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england_n	brethren_n	lord_n	zion_n	14	3	8.4642	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45131	The healing paper, or, A Catholick receipt for union between the moderate bishop & sober non-conformist, maugre all the aversation of the unpeaceable by a follower of peace, and lover of sincerity.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1678 (1678)	Wing H3680; ESTC R5168	36,943	44

envy of others Of carelesness through the impossibility of a due attendance on a double or trebble charge Of more worldly mindedness a looser life and so of ill example of ten times unto their flocks whereby the Souls of many Parishes which ought to be more precious to the Minister than his Maintenance are sinfully neglected to the offence of Almighty God and the hazzard of their own and their peoples Salvation I would have no Clergy-man henceforward be suffered to enjoy any more than one Living or Cure of Souls and one Dignity at one time and that every man without exception that hath more than one of either should immediately give up the rest to be distributed among those who shall be Comprehended or brought into the Established Order Which that they may also be obtained and possessed with a clear Conscience and that grievous Corruption of Simony may be extirpate out of the Land I wish that Every Patron that shall hence forward present his Clerk to any Living may have the Oath called the Simoniacall Oath imposed on himself no lesse than on the Incumbent which I perceive since I writ this is petitioned for by the Schollars of Oxford and if he refuses to take it that then the Bishop should have immediate power taking only the same Oath of presentation in his Room By such Materialls as these put into the hands of a Skillfull workman by the Order of our Master builders and by such a course or courses as this or these thoroughly persued the name of the great God would be exceedingly honoured in the integrity and ingenuity of those Gentlemen who have Benefices in their donation in the self deny all of those Ministers who have Pluralities in in their possession in the restauration of several ejected painfull Laborers into the Vineyard in the generall advancement of Piety and that interest which is Heavenly above worldly advantage in the unity peace and mutual agreement of Brethren in the same function differing mainly in things indifferent in the universall good will among the People and in the established Happiness and Prosperity of the Church of England to future Generations In that time shall the Present be brought unto the Lord of Hosts of a people scattered and peeled meeted out and troden under foot to the place of the Name of the Lord of Hosts Mount Zion Deo Gloria Authori Condonatio An Advertisement Reader I thought here to Reprint my Paper about the Oxford-Oath which seems to be made necessary by my Reference to it p. 31. but because the Matter thereof is incident with that of the Subscription I suppose it may be spared I must signifie also that whereas I have dropt the two Letters of my Name in reference to my Subscription in p. 19. I cannot and I do not let it go as one that is a present Actual Subscriber but as one under Deliberation to proceed or not as I can and no otherwise than I can according to my Conscience with the flow hast of others Advice and my own setled Judgment Adieu FINIS A Postscript THis Paper being a Countermine against Popery I do think fit to hasten it out that the Members of Parliament may have competent time to consider of it this Session I did not think the later Part would have been so seasonable as I humbly believe it may be now to the most of those who desire a long Life for the King and the Growth of the Protestant Religion It was almost Despair set me on the Work and now there is a little Hope got into my Heart that something may come of this Endeavour and God's Blessing be upon it The Reason why I annex this Half Sheet to the rest is because I find it necessary in regard to that one Clause in the Subscription And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath I desire the Reader here to remember that I subscribe not this Clause by vertue of an Interpretation for I think the meaning of the Law giver to be more then I can subscribe unto but by virtue of my Liberty of Exception and Restriction I do therefore distinguish between the Matter Covenanted which is the Extirpation of Prelacy or Change of Government and the Act of Covenanting which was their swearing to endeavour it I would have the Reader then note also that I subscribe not that the Oath in the Matter Covenanted was in it self unlawful for this Matter Covenanted I have said may be considered Precisely in it self or Complexly with its Circumstances and more particularly under the Circumstance of the King's Remonstrances against the Covenant I do believe that an Endeavour of any Alteration of Government under this Circumstance of the King's Prohibitions that is for any to go about it without his Consent and against it as I speak was Vnlawfull though I suppose it not so under the contrary Circumstances if the King had allowed it and consequently that it is not so in its self if we respect onely this Matter Covenanted But for as much as an Act becomes Evil upon every Defect when all Circumstances must concur to make an Action Good and he that swore this Covenant could not swear to the Matter Precisely but Complexly considered that is to the Matter under this Circumstance with others I do apprehend that the matter being thereby render'd evil the Oath as taken for the Act of Covenanting in regard to this Circumstance was in it self unlawful It may be pleaded that the Covenant maintaines the King and his Authority to the full and limits this Endeavour to mens Places and Callings and that there was therefore nothing in this unlawfull I reply If any man should argue rather that the supream Power of this Nation does lie in the King and the Parliament as one Corporation and when they were divided and the Parliament could not be dissolved the Constitution was at an end or Interstition That consequently every one any one might covenant at that time to set up a new Government without the consent of Either King or Parliament by the way of an Agreement of the People This were to say something But to own the King and his Authority and swear to maintain it in the same Oath wherein they swear to change the Government when he declares against that Change that is without him and against his Authority this is vertually a contradiction in Adjecto and makes the Oath in the very act it self of swearing if that be or may go for the Oath in it self unlawful Again To swear that in our place and calling we will endeavour to change the Government when the King refuses his consent What is it but to swear to do that in the doing whereof we must Act out of our Place and Calling seeing there is and can be no Endeavour of that kind in our Place and Calling but what is done with Subordination to his Consent in an Act of Parliament You will say perhaps It is true that they