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England's distempers, their cause and cure according to the judgment of famous princes, peers, parliaments &c., occasioned by a book of a learned frier, accusing the whole nation of perjury for abjuring transubstantiation and sent unto the author for a reply / written in defence of the true catholike faith by R.A.
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R. A. (Richard Allen)
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1677
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Wing A1043; ESTC R32701
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ENGLAND's DISTEMPERS THEIR CAUSE and CURE According to the Judgment of Famous Princes Peers Parliaments c. OCCASIONED By a Book of a Learned FRIER Accusing the whole Nation of PERJURY For Abjuring TRANSUBSTANTIATION And sent unto the Author for a Reply Written in defence of The true Catholike Faith By R. A. Pastor of the Church at Henfield in Sussex Psal 60.2 Heal the breaches thereof for it shaketh London Printed for the Author to be sold by Thomas Dring at the Harrow at Chancery-lane end in Fleetstreet 1677. To the King 's most Excellent Majestie CHARLES II. by the grace of God King of England c. Defender of the true ancient Catholike and Apostolike Faith Dread Soveraign I Am one of your Majesties poor Subjects that alwaies loved Peace and Privacy But like him that was born dumb and never spake till he saw his Father ready to be murthered so when I saw my dear Mother the Church of England ready to be strangled between two Thieves the Roman and Rakovian who have already robbed her of her Goods and good Name and now have caught her by the throat to take away her Life I could not chuse but cry out for Help and to whom should I cry but to your Majesty the great Patron of our Church The common Cry is that the Church of England must go down I humbly beseech your Majesty she may have a fair hearing which she never had yet since the Reformation but hath always been opprest with monstrous Outcries and railing Accusations And not only the Protestant Religion but Christianity it self lies at stake whilst your Majesties good Subjects are deceived deluded and divided with vain Words without Truth right Reason or common Sense as in some particulars I have made appear in this ensuing Discourse And I humbly beseech your Majesty to continue your Royal Favour to the poorer Clergy who are many ways grievously opprest to the great scandal of the Church and shame of the whole Nation I never begged any thing for my self though I have lost a fair Temporal Estate in the Service of Your Royal Father For at Your Majesties happy Return I found Your Majesty pester'd with swarms of importunate Suitors that rather than be troublesome I sate down with that resolution of Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 19.30 Yea let them take all forasmuch as my Lord the King is come again to his own house in peace The Lord give your Majesty all the Blessings of this Life and that to come the Heart of David the Head of Solomon and the Hand of Gideon And let all the Enemies of Peace and Truth flee before the Sword of the Lord and King Charles the daily Prayer of Your Majesties most Humble Faithful and Obedient Subject RICH. ALLEN To the Right Honourable HENEAGE Lord FINCH Baron of Daventry Lord High Chancellor of England AND To the Honorable Parliament Most Noble Senators and Patriots THe Noble Lord Chancellour in his excellent Speech May 1662. calls to minde the excellent temper of the Time of Queen Elizabeth the blessed Condescention and Resignation of the People then to the Crown the awful Reverence they had then to the Governours and Government both of Church and State And we may better remember the sweet times of King James when we went all together to the House of God as Friends Now to reduce the People to their ancient sweet temper must be the work of God and under him we have no hopes but onely in the great Wisdome of his Majesty and this Noble Parliament His Majesty hath done so much already as if he had studied to do for this Nation what a Roman Caesar said of his City Marmoream se relinquere quam lateritiam accepisset Suet. And Your Honours have failed of nothing belonging to your high Trust The first Cause of Breach clearly discovered would doubtless point out the right way of Peace The famous Parliament of Paris told their King once That the onely way to extirpate Heresie Schism c. was first to reform their own Church after the example of the Primitive who resisted Heresie with Preaching the Word of God The Church of England is of an excellent Constitution if all her Members were of as good a Complexion her Beauty would allure many Thousands to return to her Communion that now are gone astray The Doctrine of our Church is pure her Discipline good neither of these so much as our vicious Lives that opens the mouths of our Adversaries so wide against us There be other Crimes more heinous in their own guilt but Drunkenness is the greatest Eye-sore If that beastly Vice were supprest our Adversaries could have nothing to say but what we can well answer and stop their mouths False Brethren have always done more mischief than profest Enemies This present Discourse I was provoked to by the Challenge of a Learned Frier and humbly present it to your Honours grave Judgment The most wise God be with you and direct you in all your Consultations to the good of our Church and Nation Your Honours most humble servant RIC. ALLEN May 21. 1677. THE PREFACE A Most Noble King of this Nation was of opinion That Discord among Subjects did alienate their minds not only one from another but also from their Prince insomuch that the Bond of Unity Peace and Love could never hold long between the Prince and his People if the People were at discord among themselves Moreover That the cause of Difference among People arose chiefly from difference in Religion and that difference in Religion was fomented with nothing so much as with names of Faction Hereto assenteth a Learned Remonstrant Groninchaev who saith That names of Faction were the Devils device and served to no other end but to make and maintain Division And hereof it seems his Majesty was very sensible as appears in his gracious Act of Oblivion There is a necessity of Names for distinction sake to avoid Confusion but the mischief is when Names or Titles are given and taken falsly to blast the reputation of some and make them odious to the world and advance others in the opinion of the world with Names and Titles that no ways belong unto them so that the world is meerly cheated with vain Words false Names and Titles without Truth falsely imposed on Persons and things as I shall endeavour to shew in these following particulars ENGLAND's Distempers THEIR CAUSE and CURE CHAP. I. Of Transubstantiation THis barbarous word hath been the occasion of much Idolatry and the cause of many Troubles in the World and I am engaged to take notice of it in in the first place upon this occasion A Person of Honour told me That my History of Transubstantiation should be answered After two years a learned Friar sends me a Book called An Answer wherein he chargeth our famous Church and Nation with Perjury for abjuring Transubstantiation in subscribing a Declaration set forth to that purpose by Authority of his Majesty and the Parliament