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england_n	henry_n	king_n	pope_n	16,586	5	6.9376	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26356	The care of the peace of the church, the duty of every Christian in a discourse upon Psalm 122, 6, wherein the main pleas, for separation are examined and the true causes thereof shewed ... / by Tho. Adderley ... ; to which is annexed a letter, briefly shewing the great danger and sinfulness of popery, written to a young gentleman (a Roman Catholick) in Warwick-shire.	Adderley, Thomas, b. 1648 or 9.	1679 (1679)	Wing A509; ESTC R20224	39,054	53

Religion be true and good which will not suffer you to be true and loyal to your King and to yield obedience in all lawful things to the higher Powers under whom God hath subjected us Can that Religion be true which will not suffer you to swear Allegiance to your Prince or if you do will afterwards dispense with you for the breach of such an Oath when the word of God itself which is more to be hearken'd to surely than the Pope hath commanded us to keep the Kings Commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God Can that Religion be warrantable which would deprive Princes of their Power in the external Government of the Church when the word of God hath all along allowed and approv'd it as is plain throughout the whole Bible The Popes supremacy which I find you highly favor is an unjust usurpation and there is not the least intimation in the Scriptures for it unless you will admit of a Pasce oves feed my sheep or duo lumina fecit Deus God made two great lights the Sun to rule the day the Moon and the Starrs to govern the night as sufficient proofs of it And surely these texts will as little prove the Popes supremacy as that text Abraham begat Isaac would prove the unlawfulness of Non-residency But did I say that the Popes supremacy is an usurpation Why surely so it is and especially here in England where I could never yet understand any good title he had to it Whenever he had it it was got either by fraud or force and therefore he might very well expect to lose it when the right heir should claim his own The Pope that strong man armed kept it by meer force and strength for a while but at length came Henry the Eighth who being a Prince of courage and stronger than the Pope threw him out and the Kings of England his Successors have all reason to see to the keeping possession of that that is one of the most precious Jewels of the Crown To be brief Sir I would earnestly importune you to consult the Oaths of Allegiance and supremacy which will it 's presum'd e're long be tender'd to you And I verily believe that you can find nothing at all in either of them but what may very safely be taken by all good Christians And when you have taken them let me as earnestly importune you to keep them for however some may please themselves with the Popes dispensation and think that that will justifie and excuse them in the breach of those or either of those Oaths yet God himself hath told us that he will not hold them guiltless i.e. he will severely punish and revenge himself upon those who take his name in vain I have but one thing more to say which just now comes into my mind and that will relate to an expression which in my own hearing came lately from you You was saying not long since that if you should change your Religion yet you would hardly do it at this time because as you then said the world would think that you did it more out of fear then conscience The very expression my thought did portend some good and put me in some little hopes of a change But I beseech you Sir if you have any convictions wrought in you of the goodness of the purity and peaceableness of the Protestant Religion and of the quite contrary qualities of the Romish take heed of smothering stifeling such convictions though but for an hour for that may tend to the utter ruin of you both here and hereafter Let no man refuse to hear when God Almighty calls Never be afraid or asham'd to own and embrace that Religion which if you live but up to the Principles of it will render you a true Servant to God a loyal subject to your King and a faithful friend to your friend though his perswasion in Religion be never so differing And let me tell you this Sir that I could never yet perswade my self that a Roman Catholick quatenus Roman Catholick could ever be reckon'd as a good Christian a Loyal Subject or a true Friend And now Sir that you may be no longer a stranger to the Pious Devotions of that Church in whose Communion I as well as many others should be very glad and joyful to see you I have sent you herewith the Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies according to the use of the Church of England desiring you seriously to peruse it and to accept of it as a gift and present from your Friend In which Book you will find the most Pious Pethy and well-composed Prayers which are made unto God who is the only hearer of Prayers and not to the Saints who are altogether ignorant of us which are made in the Name of Jesus Christ there being no other Name given unto Men whereby they can be Saved which in short are such Prayers that any one that knows but the English Tongue may readily understand and thereby know what it is he begs of God and that he doth not ask for a Stone when he intends Bread or for a Serpent when he intends a Fish which the ignorant People of the Church of Rome who say their Prayers in an unknown Tongue cannot be assured of Thus Sir I have answered your desire in giving you some short Memento's of the unsoundness of the Romish Religion And if you require farther proof of it I will then refer you to the Writings of some of our Famous and Learned Divines of the Church of England and to which there was never any Reply yet made that could deserve the name of an Answer And really Sir it is no little evidence of the weakness of their cause when they have no other Arguments to defend it with than Daggers and Pistols You see Sir that I have answered your request in bestowing a Sheet of Paper upon you with what intent and design you put me upon it you know best But if it was no worse then with what I Writ it I may then be confident of a favorable reception and candid interpretation of these few Lines from him who is Sir Your unfeigned Friend and Servant c. Decemb. 2. 1678.