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A46813	Beaufrons, or, A new-discovery of treason under the fair-face and mask of religion, and of liberty and conscience : in an answer to the Protestant reconciler ... / by one of His Majestie's chaplains.	Jenner, David, d. 1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing J657; ESTC R32980	46,367	116

decayed to Reform the Church when corrupted and to Protect the same when Reformed This is the Supremacy which the German Princes being the first Reformers Assumed to themselves exercising their own Authority in Ordering and Setling Church-Matters within their own Dominions And because they all Protested against the Pope's Supremacy and Defended that of their own Therefore were they called Protestants In like manner King Henry the Eighth was the first Protestant Prince in England for no other Reason But because he was the first King of England since the Reformation who strenuously vindicated his Own Regal Supremacy And Protested against the Pope's Usurpation and Tyranny over Kings and their Subjects For which the Pope of Rome Excommunicated King Henry the Eighth and Branded him with the Name of Heretick and Protestant And notwithstanding King Henry's being a perfect and Rigid Papist in all points of Doctrine according to the Church of Rome yet because he Assumed his Own Supremacy and Abjured that of the Pope's he is Therefore styled and that very truely A Protestant And our Statute-Laws call all them who deny the King's Supremacy Recusants whether they be Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists or Quakers The Law Names all Recusants and indeed such They are and Not Protestants For as in the Church of Rome no man is counted a Papist but onely he who declares for the Pope's Supremacy So in the Church of England no man is nor ought to be reckoned a Protestant but onely he who in Thought Word and Deed is for the King's Supremacy as above stated These things being Premised We are of Opinion That the Reconciler has Mistaken his own Title for in equity and honesty he should have Entitled Himself and his Book The Recusant and not the Protestant Reconciler For we know no Protestants in England that need any Reconciliation unless it be the Beaufronts alias Fair-faced Protestants Who have God and the King in their Mouths but the Devil in their Hearts Who Speak their Prince fair to his face but will Wound his Reputation and cut his Throat behind his Back Who will take and swallow all Oaths particularly those of Supremacy and Allegiance And yet will enter into a Scotch-Covenant or into a Shaftsburian-ASSOCIATION and Plot Treason and Rebellion against their King and his Government Who will cry-up the Church of England and yet cry-down the Bishops Who will on a Sunday-Morning go to Divine-Service in the Parish-Church and receive the Sacrament Kneeling and yet in the Afternoon Contrary to their Oath of Allegiance will go to a Seditious Conventicle These are the Tares among the Wheat the very Pests of the Nation And indeed They want a Reconciliation that is Of their ungodly Principles and Practices to Piety Of their Knavery to Honesty Of their Perjury and Hypocrisie to Truth Of their Faction to Loyalty Except these dissembling Beaufronts we know no Protestants that need any Reconciliation for in England there are no Protestants except the Beaufronts but onely the true-hearted and Loyal Episcopal men who in Heart and Conscience Own and Protest for according to our Churches Articles 34 36 37. 1. The King's Supremacy 2. The Churches Authority in Ordering Rites and Ceremonies 3. The Episcopal Government as now established Asserting the Distinct Orders of Bishops Priests and Deacons 4. Who give due Obedience to the Churches Orders and Constitutions These are the onely Protestants in England As for all others the Laws of the Realm Notifie them by the Name of Recusants So then it is a most Certain Truth though a Paradox to the Vulgar That although there be Myriads of Men in England who pass for Protestants and call themselves Protestants yet in truth and reality they are Recusants They all Combining and Siding with the Papists against the King's Supremacy do by so doing declare themselves to be No Protestants And the onely way to Reconcile these Recusants unto our Church is in the first place to persuade them to become Protestants that is to say to persuade them to Own and Protest for the King's Supremacy in Ecclesiastick Matters and to become Obedient to his Laws Civil and Ecclesiastick for till this be done as was said before They are No Protestants And of this Nature and Character are all the Dissenters in England to wit Recusants and not Protestants For they all deny the King's Supremacy which is the Essence and Foundation of Protestantism in Opposition to Popery And whoever pleads for them to be Reconciled to the Church of England without an open Recantation of their Popish Principles as does the Reconciler is guilty of a Praemunire and smells more of a Papist than of a Protestant This then being the proper Notion of a Protestant We once more petition the Reconciler That he would be pleased to inform us who are the Protestants for whom he so earnestly pleads and unto whom he so passionately craves a Condescension may be granted by the King and the Governours If he says They be the Dissenting-Brethren as he has it in his Title Page then he grosly mistakes himself For the Dissenters are No Protestants Because they all deny The King's Supremacy Which is the onely Badge and Characteristical Note of a Protestant Now that All the Dissenters do so is easily proved by their own Avowed and Declared Principles and Practices The Dissenters in England although they be very numerous yet they may be reduced unto four Ranks and Sects which will comprehend them all at least all those which are of any Bulk and Note among us Such as the Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Quakers All which Sects we shall in order prove to be No Protestants CHAP. II. The Presbyterians No Protestants THe Presbyterians are no Protestants in as much as They Deny The King's Supremacy And in Opposition thereunto They Set up their own Ecclesiastick Consistory above the King and his Power For by their Consistorian Power They pretend they may and actually they have censured and deposed their own Natural Prince raised War by Oath and Covenant against Him when he would not yield himself a slave to their Demands and Consistorian Tyranny This is too well known in Scotland and England and needs no farther proof And although they do declare with the French Presbyterians French Disci Eccles c. 5. of the Consistory That a Magistrate may be called and employed in the charge of an Elder in the Consistory yet it is with such a Restraint and Limitation as that the Execution of one of the Functions must not hinder the other and bring no prejudice to the Church that is to their Consistorian Power which is to over-rule and controll the Magistrate in matters Ecclesiastick It is to be Noted That the first Presbyterian Consistory erected in Opposition to Monarchy and Episcopacy that ever we heard of was first in Geneva Setled by Calvin and Beza And the First Presbyterian Confistory Setled in Scotland was by John Knox who came from Geneva and brought from thence the Platform

of the Beaufront Protestants Now if this be a truth as verily it is then pray Sir seeing as you pretend that you wrote your Book onely to ease your own Conscience and that poor Dissenters may not be damned by being excluded our Church why then Sir will you damn the Conscientious Papists by excluding them for you do in your Book exclude all the Papists as the Onely Common Enemy to our Church and State As if the Dissenters were no Enemies to either as if they dear innocent Souls had no Gall or Bitterness no Malice or Ill-will against the King and his Government Sir you are become an eloquent Tertullus a great Apologizer for not onely some but even all the Dissenters When in Page 108 and Page 114 of your Book you declare to the whole world in these very words Their Innocency and your own good opinion of them Protestant Reconciler p. 113 114. saying I Sincerely profess I know not any pure Malice Obstinacy and Wilfulness which can certainly be applied unto the Case of the Dissenters Surely Sir you will for once eat your words and Confess That you know some yet Surviving who entred into a Malitious Scotch-Covenant against the late King and obstinately raised a Bloudy-War against Him and his present Majesty and you know farther That They have not as yet Openly declared their Repentance and sorrow for so doing Ergo You know some that still continue Obstinate and Malitious as the Learned Dr. Womack and Faulkland have informed you Surely Sir you knew or at least have heard of Oliver Cromwell and his Malitious Army that Murthered King Charles the First and you know many of that Army do yet survive without declaring the least Abhorrency of that Horrid Action Ergo Did you never know nor hear of Tho. Venner and his Company who in 1660 shot and fired at the King 's peaceable Subjects in London Streets and pleaded They did it out of a Tender Conscience and for King Jesus his sake And is there not one Fifth Monarchy Man of all your Acquaintance Did you never hear of a late Malitious Association carryed on by the Beaufronts and the Dissenters against the King and the Church Government The which if you will believe the King 's late Declaration would in all likelyhood had it took effect have proved more fatal and destructive to the King and the Church of England as now established than ever the Scotch Covenant And I pray Sir don't you know one of these Associatours Did you never know Stephen Colledge that was hang'd at Oxford I wonder in what County you live For in all Counties the Associatours exceedingly abound both Beaufronts and Dissenters And 't is observed that the Beaufronts are of this humour That they will on Sunday Morning go to their Parish-Church and in the Afternoon to a Conventicle in the Afternoons they will never come to Divine Service nor to Catechising nor to Exposition on the Church Catechism though never so profitable and large yet if there be no Sermon in the Pulpit they will turn their back upon Divine Service and either go to another Church where there is no Catechising but a Sermon or to a Conventicle or else they will stay at home and Scurrilously Rail at the King and Bishops and be sure at their own Parson and complain that he is lazy and idle although he be never so laborious and painfull in his Exposition on the Church Catechism and in instructing old and young according to the Church Canons in the Desk Yet because he does not in the Afternoon ascend the Pulpit and beat the Cushion he cannot escape the Virulency of their Tongues And Mr. Reconciler in one County a Canonical Parson being sent for to Preach before his Diocesan he was thereby prevented from Reading Divine Service the next day which fell out to be an Holy-day at his own Parish Church Hereupon it happened that the Dissenters and Beaufronts in the said Parish who never came to Divine Service on Holy-days went from House to House in the said Town railing on the said Parson tauntingly saying Look ye Neighbours ye see what care the Parson has of his Parishioners Souls He is gone out of Town and has left no Body to Reade Prayers to morrow it is very true for we have been with the Clark to know the truth And if we should die before Sunday we may all be Damned for all the Parson's care of us A Vengeance on him and on all his Tribe They mind onely the Fleece and not the Flock c. And yet you must know that when the said Parson is at home he never misses if he be well the Reading of Divine Service on Holy days at his Parish Church no although he has had no other Auditours but the Walls and those few of his own Family And when the said Parson has as he often has called upon the aforesaid Dissenters and Beaufronts to frequent the Divine Service on the Holy-days They have answered him to his very face and complained That Holy days were first of the Pope's Superstitious Appointment And that they doe more hurt than good for they make Servants idle and bad Husbands And farther said they What need we goe to Church on the Week-days Sunday is enough God required but One Day in Seven We can Pray at home as well as at the Church Come Sir we must tell you that you have a Pope in your Heart and that makes you so Superstitious as to Observe Days of Man's Inventions And now pray Mr. Reconciler be ingenuous and tell the truth What think you of this true Story for it is no Romance Do you not think these men were and all men like them are Malitious Obstinate and Turbulent But because you profess you know not one of them pray Know you not one Associatour or Beaufront besides your Dear Self in all your Town and Country Know you none of the Men of Shaftsbury Or Are they and all your Acquaintance since Stephen Colledge his Execution transformed from Associatours into Abhorrers from Knaves into Honest Men If so it is very good News But if not then pray Sir What makes you plead so earnestly in their behalf as even to Damn the King and Government if they do not Humour you in Granting to the aforesaid Factious Beaufronts and Dissenters a speedy Condescention But to wave this Digression and to return to our former Querie Pray Sir tell us What Reason is there That the Dissenters should be indulged and the Papists prosecuted Or why should the Dissenters onely be saved by an Admission into our Church-Communion But the Papists though never so Religious be Damned by an Exclusion for according to your Doctrine If Exclusion will damn the one it must also damn the other But you will object and plead 1. That the Papists are Idolaters and therefore ought not to be indulged But I pray Does not Doctour Owen in totidem verbis say the like of us How that all the