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A30398	A pastoral letter writ by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum, to the clergy of his diocess, concerning the oaths of allegiance and supremacy to K. William and Q. Mary	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5842; ESTC R7837	13,408	35

And the Subjects are not only warranted but required to enter into Associations and Oaths for that Effect This is an Evidence that by the Ancient Constitution of England there was no such irresistible Authority in our Kings as some have been inclin'd to imagine But after all if there be any who are so possest with their preconceited Opinions that they either cannot lay them down or will not confess that they have been mistaken in their Notions of Politicks these ought to be very sure that they are in the Right before they will adventure as far as in them lies to undermine and shake the present Constitution To conclude I hope you will examine this whole Matter with the Care and Attention that it deserves that you will weigh the Reasons of both Sides without partiality that you will Fast and Pray in order to the preparing your Minds for the finding out of the Truth and that you will hearken to all that can be said of both hands being neither byassed to the Affirmative by your present Interests nor inclined to the Negative as to the received Opinion neither affecting Singularity nor throwing your selves into the Croud but that you will seek to hear Reason and examine what is most agreeable to the Scriptures and be determined by it This is the daily and most earnest Prayer of Reverend and dear Brethren Your most Affectionate Brother and most Humble Servant GIL SARUM May the 15th Books Printed for John Starkey AN Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England from the first times to the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth with a Vindication of the Ancient way of Parliaments in England Collected from some Manuscript Notes of John Selden Esq by Nathaniel Bacon of Grays-Inn Esq in Folio Price bound 12 s. For Printing this Book John Starkey was Outlaw'd in the year 1682 which is now by him New Published The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and House of Commons Collected by Sir Simmonds D'Ewes of Suffolk Knight and Baronet Revised and Published by Paul Bowes of the Middle-Temple Esq in Folio price bound 20 s. A New Systeme of the Apocalypse or Plain and Methodical Illustrations of all the Visions in the Revelations of St. John Written by a French Minister in the year 1685 and finisht but two days before the Dragoons plunder'd him of all except this Treatise to which is added this Authors Defence of his Illustrations concerning the Non-Effusion of the Vial in answer to Mr. Jurieu faithfully Englished In 120. Price bound 2 s. 6 d. Books Lately Printed for Richard Chiswell DR BURNET'S History of the Reformation of the Church of England in 2 Volumes in Folio His Abridgment of the said History of the Reformation History of the Rights of Princes in disposing of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Church Lands 12o. Life of Dr. William Bedell Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland to which are Annexed the Letters betwixt Him and Wadsworth about Religion His Two Letters Written upon the Discovery of the Popish Plot together with a Collection of several other Tracts and Discourses Written by him betwixt the years 1678. to 1685. To which is added a Letter written to Dr. Burnet giving an Account of Cardinal Pools Secret Powers The History of the Powder Treason with a Vindication of the Proceedings thereupon An Impartial Consideration of the Five Jesuites dying Speeches who were Executed for the Popish Plot 1679. His Account of the Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester A Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England In which is demonstrated that all the Essentials of Ordination according to the Practice of the Primitive and Greek Churches are still retained in the Church Reflexions on the Relation of the English Reformation lately printed at Oxford In two Parts 410. Animadversions on the Reflections upon Dr. BURNET's Travels 80. Reflexions on a Paper intitled his Majesties Reasons for withdrawing himself from Rochester An Enquiry into the present State of Affairs and in particular whethewe owe Allegiance to the King in these Circumstances And wher there we are bound to Treat with Him and call Him back or no A Sermon Preached in St. James's Chappel before the Prince of Orange 23d Decemb. 1688. A Sermon Preached before the House of Commons 31 January 1688. being the Thanksgiving day for the deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power His Eighteen Paper relating to the Affairs of Church and State during the Reign of King James the Second Seventeen whereof were written in Holland and first Printed there the other at Exeter soon after the Prince of Orange's Landing in England A Letter to Mr. Thevenot Containing a Censure of Mr. Grand's History of King Henry the Eighth's Divorce To which is added a Censure of Mr. Meaux●s ●s History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches Together with some further Reflections on Mr Le Grand A Sermon Preached at the Coronation of William III. and Mary II. King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland At Westminster April 11th 1689. Dr. PATRICKS Parable of the Pilgrim The Sixth Edition corrected A Private Prayer to be used in difficult Times 80. Exposition of the Ten Commandments 80. His Sermon before the Prince of Orange 20. January 1688. His Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall March 1. 1688. The Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be that Church and the Pillar of that Truth mentioned by St. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy Chap. ● v.15 His Sermon preached on St. Peters day published with Enlargements His Sermon preâched at St. Pauls Covent Garden on the first Sunday in Lent being a Second part of a Sermon preached before the Prince of Orange newly published Preparation for Death being a Letter sent to a Young Gentlewoman in France in a distemper of which she died By WILLIAM WAKE M. A. Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grays-Inn His Two Discourses of Purgatory and prayers for the Dead 40. His Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late BISHOP of CONDOM in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church His Defence of the Exposition of the Doct. of the Church of England against the Exceptions of Mr. de Meaux late B of Condom and his Vindicator A Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the new Exceptions of Monsieur de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator The FIRST PART in which the Account that has been given of the Bishop of Meaux's Exposition is fully Vindicated the Distinction of Old and New Popery Historically asserted and the Doctrine of the Church of Rome in point of Image Worship more particularly considered Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doct. of the Church of England against Mr. de Meaux and his Vindication the SECOND PART

THE BISHOP of SARVM's PASTORAL LETTER LICENSED May 16. 1689. A PASTORAL LETTER WRIT BY The Right Reverend Father in God GILBERT Lord Bishop of SARVM TO THE CLERGY of his DIOCESS CONCERNING The Paths of Allegiance and Supremacy TO K. William and Q. Mary LONDON Printed for J. Starkey and Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIX A PASTORAL LETTER Writ by The Right Reverend Father in God GILBERT Lord Bishop of SARVM To the CLERGY of his Diocess c. SINCE I cannot yet come to do the Duties of my Function among you I think my self obliged to supply my absence by watching over you as effectually as I can at this distance And since some have raised so many Doubts and Difficulties concerning the Allegiance which is due to the King and Queen that the minds of the people may be distracted by them especially if they should observe that those of the Clergy who have more occasion to enquire into such matters than other people and whose Examples ought to have great authority should be so far possessed with these Scruples that they should rather choose to desert their Stations than swear the Oaths required by Law I have thought it incumbent on me to lay this before you in the best Light in which I could put it in order to the satisfying of all those Objections which may arise upon this Occasion 1. The importance of this Matter is too visible to need any reflections upon it to make it more sensible it does not only concern you in your own particular tho that is a consideration in which the present Interest that is of its side may tempt a Good man to be a little jealous of it Yet on the other hand men that are in a station in which they may do service to God and the Church and from which they cannot withdraw without doing a considerable prejudice to the publick Peace and without shaking as far as in them lies the present Settlement of the Nation ought to consider well the Grounds upon which they go before they venture on the setting themselves against a Work which in the whole progress of it has had many signal Characters of a favourable Providence conducting it and that gives us the fairest beginnings of the most desirable things that we can hope or wish for on Earth It gives us all the security that humanely speaking we can look for both for the Protestant Religion and for Civil Liberty It is our present fence from the three things in the World which if they were asunder ought to give us the greatest terror but being now all joined together if they do not both unite and awaken us against so dreadful an appearance it looks like a Curse from God upon us that is the certain forerunner of our Ruine and these are Popish Tyranny An Irish Conquest and Massacre and French Barbarity and Cruelty If our Saviour has denounced a terrible Woe against those who lay a stumbling Block before one of his Little Ones under how much greater damnation do they fall who lay such a stumbling Block as the refusing the Oaths will be before a whole Nation and a Nation in whose Strength and Union the security both of Religion and Liberty consists A man that adventures on so dangerous a thing had need be very sure that he is in all this matter in the right otherwise he runs a risque of fighting against God if he should happen to be in the wrong 2. But all this may look like a pathetical aggravating of the Matter unless it should appear to be well supported I go therefore in the next place to set before you those Reasons that seem convincing to me even though there were no more to be said for the present Settlement but that we have a Throne filled and a King and Queen in Possession The bringing the state of the Question so low may seem at first view not to be of so much advantage to Their Majesties Title but since I intend to carry the matter farther before I leave it I hope it may be no incongruous Method to begin at that which will take in the greatest numbers since there is no Dispute in this that they are actually in Possession of the Throne that they protect us and that we by living under their Protection and enjoying the benefit of it are therefore bound to make some Returns to them for it 3. A Man may Lawfully promise to do every thing which he may Lawfully do so that if it is Lawful to obey the King it is also Lawful to promise to do it And therefore since it does not appear that any Persons do doubt of the Lawfulness of obeying it cannot with any colour of Reason be said to be Unlawful to promise it and if it is Lawful to promise it it is also Lawful to swear it for an Oath being only the Sacred Confirmation of a Promise we may Lawfully swear every thing that we may Lawfully promise And as it appears that there lies no just Objection to the swearing Obedience so there arises none from the Word Allegiance for that being in its Original Signification nothing but the Service that a Vassal owed to the Chief Lord of the Fee. If the King is owned in Fact to be our King then he is the Lord of the Fee and by consequence Allegiance is due to him Allegiance being also now in our present aeceptation An Obedience according to Law that is to say not a Blind nor Absolute Obedience but such an Obedience as is defined and limitted by the Law then the Scruple that arises out of the Word Allegiance vanishes 4. This is either true or all these who live upon a Continent and that are subject to the Conquests and Invasions of their Neighbours must be miserable For tho our Happy Scituation has exempted us for a whole Age from falling under any such Difficulties yet this is a Case that falls often out in all different States which are on the same Continent for if Subjects owe their natural Prince such an Obstinate Allegiance that neither Desertion nor Conquest can dissolve it then in what a miserable Condition must they be when they fall under the Power of their Enemy that never thinks himself secure of them but treats them still as Enemies till they swear Allegiance to him Now all the true Maxims of Government being such that they must tend to the Preservation and not to the Ruin of Mankind it is certain that all those are false which tend to the inevitable Destruction of Cities and Societies and therefore this of an indiffeasable Allegiance must be reckoned among these since the fatal Consequences that must attend upon it are evident and this is the Opinion in which all who have considered this matter either as Lawyers or Casuists do agree 5. If we consider the whole History of the Old Testament in which there were much plainer Rules with relation to then Policy given