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faith_n	believe_v	church_n	infallibility_n	5,773	5	11.7611	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51537	A most choice historical compendium fitted for the use of all ingenious and inquisitive persons who are curious to know what wonderfull events have come to pass for almost 1000 years, under the figure 8, from 818 to 1688 inclusive : wherein is briefly comprised, the life and death, rise and fall of kings, queens, noblemen, clergymen, warriors and several famous poets : with many other curious remarks and observations, not here mention'd / written in a plain method, by A.M., Gent.	A. M., Gent.	1692 (1692)	Wing M3; ESTC R9727	48,168	167

and Hill were all apprehended examined and committed to Newgate and at their Tryal upon Prance's Oath and Evidence against them they were found guilty of the murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and upon Feb. 8. 1678. were executed all living and dying Papists Now observe in all this his own Sword that was thrust through his Body was never mentioned as the cause of his death for if that Sword had been made a party by the Owner it would have equalized the Romances of St. Dennis and St. Winifrid Now remember also that Kelly and Fitzgerald the two Priests were at the murder and they would have run Sir Edm. through with their own Sword in Somerset-House but the other Homicides would not suffer them saying the Blood would be a means to discover them And the abovesaid Mr. Fitzgerald soon after the murder said in the hearing of Mrs. James then living in Katherine-Stree That the PAPISTS had murdered Sir Edmondbury Godfrey and that it would be their destruction And when Mr. Edward Coleman heard of the same Murder he struck his hand on his Breast with these words Then we are undone And now to bring this relation to a period I shall only add That Prance always told me for many years That what he had so oft declared to me of that murder was true and that he would justifie it to the last drop of his blood And here we must leave him being now turned Protestant till 88 where you may find him a Papist again But to proceed the House desired the King to give Bedloe the 500 l. reward for his discovery which Mr. Wrenn had not long before put into his head Capt. Bedloe gets the Mony but contrary to agreement of dividing it betwixt them the Capt. would not give one crum of comfort to the Wrenn There were also in this year several Gentlemen and others imprisoned in the Country and some brought to London to see the Tower but being they neither suffered death nor were Fined we shall pass them and come to a year of more strangeness and wonder than this Anno. 1688. This year is ushered in with so much wonder that if it be set down here for a real History not one of a Thousand will believe it however it must be left to every one 's own choice Upon the great hopes of the Queen's conception the King orders some of the Bishops to make an Order of Thanksgiving in behalf of the King the Q. and the Royal Family upon occasion of the Queen's being with Child which was performed accordingly throughout England Then followed by the instigation of the Priests and Papists to the King a Proclamation was procured for the reading a Declaration for Liberty of Conscience in all Churches and Chapels in England This proved very unhappy to the King in disgusting his best Subjects the Church of England nay almost the generality of the Non-Cons did not approve of it The Romans did use their utmost endeavours to promote it knowing thereby their Religion would be introduced and extirpate all but their own the Quakers and Anabaptists did run with the stream and Will. Penn the Quakers chief Illuminator was a daily Sollicitor to the King and Father Peters his Brother Priest for Liberty of Conscience The King or at least the Priests being not satisfied brought the King to put forth a second Declaration to the same purpose All the Clergy except some few ignorant and Popishly affected stoutly refused to read the said Declaration The Bishops also had a Conference about it and not finding it consentaneous to their Consciences but on the contrary would open the door to let in all Heresies and Irreligion and nothing should have been settled in England but Slavery Popery and Poverty The Archbishop of Canterbury being Dr. William Sancroft Dr. Kenn Bishop of Bath and Wells Dr. Lloyd Bishop of St. Asaph Dr. White Bishop of Peterborough Dr. Lak● Bishop of Chichester Sir John Trelauny Bishop of Bristol Dr. Turner Bishop of Ely These seven Bishops on the 8th of June applied themselves to His Majesty by way of an humble Address to let him understand They could not safely and with a good Conscience suffer the Clergy in their several Dioceses to read the said Declaration The King enraged at this the said Bishops were all sent to the Tower and there remained Prisoners their Crime being a pretended scandalous Petition to the King To let him know they could not read the said Declaration c. And there they remained to the 15th day of June and then was called to the King 's Bench-Bar and upon their own recognizance upon 100 l. a piece was Bailed to appear 14 days after upon which day being the 29th of June a Jury being sworn the Indictment read and argued on both sides by the learned Counsel for several hours the Verdict was brought in Not Guilty to the great encouragement and comfort of good Christians and for levelling the pride and insolence of the haughty Papists and their adherents And now 19 days before this happy Verdict had delivered the Bishops from their Prisons I suppose you expect to hear of another delivery that is what became of the Queen's Concept Now I must beg of you this favour to remember that if the Concept was not believed the Birth will be as little credited however we had it by Tradition as Papists have most of their Religion whether Articles of Faith or matter and form of Worship and so are imposed upon easie Believers But if you will be so careful to go to find out the Pope's Infallibility the inerrability of the Roman Church the Supremacy of St. Peter's Successors pardons for sin at a cheap rate the exact time of blowing up the Fire of Purgatory praying to Saints long since departed but a moiety of the Sacrament to the lay People worshipping of Images cum multis aliis such-like improbable Follies after all your pains and enquiries be forced to take all upon trust and without any plain mathematical demonstration sit down with an implicit Faith and believe as the Church believes not contradicting their report for as there was a resolute party did believe and did also publish it abroad after the murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey committed by others he was his own selo de se by sheathing his own Sword in his own Body yet how far that was congruous to reason let the discreet man give sentence Now after this digression you may understand that there was upon the 10th of June Anno 1688. ● day long before appointed and very precisely too for that purpose a Man-child brought forth into the presence of many persons of great Quality but of the implicit Faith Madam Wicks the Mid-wife or Woman of Honour being a knowing Artist and well instructed in such affairs gave to every one of her own perswasion a full and satisfactory account of the whole matter from the very begining to the end That He was the true product of the forementioned