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A47752 Querela temporum, or, The danger of the Church of England in a letter from the Dean of ----- to ----- Prebend of. Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722. 1694 (1694) Wing L1142; ESTC R7679 24,869 29

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Sir Walter Young Mr. Chedwick Sir Patience Ward Sir Robert Clayton And a long c. in other Offices and Places of Trust through the Kingdom too long to be here inserted The Whig and I know not which to say Natural or Unnatural Libertine the Lord Sidney now Earl of Rumney is made Master of the Ordnance and Governour of the Cinque Ports and Dover Castle c. And Whig Sir Tho. Littleton is under him in the Ordnance Lord Cuts an Atheistical Whig is made Governour of the ●●le of Wight These and many more are the Men now employ'd Little needy Fellows are put into Employments of greatest Honour and Import so they be but Fanatick enough As Johnston Secretary for Scotland who the other day meerly for Bread travell'd with Sir Rob. Barnard his Condition being then very necessitous though he is now one of the chief Managers in both Kingdoms His only Merit is the new fashion'd Theism grafted upon rigid Fanaticism the last of which he derived from his Father that Arch Rebel Wariston who was Clerk in ordinary to the Presbyterian General Assembly in his time and as furious against the Mitre as the Crown Such another is that Infamous James Stuart an Inveterate Rebel and pardon'd by King James now Knighted forsooth and fills the Place of Lord Advocate which answers to that of Attorny General here but of greater Honour and Interest in the State Castairs a Super-presbyterian that is a Cameronian Preacher attends K. William's Person both at home and abroad like a Jewel in his Ear We make a Show in the Chapel but He Exercises the Office of Confessor in the Closet His Advice is taken in all the Spiritual Promotions of our Church and we feel the Effects of it very sensibly We see among the new made Bishops those who were formerly Fanatical Preachers and those who of all our Number are least Zealous for the Church and most Latitudinarian for a Comprehension of Dissenters and a Dispensation with our Liturgy and Discipline The Archbishop himself has put on a strange Moderation that way The Tide runs strong both in Church and State towards a Fanatical Level And the Pattern of the Scotish Reformation stares us in the Face more Glaringly than in 42. And let us remember That the Covenant now Rampant in Scotland obliges them to carry on the work of that Reformation in England as well as in Scotland as they did before And they have the Impudence to pray publickly for it now in their Churches for our Conversion as they call it from Prelacy which they call Popery and Idolatry that is our Liturgy And yet their Agents there would make us believe That they intend no Alteration of our Constitution in England But are we to be so Deceived now Have we never been Deceived by them in the same manner before How often did they protest to Marquiss Hamilton Commissioner for King Charles the First That they did not intend to abolish Episcopacy Large Declaration 114 115. 69. and 173. And they used to perswade the Scrupulous That they might take the Covenant without prejudice to Episcopacy In their Answer to the Fourth Reply of the Doctors of Aberdeen they say You will have all the Covenanters against their Intention and whether they will or not to Disallow and Condemn the Articles of Perth and Episcopal Government But it is known to many Hundreds that the Words were purposely conceived for Satisfaction of such as were of your Judgment that we might all joyn in one Heart and Covenant They had Lower and Higher Senses of this Oath Any thing to get you once within their Circle and though they press the Obligation of it upon all alike like the Artifice of some of the Romish Emissaries who to a Person tenacious of the Reformed Doctrins represent the Church of Rome as little or nothing differing from us in Fundamentals as they call them and will let him keep all the Opinions they can't perswade him from only be reconciled to the Church to avoid Schism But when he is once in then there is no stop they can Drive him to the utmost They bring in many Hundreds of their private Doctors for the lower Sense of their General Councils as their Spawn of the Covenant do leave their many Hundreds of private Persons who they at first pretended knew their Minds in wording of the Covenant to be much lower than the Letter of the Oath seemed to import But yet they would never afterwards allow any such private Interpretations as the true and natural Sense of the Oath But boldly charged them of Perjury who in the least Tittle departed from them And how many Oaths and Protestations had we from our English Parliament in 42. That they never intended the Abolition either of Episcopacy or the Liturgy But on the contrary they expressed a great Zeal for Both till they had got a Set of Fanatical Ministers in the State and They then soon introduced Ministers of the same Kidney into the Church And did not they then set up the Inclinations of the People on their side And did not they carry it And yet they had not half the Pretence as now For before that Rebellion England had been long in the quiet Possession of Episcopacy without almost any Grumbling against it and that but of so small and inconsiderable a Party as did not seem worth notice These Monsters were Bred and Grew up in the Storm But since the Over-flowing of that Schismatical Rebellion our Land has been Fertile of as many Heterogenious Productions as the Mud of Nilus leaves upon Egypt There are almost as many various Sects and Armies of Dissenters now as there were single Mutineers at that time And oh the Difference England had a King then who was Bred from his Childhood in the Episcopal Communion and zealous for it even to Martyrdom But our present King had the Misfortune to himself and to us to be Educated under the Geneva Model made Erastian in Holland And it cannot be imagined That the Alteration of his present Circumstances have wrought as great a Change in his Principles That would be if not a Miracle to suppose him to be wholy Latitudinarian and indifferent to all Religions at least as to Church Government which is the Point We are concern'd for But alass the Measures he has taken in Scotland and here too as fast as it can go has sadly undeceived us and given Demonstration That he is as zealous for his Religion as any other King at least In short it is evident That King James never took more Pains to place such Ministers in the State and Bishops in the Church as were if not Popishly affected yet least Inclin'd against it than K. William has done by the same Method in Favour of Presbytery And there is yet a farther Reason for him to put himself Intirely into their hands as soon as he possibly can and that is That he can never Trust to Us. He sees we cannot