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A33074 The Church of England truly represented according to Dr. Heylins history of the Reformation : in justification of Her Royal Highness the late Dutchess [sic] of Yorks paper. York, Anne Hyde, Duchess of, 1637-1671. 1686 (1686) Wing C4192; ESTC R23708 9,803 22

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THE Church OF England TRULY Represented According to Dr. Heylins History of the Reformation In Justification Of her Royal Highness the Late Dutchess of YORKS Paper Induantur qui detrahunt mihi pudore operiantur sicut diploide confusione sua Psal. 108. v. 28. LONDON Printed for the Author and Sold by Matthew Turner near Turn-stile in Holbourn 1686. THE Church Of England TRULY Represented c. THe Ignis Fatuus of Reformation struck by Collision out of the lustful and violent desires of King Henry the Eighth and the opposition made to them by the Pope The Riches of Abbeys and Monasteries still administring new matter unto it all the reign of that unhappy Prince grew to the Prodigy of a Comet in the immature years of his Son King Edward the Sixth by many Acts of Spoil and Rapine even to a high degree of Sacriledge on Chanteries Bishopricks Hospitals and Churches and wandering as in Exile all the time of Queen Mary about Zurick Basil Geneva but chiefly about Frankfort is thus again usher'd into the Land by that great Luminary of his Church Dr. Heylin to be refin'd of the filth it had drawn unto it from the Lakes in the Alpes and to be new moulded and formed into a Church by Queen Elizabeth to make good here Legitimation She says he knew full well that her Legitimation and the Popes Supremacy could not stand together and that she could not possibly maintain the one without a discarding of the other And what follows we more feelingly know than Dr. Heylin viz. That the Answer of the Pope according to his accustomed vigour That the Kingdom of England was held in Fee of the Apostolick See that she could not succeed being Illegitimate that he could not contradict the Declarations of Clement the Seventh and Paul the Third That it was a great boldness to assume the Name and Government of it without him was not only the foundation of the Church of England but also of all the Distractions and Miseries this poor Land has suffer'd from that day to this And all this upon a frivolous account of a pretended Donation of this Kingdom to the Pope by King Iohn the usurper which had been equally frivolous had he been never so lawfull a King But what a Bottom is this to build a Church upon And to forsake the Communion of a Church professed so many hundreds of years and established by so many Laws in the Nation because forsooth the Queens Legitimation and the Pope's Supremacy could not stand together We read that the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against the Church of Christ But had the Pope and the Queen known how to have adjusted their differences this Ignis Fatuus had been extinguisht in the Lake of Geneva and the Church of England had never been seen nor heard of in the world And will any man in his wits repose his hopes of salvation in a Church that came from so bare an accident so meer a chance as this midwived into the world by a Maiden Queen to make good her Legitimation Moreover we read that Christ will be with his Church to the end of the world But I pray when did he begin to be with this Church was it when the Queen had made good her Legitimation She has not done it yet But as Dr. Heylin well observes Bacon was not to be told of an old Law-maxime That the Crown takes away all defects Which it seems in the language of the Law was a Tantamount to a Legitimation and on this Tantamount was first erected the Crown and on that the Church as tho' the Law-makers ever meant that that odd scrap of Law should be extended to Legitimate whom the Law had illigitimated which if so might as well have legitimated the Rebellion of Oliver Cromwel had he clapt the Crown on his head and made him a lawful King tho he had been a Bastard into the bargain And now I think here is enough said of the fundamental and final Cause of the Church of England viz. The Pope's accustomed Rigour and the Queens legitimation I will now proceed to consider the Embryo of this Church in the rest of her Causes according to Dr. Heylin and then I hope I shall have truly Represented her according to her best and most beloved Historian I find no greater Enemies to Reformations than Reformers each Reformer like the Ape in the story thinking his own Brat the fairest would have no Reformation stand good but his own and therefore reviles and flouts at the rest as whimseys and phancys as indeed they are no better nor his own neither Who ever saw more bitter scolding than between the Lutherans the Zuinglians and the Calvinists the worst of men cannot be represented greater Villains than they represent each other and if a man considers them rightly he will find no other truth but This in all their Volums and yet some of them are very voluminous too In like manner does the Presbyterian revile and flout at the Church of England in his Cobler of Gloucester and serves Her up to his Readers in whole Cart loads of debauched Ministers and prophane Bishops But indeed the Church of England reviles and ridicules the Presbyterian with much more wit and far greater civility in her Hudibras But with too much Rigour too For she will not allow Sow-Gelders when they wind their horns to geld a Cat to cry Reform Nor an Oyster-wench to shut up shop and trudge about to cry no Bishop as tho' Sow-Gelders might not as well cry Reform the Church of England as a pack of Laymen in Parliament cry Reform the Church of Rome or as tho' an Oyster-Wench might not as well cry No Bishop as Queen Elizabeth cry No Pope How can it enter into the head of an Episcopal man that a Church of so long standing as the R. Catholick Church had been of continuance in England backt by so many Old Laws could on a suddain be lay'd aside with all her Doctrins and a new one foisted into her place with new ones without either Patriark of the West Primates of the Land or Bishops at all to it This is the case of the Church England and Dr. Heylin makes it out as clear as ever the sun shin'd at noon day He tells you that in the beginning of that Parliament 1. Eliz. Which Parliament made and establisht the Church that the Oath of Supremacy was tendered to the Bishops upon the refusal whereof they were cast out of PARLIAMENT all but Bishop Kitching who took the Oath but never was PROTESTANT notwithstanding Then it is evident that the old Bishops were not in Parliament at the devising and making of this Church He begins the 2 d. year of Queen Elizabeth with the consecrating of the new Bishops Parker and the rest then they were not in Parliament neither at the devising and making of this Church for the Church was made and establisht in the first year of Q.