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The healing attempt examined and submitted to the Parliament convocation whether it be healing or hurtful to the peace of the church.
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Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.
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1689
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Wing L2968; ESTC R26161
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Jesuits offer more danger or are to be more speedily supprest for albeit the Jesuits do poison the Hearts of Her Majesty's Subjects under a pretence of Conscience they do it but closely and only in corners but these Men do both publish in their printed Books and teach in all their Conventicles sundry Opinions not only dangerous to the well-setled State and Policy of the Realm by putting a Pique between the Clergy and the Laity but also much derogatory to her Sacred Majesty and her Crown as well by the diminution of her Ancient and Lawful Revenues and by denying her Highness's Prerogative and Supremacy as by offering Peril to Her Majesty's Safety in her own Kingdom in all which things however in many other points they pretend to be at War with the Popish Jesuits yet by the separation of themselves from the Unity of their Fellow-Subjects and by abusing the Sacred Authority and Majesty of their Prince they do both joyn and concur with the Jesuits in opening the Door and preparing the way to the Spanish Invasion that is threatned against the Realm And in the Year 1588 as Cambden observes in his Annals the King of Spain being thereto encouraged by an Information of the great Divisions and Animosities among us by Reason whereof he expected either a greater Party to joyn with him or a less Opposition sent his Invincible Armado upon our Coasts at which time the Protestant Dissenters instead of Arming in Defence of the Queen and themselves did with greater Importunity and Confidence assault her with Petitions and Libels taking advantage of the Times as if they were more ready to assist the Spaniards than Her Majesty in case their unreasonable Requests were not granted As for Bishop Jewel if he said any thing in their favour they ill requited him for on his Preaching a Sermon at St. Paul's Cross in defence of the Orders of the Church and Obedience to them he was so spitefully used by them that in his own Vindication he made a Solemn Protestation on his Death-bed that what he then said was neither to please some nor displease others but to promote Peace and Unity among Brethren of which Arch-Bishop Whitgift in his Defence p. 433. says It is the manner except you please their Humour in all things though you otherwise deserve never so well all is nothing with them but they will deprave you rail on you back-bite you invent lyes of you and spread false rumours as though you were the vilest persons on Earth By these insolent proceedings of the Sectaries and Papists in Confederacy the Queen was necessitated to pass those Acts of the 23 and 35 of her Reign to retain Her Majesty's Subjects in due Obedience And this also gave occasion to that Proclamation of the Queen 1588. against Seditious and Schismatical Books and Libels By the QUEEN A Proclamation against certain Seditious and Schismatical Books and Libels c. THE Queens most Excellent Majesty considering how within these few years past and now of late certain seditious and evil-disposed persons towards her Majesty and the Government established for causes Ecclesiastical within her Majesty's Dominions have devised written printed or caused to be seditiously and secretly published and dispersed sundry schismatical and seditious Books diffamatory Libels and other Phanatical Writings amongst her Majesty's Subjects containing in them Doctrine very erroneous and other matters notoriously untrue and slanderous to the State and against the Godly Reformation of Religion and Government Ecclesiastical established by Law and so quietly of long time continued and also against the persons of Bishops and others placed in Authority Ecclesiastical under her Highness by her Authority in railing sort and beyond the bounds of all good humanity All which Books Libels and Writings tend by their scope to perswade and bring in a monstrous and apparent dangerous Innovation within her Dominions and Countries of all manner of Ecclesiastical Government now in use and to the abridging or rather to the overthrow of her Highness lawful Prerogative allowed by God's Law and established by the Laws of the Realm and consequently to reverse dissolve and set at liberty the present Government of the Church and to make a dangerous change of the form of Doctrine and use of Divine Service of God and the Ministration of the Sacraments now also in use with a rash and malicious purpose also to dissolve the Estate of the Prelacy being one of the three ancient Estates of this Realm under her Highness whereof her Majesty mindeth to have such a reverend regard as to their places in the Church and Common-wealth appertaineth All which said lewd and seditious practices do directly tend to the manifest wilful breach of great number of good Laws and Statutes of this Realm inconveniencies nothing regarded by such Innovations In-consideration whereof her Highness graciously minding to provide some good and speedy Remedy to withstand such notable dangerous and ungodly Attempts and for that purpose to have such enormous Malefactors discovered and condignly punished doth signifie this her Highness misliking and indignation of such dangerous and wicked Enterprizes and for that purpose doth hereby will and also straightly charge and command that all persons whatsoever within any her Majesty's Realms and Dominions who have or hereafter shall have any of the said seditious Books Pamphlets Libels or Writings or any of like nature already published or hereafter to be published in his or their custody containing such matters as above are mentioned against the present Order and Government of the Church of England or the Lawful Ministers thereof or against the Rites and Ceremonies used in the Church and allowed by the Laws of the Realm That they and every of them do presently after with convenient speed bring in and deliver up the same unto the Ordinary of the Diocess or of the place where they inhabit to the intent they may be utterly defaced by the said Ordinary or otherwise used by them And that from henceforth no person or persons whatsoever be so hardy as to write contrive print or cause to be published or distributed or to keep any of the same or any other Books Libels or Writings of like nature and quality contrary to the true meaning and intent of this her Majesty's Proclamation And likewise that no man hereafter give any instruction direction favour or assistance to the contriving writing printing publishing or dispersing of the same or such like Books Libels or Writings whatsoever as they tender her Majesty's good favour will avoid her high displeasure and as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perils and upon such pains and penalties as by the Law any way may be inflicted upon the offenders in any of these behalfs as persons maintaining such seditious actions which her Majesty mindeth to have severely executed And if any person have had knowledge of the Authors Writers Printers or Dispersers thereof which shall within one Month after the publication hereof discover the same to