skirt of Saul's Garment 1 Sam. 24.5 and said The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords Anointed to stretch forth mine Hand against him seeing he is the Anointed of the Lord v. 6.10 And David though he knew he was to succeed Saul in the Throne and be King after him and had a second opportunity to have been avenged of his Enemy Saul who again pursued after his Life and might have slain him in his Trench and put to the Sword his whole Guard of Armed Men whilst they lay sleeping yet he became afraid to unsheath a Sword against his Enemy to cut him off and would not permit any man to hurt the Lords Anointed but saved him from danger 1 Sam. 26.9 11. Yea sharply robuked the Kings Guards for being no more watchful over their Charge telling them what they for their Carelesness justly deserved Ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your Master the Lords Anointed v. 16. Now to escape meriting this Sentence of David let all English Spirits unite in a vigilant Care to preserve his Sacred Majesty our Royal Master the Lords Anointed the Protector and Defender of us all Let every good Subject and Son of the Reformed Church the Protestant Church of England still Fear God and Honour the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Prov. 24.21 Vigeat Ecclesia Anglicana verè Catholica Vivat Rex Angliae Regum Protestantissimus Exurgat Deus And let the Enemies of both be for ever dispersed Amen FINIS

this the Church loseth not her Right But to take away the Government by Bishops from the Church without her Authority or Consent is to cut off great part of her self and to deprive her of much of her Being And for Lay-men to encroach upon her Government and force it from her is to rifle her of her Divine Right devolved to her as aforesaid The Authority came not from the Laity so they have nothing to do therewith and no Authority to disturb it For who can touch the Ark of God though in their Judgment it should seem to totter and be guiltless when Uzziah's indiscreet Zeal was so severely punished and what misery did such misguided popular Zeal lately bring on this Nation in rudely medling with God's Ark the Church and pulling down that Government and those Governours they should Religiously have obeyed And if Uzzah's fault whose fervent Zeal was to uphold not overthrow the Ark was followed with so great destruction on his body what punishment may they from Divine Justice expect who through Malice Avarice and Ambition seek to destroy the Government and Authority of the ancient Church of God Think not then Oh thou perverse Enemy of the Apostolical Government of Gods Church that your expectation of a change in this Age can have any foundation that they who enact just Laws can propose unjust things to be enacted that any one Member of the whole Community any one of the Representatives of us Lay-men in this Lay-Parliament will adventure to lay violent hands on the Church of Christ by endeavouring to pull down her Governours from their Seat to lay her desolate to bid defiance to the Spouse of Christ and so make War again against the Soul of the Lords anoynted for rothing can pass into a Law but by Royal Assent and what unhallowed Lip dare offer at a motion savouring of abolishing that radieated Government which his Majesty not only by his Education and choice hath received and following the Wisdom and Piety of his Forefathers and Predecessors hath approved and confirmed as most Catholick and Sacred but obliged by solemn and sacred Tie of an Oath at his Coronation to preserve and maintain with all the Legal Rights of the Church Who can be so impious to lay a snare for his precious Soul or so vile to imagine to prevail in endeavouring to wheadle him to so great a Transgression as the horrid sin of Perjury and to betray his Mother the Church to be worried again by her inveterate Enemies and so consequently himself at last to be at the discretion and mercy of the same Gang who have been as ready to unhinge the State as unsettle the Church and do assuredly expect the one from the other that 't is more than likely the old Design is now a new on foot for every stroke that hurts the Church doth wound the State It would be strange and savour much of Satanism if any should advise a Son from inheriting his Fathers Virtues to set at nought the Holy Counsel of so great a Saint in Heaven not to observe the pious Injunctions and Admonitions of a Religious King and Father whose dying Speeches as if he had bequeathed his Piety and Religion his Zeal and Honour for the Church to be a Portion for his Children and a Glory to the Crown in his Successor obliged the Prince of Wales our present Sovereign by a sweet invitation of Reason and Righteousness to stand firm to the Religion in which he was educated amongst his admirable Instructions divine Admonitions and Advices he saith Above all I would have you as I hope you are already well grounded and settled in your Religion The best Profession of which I have esteemed that of the Church of England in which you have been Educated Yet I would have your Judgment and Reason now Seal to that Sacred Bond which Education hath written that it may be judicially your own Religion and not other men's Custom or Tradition which you profess In this I charge you to persevere as coming nearest to God's Word for Doctrine and to the primitive examples for Government And in another place he adds I do require and intreat you as your Father and your King that you never suffer your heart to receive the least check against or disaffection from the true Religion established in the Church of England I tell you I have tried it and after much search and many Disputes have concluded it to be the best in the World not only in the Community as Christian but also in the special notion as Reformed keeping the middle way between the pomp of superstitions Tyranny and the meanness of fantastick Anarchy Now behold Oh ye Enemies of the Reformed Church of England yea all the World behold the Profession of this pure Religion is confirmed to be the truest on Earth by the most signal and Authentick Proof under Heaven a Proof that bears Majesty yea Divinity in it 't is descended from on High Kings are Gods on Earth The King the most Sacred of Kings hath tried it and 't is the Honour of a King to search out a Matter Prov. 25.2 God's Vicegerent made it the great Business and work of his Life to search for Truth and pure Profession of Religion and in the controverting confounded all the Arguments and Argumentators against God's Church to their Amazement and Confusion He in the Decision would not part with one jot of Truth to betray or oppress the Church His Righteousness he held fast and would not let it go Job 26.6 for when he was in the cruel hands of his implacable Enemies oven a Captive at their dispofal at New-Castle far from the Aid of good Men or Books to assist and comfort him at this disadvantage as if God had delivered him as he did Job to be buffeted by Satan and winnowed their great Champion of their new Gospel Dr. H. the deputed Tempter of the Synod and Commons House furnished with all the ensnaring Arguments Sedition and Treason could invent was sent to captivate the Soul of his Soveraign and ruffle him out of his Faith thereby to lay a stone for their new Babel but met with such Divine and convincing Reasons from the King who so concisely and sweetly answered every point of their long studied and tedious Sophisms as overcame the Giant and all his Host of sophistrated Arguments that returning in high discontent to those who sent him in great discomposure of Spirit furiously cryed out Never man spake as the King spake and argued as the King argued he is able to confound ye all c. and being enraged that he was vanquished fell into a Conflict of Spirit and not long after finished his days Kings represent God are Children of the Most High Sit upon Gods Throne the King hath tryed it and where was there ever or can be found on earth a Prince for Piety Religion and Wisdom his equal or one like him and who can be more concern'd for