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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26384	An address given in to the late King James, by the titular Archbishop of Dublin from the General meeting of the Romish bishops and clergy of Ireland, held in May last, by that Kings order : wherein several things relating to the popish designs upon these three kingdoms are discovered : the original whereof was found in the late King James closet, in the Castle of Dublin, at his leaving that city and the copy whereof was found in the titular Archbishop's : lodgings : now published with reflection on each paragraph.	Russell, Patrick, 1629-1692.	1690 (1690)	Wing A542; ESTC R216298	14,129	36

the imputation of wilfulness and moroseness thrown upon them by their Enemies upon the account of their Refusal in this matter since the Papists themselves acknowledge in the above-mentioned Paragraph That these Laws were originally enacted to abolish the Roman-Catholick Religion and to be the main hinderance of its advancement And indeed they must have been very blind that did not see through the Designs of the late Reign in their Intriegues of repealing these Laws And it were a great Reflection upon the Wisdom of the Dissenters to think they had any other thoughts of the Court-Designs at that time or that they could be brought to imagine there was any real kindness meant towards them either in the Toleration granted them or in the Insinuations made them to take off the Penal Laws For there was no Party of men more odious to the Papists than the Dissenters notwithstanding of all the Caresses made them merely to juggle them into their own Ruine and the Ruine of the Church of England MEMORIAL IIdly Whereas Almighty God of his Divine Providence has placed Bishops in his Church bought and redeemed by the Price of his most Precious Blood for to rule and govern the same and for to enlighten the People into the true and only way of Salvation as is apparent in Holy Writ It followeth by an unavoidable consequence that it is not only conducive but also absolutely requisite for the establishment of this Roman-Catholick Church in its due lustre and decorum in this Kingdom That the Prelates and other Clergy thereof be restored to their Livings Churches and full exercise of their Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction without which it is not to be expected that they can prevail to repress the Vices most swaying in this Age and make the Christians improve themselves with more serious application in the observance of God's Law and in the wholsome practice of Piety and Virtue For we find by Experience that the People now-a-days generally speaking will not much heed or regard the Exhortations or Threatnings of their Ghostly Directors when they see them reduced to so low an ebb of Indigence as to depend of themselves for their spiritual Power and Authority REFLECTIONS In the last Reign we were industriously told over and over again by the Late King's Emissaries That there was never any thing of a Design to invade the Livings or Revenues of the Church or of applying of them to any body else but those of the Church of England Here the Mask is taken off and the true Design of appropriating the Revenues of the Church to the use of the Roman-Catholicks alone is downright confest This was really design'd long before And we had Bishops consecrated by the Pope for almost all the Bishopricks of England and Ireland But the Affair was not ripe enough to install them in their Livings These Bishops by the Canon-Law and by the acknowledgment of all the Lawyers of Rome Had an undoubted legal Right to the Revenues of their Titular Bishopricks and that immediately upon their being nominated by the Pope Likeas the Protestant Bishops were but Usurpers and illegal Possessors of those Revenues if we believe Romish Casuists Now they put King James in mind of his gracious Declaration to them upon that Subject And they must have their Foot in and the new Possessors as they take the Protestants to be must be set a packing for good and all At the end of this Paragraph our Irish Bishops and Provincials do formally contradict their so much cry'd-up Vow of Poventy And tell us plainly That the People will not have regard to the Advices of their Ghostly Directors when they see them reduc'd to so low an ebb of indigence as to depend of themselves for their spiritual Power and Authority Here they plainly insinuate that Poverty is obstructive of the Peoples profiting by their directions And thence it is They must have the Livings of the Clergy restor'd to them to give a greater lustre to their spiritual Power and Authority At this rate the Clergy of the first three Centuries and the Mendicant Orders of their own Church of Rome must have very little success in their Ministerial Functions since they of old did absolutely depend and these new Orders do yet upon the sole Charity of the People MEMORIAL IIIdly Though it may perhaps seem to some Politicks that this Restoring the Roman-Catholick Religion and Clergy here to their Livings Churches Iurisdiction and Privileges may be inconsistent at present with the Prospect of Your Majesty's Affairs in England and may alienate the Affections of the Protestants there from giving a helping hand as may be expected towards Your Majesty's Restauration yet with submission we conceive that this Objection carries more seeming than solid Reason for when did it ever prove successful to Your Majesty or to any of Your Royal Predecessors so far to humour the Protestants of England in Concerns of this nature relating to the Glory of God and good of Souls What return did they make in these latter times to Your Majesty's manifold Condescentions and Indulgences to them Did not they even their Chief Clergy bring in Foreign Power to invade Your Throne without regarding the Loyalty and Allegiance they swore unto You Moreover if those Protestants Laity and Clergy of England or any of them be now turn'd really Loyal and well-affected to Your Majesty surely they will not in any reason be displeased or grudge that in this Your Catholick Kingdom always Loyal Your Majesty should establish as aforesaid the Roman Religion as also the Clergy thereof who always preach and teach Loyalty and Obedience to their King to be an essential Maxim of the Religion and Law of God Neither will the said Protestants upon that consideration of Your Majesty's Gracious Restoring the Roman-Catholick Religion and Clergy as desired flinch off or desist from co-operating to Your Majesty's Restauration no more than the Irish Roman-Catholicks have done when deprived of their Estates and brought under severe Laws against their Religion yet always kept touch to their Loyalty and Allegiance in defending Your Majesties Cause On the other side if the said Protestants be not sincerely Loyal but only Act for their own Temporal Interest under the pretext of Religion in their usual manner how can Your Majesty much rely upon their assistance or after Your Restoration which God send soon and happy expect that they will give You any way but rather all imaginable hindrance to establish as you purpose the Roman-Catholick Religion and Clergy in this Your Kingdom of Ireland in that full manner aforesaid REFLECTIONS Here in the beginning of this Paragraph we have fairly insinuated the true Reasons why King James did not restore when upon the English Throne the Roman Catholick Religion and the Clergy to their Livings Churches Jurisdictions and Privileges tho he design'd to do it when it was convenient The Reason was It was inconsistent with the good of King James 's Affairs at that time But why