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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34970	Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Catholick church by Doctour Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted / by S.C. a Catholick ...	Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674.; Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.	1672 (1672)	Wing C6898; ESTC R1090	75,544	216

or Writing has declared the contrary to either of these or engaged his soule in the Covenant so great so horrible a Scandall as that certainly ought not only to be repented of but a publick revocation of it to be made And moreover my Lords the Bishops his Superiours deale but too mercifully in not requiring also a Recantation from him of what he has written destructive to the Ecclesiasticall Government of that Church in whose revenues they have now given him so great a share But I despair of being able to extort from the Doctour a free expression of his mind touching these two Points which involue a secret never to be discovered At least then he may with Civilitie be entreated to satisfy the world touching the sense of the two Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance which he has taken already as appears by the Preferments he enioys unles perhaps for the tendernes of his conscience he has been dispensed with taking them I doubt not but that in the Oath of Alleagiance he cheer-fully renounced all Authority in the Pope or any forrain Potentate to absolue Subiects from their Allegiance but will he doe the same with regard to any domestick Power Assembly or State at home This were worth the knowing 82. And next touching the Oath of Supremacy the Doctour during the late execrable Vsurpers time publishing in his Irenicum the Iudgement touching Church Government of the prime Patriarch of the English Reformation stiled by him that most worthy Prelat and glorious Martyr Archbishop Cranmer a Martyr indeed if an impenitent Traytor may be called a Martyr and his judgment declared in an answer to a Petition of the Clergy in the Convocation was in brief That Princes and Governours may make Bishops and Priests as well as Bishops may And that a Bishop or a Priest made by them needeth no Consecration by the Scripture Moreover the Doctour signifies that he had in his possession an Authentick Copy of the same Cranmers Answer in resolution of certain doubts propounded by the same Clergy touching Doctrinall Points as about the Masses institution nature receiving c. But this Secret the Doctour envyed his Readers Notwithstanding we may collect the sense of Cranmers Answer from the Subscription to both the Resolutions the Form whereof is this T. Cantuariens This is mine Opinion and Sentence at this present which I do not temerariously define but do remit the judgment thereof wholly to your Majesty So that it seems a finall judgment both touching Government and Doctrin is by the Prime Bishop referred to a Child of about nine years old a great glory surely to the English Clergy for the knowledge of which they are beholding to the Doctour as the Doctour was to Cranmer for confirming the substance of his Book touching Church Government very advantageous to my Lords the Bishops 83. Now this being premised and notice being taken that this Book attributing all this power to the Supreme Civill Governour was printed in Cromwells time he cannot surely refuse to declare whether he intended in taking lately the Oath of Supremacy to acknowledg as much in the King whose Title by Law is Supreme Head and Governour of the Church of England and whether by the Church of England is to be understood only the Prelaticall Church so as that all the Doctours other Protestant Churches are to be supposed exempt from his Iurisdiction For if they be not it is expected that the Doctour should declare that the King as Head of the Church may ordain Bishops and Priests for his own Church and Presbyters for the Presbyterians Ministers for the Independents Holders-forth for Anabaptists Declarers for Quakers and Tub-preachers for that sort of Fanaticks But this is not all For the Doctour if holding to his Book seems obliged to assert a power in the King to appoint also Articles of Belief a hundred ways varying and contradicting one another to fitt the fancies of each respective Congregation But how would the Doctour advise him about Fifth Monarchists Thus much at present upon this Subiect by occasion of the Doctours requiring an account from Catholicks touching their Fidelity which account none were less fitt to require then the Doctour Causa patet 84. But after all did it become a Doctour of such reputation though having a design to doe all the mischeif he could to Catholicks who never provoked him to call into his ayd two such Authours as the Answerer to the Apology for Catholicks and the Answerer to Philanax For touching the former he cannot but know that his barbarous Answer has mett wich a Reply already from an Honourable pen. And for the other where was the Doctours modesty when he stiled himr a worthy Authour for belying most horribly a party among Catholicks as if they had had an influence and had joyned with the Doctours friends in the most barbarous effects of Fanaticism here in the murther of a most excellent Prince Does he not know how oft and particularly how upon the complaint of the late Queen-Mother of most precious memory he has been summoned to make good that his forged calumny but all in vain Js that wretched Serpent to be stiled a worthy-Authour who if he had not been warmed and thawed by English preferments had never been able to hiss in his own countrey and much less to disgorge his poyson to the disturbance of our Island Js any credit to be given to him who would haue that to be believed in England which all France knows to be false viz. That his Father was a loyall subiect to his King that is that he was an Apostar from Huguenotterie where Confession of Faith obliges them to be Traytours and Rebels whensoever the Honour of God that is the Defence of their execrable Religion is concerned 85. If the Doctour had had the patience to delay a while the publishing his Book he might both haue cowntenanced and strengthned his cause very considerably by imploring the succours of another of the same French Huguenot brood of the loyall family of the Du Moulins One by Profession of late God Help us à Physician but heretofore as is said for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presented to Cromwell in which he celebrated his victories created by him a publick Reader of History in the Vniversity then he became a Controvertist and Teacher of Diuinity the Diuinity doubtles then in fashion and pernicious to lawfull Soverains Jt seems the poor Snake not th●iving by his Drugs for he finds very few of the English Holy Tribes weary of living long betakes himself to his former Trade of railing at Papists a Trade at all times but now especially which brings in as certain a Revenue as if he had sett up an Alehouse This doughty Controvertist to putt the world in mind of his first Trade of Surgery has giuen Catholick Religion as he alone thinks a deadly wound in cutting the very Iugulum causae Jf his Book had come abroad time enough the Doctour could