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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48411	The Life of Boetius recommended to the author of the life of Julian		1683 (1683)	Wing L2024; ESTC R20135	33,660	110

Patriarch of the West and this is the reason why the Priesthood and Ordination of that See remains good here and why the Church of England draws thence her Succession and Descent a thing zealously insisted upon by her learned Members and particularly by the smart and inquisitive Mr. Mason Now the Presbyterian Assembly and much more that of the other Dissenters is no Church at all having no Bishop and therefore no Ordination or Sacraments Nay the Church of England in her 19th Article defines the true Church to be A Congregation of Faithful Men that have the Sacraments duly administred So that the wilful loosing this Blessing is a Curse of the first Magnitude depriving them that incurre it of the very Candlestick at least of the inestimable benefit of our Lords Supper which was instituted for our Refreshment and Strength and for the remembrance of his Passion till he comes III. What good Protestant would not sooner be of a Religion which converted us from Paganism and left as Cambden says Many Monuments of Piety and Devotion to the Honour of God and the propagation of the Christian Faith And among these may be nam'd Churches Bishoprics Deaneries Canonries Colledges c. I say what good Protestant would not prefer such a Religion to One which instead of advancing the Christian Worship has not only put us in constant broils but profan'd and pull'd down the very Churches themselves and which de fa●to gobbled up and swallowed without the least stop or Kecking the Lands of the Prelates and the other Ecclesiastical Governours Nor would the Vniversities have stood two years longer had not God by a Miracle restor'd His Majesty IV. To come even to down right Popery and their most ●●ightful Opinions What good ●r●testant would not rather with a Lutheran and a Papist believe if Will and Choice can make a Man believe That Christ is corporally present after Consecration than as Sectaries do That the outward part or sign of the Sacrament is still meer Bread Wine a Tenet wholly opposit to our very first Rudiments in Religion for the public Catechism in the Common Prayer declares and tells us * That the Body and Bloud of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the ●aithful in the Lords Supper V. Who had not rather Communicate under one Kind than not at all for several of the true Protestants never do Nay in their very expressions they call the SACRAMENTS by the name of Beggerly Elements and Formalities beneath the Sain●s and Regenerate VI. Who would not rather say AMEN to Prayers in the China or Coptic Languages where he is sure that the Bishops and other pious and wise Governours of the Church fram'd them than to the extemporary Vociferations of every Enthusiast to whom as long experience has show'd us Tautologie and Nonsence are Essential And more especially when Sedition we know is their Aime and Blasphemy an usual Adjunct VII Who will not deeme it a less and a more pardonable error To desire the Prayers of a good fellow Creature who as it chances hears not our Requests and to wish also a happy Voyage and the speedy getting home of a friend who is already it seems at his Iourney 's End for thus in effect lyes the Insignificancy of Invocating Saints and of Suffrages for the Dead than in the first place omi●ting the many horrid Opinions of other Sects to deny with BEZA and his Desciples the PRESBYTERIANS Christ's descent into Hell one of the Triumphant Victories of his Death And secondly to affirm His not d●ing for all ● a Doctrine that besides the Blackness of it makes so many of their Hypocondriacal Followers commonly the quietest and best meaning People of the Rout to Hang themselves and so ensure their Damnation out of meer fear of being Damn'd ● And here again I must desire my Reader to remember what I have now said dos by no means prove any Popish opinion true but only that the Phanatical Doctrine is worse and certainly what follows will yet more evidently make it appear VIII 'T is better be under the lash of one spiritual Superiour than Ten thousand Popes Presbytery making every pragmatical Minister worse in some respects than a Hildebrand or any of his angry Successors For as to a private man unless he be like Wickliff Oldcastle and the like very eminent and remarkable he will hardly or never be taken notice of by the Court of Rome and its great Officers whereas under Calvin's Iron Rod no youthful Man shall ●e merry no body mus● so much as dance no Abigal or Handmaid shall cramp Sir Roger with the Book of Martyrs or play little tricks with his Reverend Cloak or wilfully fail perchance in well starching his mystical band but will be presently sent headlong to the Devil or forc'd to a Penance harder it may be in their opinion than going half way to him Then for great Monarchs and great Governours let any man judge whether it be not first more honourable for them to contend with a Foreign Bishop and Prince than with an Assembly of their meanest Subjects both in Quality and Estate But in the next place when we come to consider the peril of their sacred Persons there is no manner of equality in the matter for there are even Laws in every Popish Kingdom against the Popes Bulls Sentences and the like and the entrance of his Legats and Envoys may be legally hinder'd Nay the very Decrees of his Councils as we see by those of Trent are receiv'd and unreceiv'd as Princes order Besides this the stout ones have Imprison'd ruffling Popes as did the Emperour Charles V. and Philip the Fair of France Others have laugh'd at his Holiness's anger and beaten him with his own Weapons that is to say have oppos'd him with the Bishops and Clergy Thus dealt the Venetians with Paul V. and thus serv'd this French King the late Alexander VII and especially the present Innocent XI whom the Gallican Church has so notably baited Our Will. Rufus our Henry I● our Edw. I. and several other of our Kings and reckon'd also good Sons of the Church have disputed and got the point of the Pope and whosoever reads the story of Hen. II. and King Iohn will find ●hat they had done the like had they not been altogether inconstan● and irresolute Now under the Presbyterian Yoak what Prince ever contended with those Tyrants without the utmost shame and loss for these AEgyptian Taskmasters being at home and not only knowing their own strength but like skilful Knight ●rrants ● the defects of their Adversaries Armour they never strike but the Blow proves deadly their greatest mercy being to make their ●rince sit publicly in the Stool of Repentance nor must their Synodical Ordinances be disputed or disobey'd by any Governour whatsoever These and the like vexations made King Iames who understood the Party fully so often to repeat that true and witty Apothegm No Bishop no King

but Will that can think any thing a Sin which runs counter to his Aim and yet to promote it shall without scruple do the same thing and a thou●and times worse For were not Sir G. WAKEMAN's IVRY Middlesex ●Gentlemen and Protestants of Account and Estates And was it not proved to them in open Court That CORKER was never President of the Benedictins contrary to Oa●es's positive Oath with many o●her by particulars as ma● be seen in the printed Tryal But besides this did not Sir Philip Lloyd declare That the said Oates before the Counci● when Sir George was first accused by him call'd upon God and with lifted-up hands being prest to a positive Accusation by the Board cry'd That he knevv n●thing m●re against him than vvhat he 〈◊〉 already accused him of which was only about some 〈◊〉 says from the Iesuits Yet for 〈…〉 and Sir Philip's being ● M●n of Quality nay a Man 〈…〉 Pap●s● rightly urges 〈…〉 not for his head assert th 〈…〉 ●hing ● well knowing 〈…〉 ●ouncel and my LORD SHAFTSB their then President would not countenance a Lie I say notwithstanding all these circumstances that JURY was so calumniated by all True Protestants that One of them I remember coming upon the CHANGE next day was houted at and shun'd as if he had been infected or the most infamous man alive Nor are their Tongues and Pe●s yet quiet in that Affair and ●s for Sir Philip they have thirst●d for his very Bloud ever since But to proceed a little further upon the same Key what Attempts have the Tender Consciences made upon His Royal Highness's very Honour and Life For first tho' Oates and Bedlo as I said before freed that excellent Prince from any Conspiracy against the King or his Crown yet no sooner did Dangerfield appear with that most impossible story That three of the Imprison'd Lords when they had already smarted for their supposed Credulity when they had several Popish younger Brothers at hand and Partizans to be sure in any Plo● of Theirs and when they well saw what Rewards and Encouragements all the Discoverers received should yet take a common Rogue a meer Stranger out of Newgate to Kill the King I say no sooner did this Fellow appear with his impossible story and tho' afterwards he was prov'd in the Tryal where he was concerned the greatest Recorded Villain that has been heard of and false also in the main particulars of his Averments and which is more a Forger of an Affidavit even against His Highness but the whole Party toil'd like Bulls to have him received for a good Witness which would have certainly succeeded had not the Peers utterly rejected it as abominable Nay to shew further how tender a thing a True Protestant Conscience is they asserted in Print That Dangerfield ' s Testimony tho' he were prov'd Perjur'd was te be taken against a Papist and all this passion and heat only to Murther the first Prince of the Bloud For the Reader must know that Dangerfield had formerly been with the King Duke Lord Peterborough and Secretary Coventry and had thereby sufficient room to expatiate in as True Protestants and the Spirit should suggest Now seeing this hopeful Youth had been as I said with the King Duke c. he and his infer That his account must be True forsooth since it shews they say he was mightily intrusted with secrets by his having access to such Great Persons and yet who knows not but the common Hang-man if he says he has a Treason to discover and Dangerfield pretended to know of a * Presbyterian-Plot shall have admittance to His Majesty and to his greatest Officers at an easie rate In the next place when this project fail'd Fitz-Harys afforded a new one for tho' he were sent to Newgate by the King and Councel as being besides other Crimes and Suspicions taken with a Treasonable Libel in his Pocket yet durst two or three City-Officers go and examine him tho a Prisoner of State and committed by that Supreme Power So that presently after he that had several things to say against the True Protestants had the King or His Ministers encourag'd such Accusers had now God knows what to declare not only concerning the Popish Plot and many Great Persons not yet accused but even against His Royal Highness and how undeniable and plain an Evidence as the times stood would this have been if the Lords had receiv'd the Impeachment every body is fully sensible Nay the Peers were highly exclaim'd at because they wav'd their own Iurisdiction and left the Malefactor to the Common Law Nor did the men of conscience fail to threaten the Kings-Bench if they dar'd to meddle with him and all this we see to gain a new Witness who by the help of their Cries and other Artifices would have certainly at last overthrown the very Government Yet after all this huge Clutter and Do when the poor Creature came to the Gallows he sufficiently show'd how he had been tamper'd with and that he knew nothing of any Plot but what tended to the Eternal Shame and not Rest of Mr. Baxter's Saints as may be seen in Dr. Hawkins's Narrative all along Lastly for I 'l run to no more particulars at present let any sober man consider what a fearful stir they would have made and how many fatal disorders and confusions must have ensued their improvement if Mr. THYN's Murther had not been discover'd as it was The Horse-men of Israel we see were all booted and spurred and unanimously ready for the Quiet again of the Kingdom to throw the Fact on the Papists who now have some reason I confess to boast of Miracles for had not the Assassins been miraculously taken as it were in the Act which even hinder'd them from the impudence of denying it they would have been so far from being search'd after that a man might have run in danger of the Pillory especially if some tender consciences were of his Iury for offering so much as to suspect them Things therefore standing thus how could the Popish Duke as they call him have escap'd the new Witnesses that were already consulting the Coffee-houses for their Lesson when there was so much malice in the Party and some small pretence for a Lye Nor should any of the obnoxious Ministers o● State nor any Courtier Mr. Thyn being reputed an Enemy to the Court have mist of being hamper'd no not the King Himself been free from Calumny truly some have had the impudence already to suspect Him of knowing the whole Plot and all its Appendices unless that of Pickering's Silver Bullets for as to Sir George W●keman's Pills and Design Sir Philip Lloyd's being sent to his Tryal by the Board makes it plain and as they think beyond dispute Now after all these cursed Defamations of His Majesty these bloudy Conspiracies against His faithful Brother and Heir and the many Endeavours against His best Protestant Friends and