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land_n	chattel_n	good_n	tenement_n	2,741	5	10.4479	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47994	A letter from a gentleman in the city to a clergy-man in the country	Gentleman in the city.	1688 (1688)	Wing L1387; ESTC R9507	23,794	42

and Causes whatever and creates an Oath to be tendered her Subjects for confirmation of that Power In the fifth of her Reign grown warmer in that Supremacy she imposes the Oath upon all her Ministers and Officers of the Government even to Lawyers Atturneys c. and particularly to be taken by ever Member of Parliament And the second Refusal of taking it after a first tender of it three Months before is made High Treason In the 13th of Her Reign All persons taking upon them by Colour of any Bull Writing or Authority whatever to absolve or reconcile any persons or grant or promise to any person or persons within Her Majesties Dominions any such Absolution or Reconciliation by any Speech Preaching Teaching Writing or any other open deed and if any person or persons shall willingly take or receive such Absolution or Reconciliation shall suffer pains of Death And also lose and forefeit all their Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels as in Cases of High Treason A very soure sort of Grape to set their Childrens Teeth an Edge with In the 23d of Elizabeth This Act is explain'd and confirmed and in fine the Person reconciling or reconciled to the Church of Rome Priest or Lay-man are Equally declared Traytors and so onwards till the very taking of Orders from Rome is High Treason and doomed to suffer as such Ay God knows a very just sentence if the Indictment be but true But I desire to know by what Legerdemain is this Reconciliation made High Treason Is either the Life or Dignity of the King or the Government struck at by my being a Member of This or That Communion by my believing This or That the Way to Heaven Can Faith in God be Treason against Man For that 's the Result of the point Can a Christians best Endeavour to save his own or his Brothers Soul be a Machination to destroy his Prince or his Country or can my praying or not praying to a Saint my adoring or not adoring the Eucharist render me a true or not true Leige-man If Errours in Faith can amount to High Treason and the Government is in Conscience obliged to treat 'em as such Lord have mercy upon us how came the Jews to live with that Impunity in the Common-wealth that instead of misbelieving in points of Doctrine believe not so much as in the Gospel or Christ himself No no the Sophistry of the matter lyes not there 't is not the Doctrine of a Romanist as to Godwards makes him a Traytor but his belief of the Popes being Head of the Church in Derogation to the Ecclesiastick Supremacy inherent to and Lodg'd in the Crown and so religiously asserted and maintained by the Protestant Laws of the Kingdom Hinc Illae Lacrymae There lyes the Apostacy the hideous yawning Gulph that swallows all Faith Duty Honour Loyalty and consequently calls for Axes Halters Gibbets and what not Is this the Treason then 't is well we have fixt it there tho' upon true Inspection the Impeachment will be found full as feeble here as before For this is but meer matter of Faith still all this while nor carries in it the least shadow of a Breach of the Subjects Duty to the Soveraign For Instance when this Law was made suppose a poor Roman Catholick of those Days by an Invincible power of perswasion rooted and grounded in him by an Article of Faith how rightfully is not the matter received from Age to Age and Generation to Generation in favour of the Pope cou'd not possibly believe her then She Majesty by her Accession to the Crown to be instantly the Spiritual Head of the Church in all matters and Causes whatever that otherwise before was utterly incapable even of so much as a Subdeaconship in a Country Parish and if St. Paul may be believed not so much as qualified for speaking in a Religious Assembly yet nevertheless this Roman Catholick lived under her Government with all the Allegiance and Fealty in all Respects of Obedience and believed himself in conscience so obliged to do as much as any other of her more believing Protestant Subjects would it not be a little severe to adjudge him a Traytor And that the Romish Opinion that the Spiritual Supremacy lyes not in the Temporal Prince is meer matter of Faith is demonstrable from the very Soveraign Power it self when so many successive Kings never believed they had that Supremacy themselves For Prerogative is of its nature so jealous that tho' never so considerable a Jewel in a Crown had they had Faith to have challenged it theirs they would have had wit enough to have worne it too What if our Protestant Kings and their Parliments for them believe that Supremacy wholy lodged in the Crown must their Roman Catholick Subjects be Traytors because they cannot be of their Belief If the Princes Belief must be the standart of the peoples Loyalty by the same Equity the Catholick Kings might have made it High-Treason in their Reign to assert that Supremacy in the Crown Then as the Protestant Kings do to deny it there now and consequently the Protestants then if such there had been might by Equal Justice have been Traytors too If Crown'd Heads must necessarily be believed the Spiritual Heads of the Churches under their Obedience I wonder what strange stretch of Faith those Thousands of Christians must have that are born and bred Subjects to the Mahometan Grand Signior But that the Members of the Church of Rome may not look altogether so black for this unhappy Part of their Belief and that their asserting of that Spiritual Supremacy in their Pope does not any ways threaten either the Crown or the publick peace That wise and prudent Monarch King James the First shall be their Compurgator For as many Laws as that Prince made for the Defence of the Establisht Church of England and as great Industry as he used for the extirpation of the Romish Religion he was nevertheless pleased to allow the Pope tho' not Vniversal Head of the Church yet Patriarch of the West in which precinct of consequence must England be included And if so zealous a Protestant King thought it no Diminution to his own or his Churches Dignity to be of that Opinion and to grant the Pope that Prerogative what mortal High Treason against the Crown of England do the Members of the Popes own Church commit in throwing him in the East too a part of the World not much relating to us into the Bargain and so making him Vniversal Patriarch Jacob. Contr. Perron But some People will tell you 'T is almost an Impossibility to fancy any such things as Principles of Loyalty in a Romish Subject to a Protestant King. I shall not endeavour to confute this uncharitable Censure by the Vniversal Heroick Examples of that Parties Loyalty in the Battels of Charles the First so truly may I call it Vniversal that upon Petitions made to Cromwell for his Clemency to the Roman Catholicks he