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lord_n	bill_n	house_n	pass_v	12,480	5	7.4741	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48813	An answer to the Bishop of Oxford's reasons for abrogating the test impos'd on all members of Parliament anno 1678, Octob. 30 in these words, I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testifie, and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at, or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation of adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the Dais, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous / by a person of quality.	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1688 (1688)	Wing L2673; ESTC R977	35,814	60

holds it not onely for himself but for that whole Estate the whole being acknowledg'd in every Member And particularly sitting and voting in the Higher House of Parliament which is therefore with Honour to that Estate call'd the House of Lords is acknowledged to be the just Right of Peerage without any Infraction upon the Right it self 3. Even those Noble Lords who do refuse or do not actually submit to the taking the Test have yet their Right of Birth Blood or other Title preserv'd undisputed and inviolate as it is such a Right and on such a Claim and therefore whenever they please to accept it on that Condition there is no demur upon their Right But untill they so accept their Right is in a kind of Abeyance and Custody of Law for them and never dyes or is extinguisht 4. The Suspension in the mean time amounts no higher to the Defalcation of the Priviledge nor indeed so high than the Minority of such Noble Persons which cause 's a Suspension of that Priviledge of voting in Parliament till they are of Age which is not at their pleasure but requires the natural Course of Time to advance them to it whereas in this case they may in Construction of Law every day remove the Obstruction and enjoy their Right seeing the Claim is always allow'd and own'd and the Law takes no notice of the Reasons of their refusal 5. This is made most evident in that all other natural Rights of their Peerage are notwithstanding the Suspension of this particular Branch continued to them 6. It is most undeniable their Right of Blood or other Claim to the Priviledge of Parliament is unmoved because not their taking the Test but that precedent and still continuing just Right gives them a perfect enjoyment of that particular Priviledge whenever they take the Test. Which is I hope a full Vindication of the natural Rights of Peerage from being utterly destroyed seeing it is onely one Branch that is in Question and that is onely suspended or rather deposited in trust with the House of Peers and no way destroy'd or extinguish'd 2. I come therefore to make good in the second place that the Birth-Right os the English Nobility is not turn'd into a Precarious Title nor that which in former Ages was forfeited onely by Treason is now at the mercy of every Faction or every Passion in Parliament For that can never be Precarious nor at such mercy which subsists and rests upon the common Base of the whole World for its security and that is the Law of self-preservation For when a Parliament consists of Two Houses and the Vpper House of Two Estates each Estate a Convention as is to be always presumed of the wisest and most honourable Persons of a whole Nation the Lower House hath always upon all their Proposals or Offers at any Bill the curb and restraint that this is to pass the Vpper House or House of Lords and therefore cannot rationally so much as essay them with any Law that would destroy the Rights of their Peerage But suppose the House of Commons should make so unreasonable an attempt it can never be imagin'd so intelligent a Body always provident and watchfull so naturally sensible of Honour and of their own Interest should either be impos'd upon or drawn by whatsoever motives to consent to the Destruction of their very Constitution there being no stronger Passion or more binding Cement than that of self-preservation And yet the preparation of the Two Houses for the bringing forth a Law does but form the Materials that they may be presented to the Royal Assent to to give them the form and life who as the common Father of the Countrey will judg of all Bills whether they are the Products of Passion or Faction and so they either live or are still-born When all Laws are therefore thus winnow'd and sifted through these several Explorations of Persons suppos'd to have all manner of Talents for judging and the quickest Resentments of their own Interest and Concernment whether as the Lower or Higher Body of a Nation whether Civil or Ecclesiastick and then shall all meet in the common Head who sees and feels for the whole it is very adventurous to impute such Enactions to the Faction or Passion of a Parliament Seeing this must needs be the firmest Foundation humane Affairs can be entrusted to in this World viz. the Law of self preservation ballanc'd by King Lords and Commons e're any thing becomes a Law. And although it is true the influence of the Supreme Prince the Genius and Temper of an Age or particular Inclination of Times the Configuration of various Co-incidents may preponderate to the worse in some Laws yet there must be submission to suffering even when Conscience or Reason countersways that which we call Active Obedience to such Laws or all Government must be unhinged and fall And seeing it is acknowledg'd there may be a Forfeiture by Treason of the Rights of Peerage and that it hath been in the Power of Parliaments to declare the nature and kinds of Treason there is nor can be greater danger to the Peerage in trusting themselves with the Suspension of one Branch of their Right than in trusting themselves with the whole of those Rights and it is very rare that humane Nature specially such sapient and honourable part of it conspire with a Faction or Passion against themselves or receive a precedent srom a partial Infringment of their Rights to destruction of the whole seeing if so great an Estate hath overseen in a lesser concern it is to be concluded it will be the more jealous after and where the whole is in danger and so there is no more consequence from the Precedent of the Test-Law which is either unawares or by the sorce of Truth or of meer Grace it being unlike the rest of this Discourse granted by the Reverend Authour to have been usefull in its season than from a necessary and prudent opening a vein to conclude the Person that consents to the one will therefore consent to the letting out the whole Mass of Blood. And lastly after all that hath been said the Instances this Authour gives of the first Transubstantiation-Test and the Protestation or Test of Loyalty in which the priviledge of Peerage was so carefully provided for against injury by either of those Tests do rather strengthen than weaken what hath been insisted on for it confirms how quick of apprehension the House of Peers have always been in that point and therefore they would not suffer their own Peerage to fall under any Eclipse sooner than they found absolute necessity and such a good arising as would compensate any so much as Parenthesis of the full Beams of that Glory on any of their Members and so that it should be no more than a Parenthesis till such Members mov'd themselves to such a position that no part of their Orb of Honour should be unenlighten'd But in the other Test