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A62530 A sober enquiry about the new oath enjoyned on non-conformists according to act of Parliament Tickell, John, d. 1694. 1665 (1665) Wing T1157; ESTC R2549 3,457 8

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A SOBER ENQUIRY About the Nevv Oath Enjoyned on NON-CONFORMISTS According to Act of Parliament WHither Passion Prejudice Partiality c. must not be lay'd aside in this Business Whither living under a Lawful Government and expecting Protection from it I do not owe Allegiance to it and must Submit and not endeavour to alter the Government especially when this is made the Condition of my living under its Protection Whither Considering the State of the times and the intention of our Governours to secure the Peace at home against bosom Enemies of which sort there are too many is it not rational to expect security from us and that by a lawful Oath or some other way Whither the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy mainly intended and understood against the Papists will give you sufficient security considering the Principles and Practises of the late times too too sadly yet remaining with many the which are signifyed in the Act for safety both of King and Kingdome and should not the new Oath respect such pernicious Principles and practices as at present are like if not most warily prevented to endanger both Church and State both King and Kingdome Whither they could not easily have ordered it in another form directly and in terms reversing the Covenant and was it not through Providence and Prudence ordered as it is that sober and peaceable may be distinguished from those that will not rest till all return to their old Confusions Whither the Oath though in Expressions somewhat ambiguous may not be well enough understood by unbyassed persons that will not stretch their Charity to suppose what their fancies will imagine of their Governours and their intentions in it since the words of the Preamble and the Act for Safety to whom this must be referred and other known Laws and Customs of the Land will give them sufficient information and since the sence of Governours in their Laws if not plain in words is to be by private men till a publick Authentique interpretation understood by common usage and comparing with other Laws or parts of the Law to which it belongs and may be refer'd * See Preamble Act for Safety Lord Chancellours and the Speakers Speeches And for the Legislative Power see Act for Safety For the Militia the Acts about it For Church Government see such Laws as Settle or declare all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the King and the Exercise of it only as in Commission from his Majesty about Bishops and their Powers see Laws referred to them and sometimes granting more and sometimes less Read 1. Eliz. 1.2 and 5. Eliz. 1. 32. H. 8. c. 6. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 25. H. 8. c. 19. c. 21. and an Act of this present Parliament repealing 17. Car. 1. See Cooks Institutes part 4. and his Reports about Ecclesiastical Matters and Part. Cawdryes Case c. and not by our private suppositions of their Intentions not expressed in their Laws Whither this Oath can be rationally supposed to Bind us up from more then endeavouring to overturn the foundation of the Goverment of Church or State as to the King in both and if you will too Bishops in the Goverment of the Church Any thing more then these being accounted by the Laws of the Land and by the Practices of our Kings Parliaments Synods as alterable and hath been and may be dayly if duely altered Or if this Oath may be supposed to bind us up from more as to particulars and superstructures in Constitutions and Administrations whither then can it rationally be supsed to intend more to bind us up from a turbulent and irregular endeavour of altering or as expressed in the Preamble and Act for safety in a way of Schisme Sedition and Rebellion and whither can this Oath be justly understood to bind us up from Peaceable and Regular endeavours of reforming what may be found amiss in Church or State since that the Government it self to which in the Oath I sware with the Fundamental and Positive Laws of the Land allow me as a Man an Englishman a Christian a Subject my Just though bounded libertie in that particular and must not this be understood though not expressed in the Oath * See Magn. Charta c. vet King Coronat Oath Act about Petitioning c. Whither other parallel Oaths binding to Government and Laws be not thus by general Reason Consent and Custome understood as the Kings Coronation Oath with Non Mutabimus leges Consuetud the Oaths that Members of Parliament and of Convocation take the Oaths for Judges and other Lawyers the Oaths in Courts Corporations Universities c. Compared with their known and allowed practises in their places changing and altering as to particulars both in Church and State * About the Kings reserving the Foundations of Church-Government and the Bishops under him because of his Oath yet allowing great alterations in the Government as to the Exercise and Administration for Peace see his Majesties Instructions to his Commissioners with their Paper in Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. pag. 461. See also our present Soveraigns Decleration about Ecclesiastical affairs and for the nature of such like Oaths see the sence of the long Parliament and of the Assembly in the Exhortation to the Covenant p. 5. and 6. Whither are not many Scriptures themselves thus understood with limitations of the general Expressions according to the nature and condition of the Subject and particularly Scriptures requiring obedience to Kings Masters Husbands Parents c. see Rom. 13.5 with Beza's note 1 Pet. 2.13 c. with Bishop Ushers power of Princes Ephes 6.24 c. * In all things In every thing c. Whither this Oath in effect though added and in terms it differ for reasons before expressed require more from us then we have already sworn unto in the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy * Alleg. No violence or hurt to Kings Person State or Government c. Suprem In all Causes and over all Persons Ecclesiastical c. I will assist and defend all Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions Preheminencies c. This not to alter See Stat. 1. Eliz. 1. and 5 Eliz. 1. Whither whatever the Covenant were in it self and its imposing can any sworn to it now rationally suppose himself as bound by it to act against the Government or towards the alteration of Government in Church or State since such endeavours would be against the Laws of the Land to which we owe obedience against the terms of the Covenant it self and the Exhortation to it is lawfully and in place and calling c. but especially against the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy with their antecedent obligation in force before and consequently being renewed since the Kings return Eccles 8.2 Whither not to Endeavour be more then not to Act against the Government of Church or State or that not to act be more then to be subject or submit and whither such subjection or submission be not my bounden duty to my Superiours in such like cases from the Word of God see Rom. 13.1 c. 5. c. and 1 Pet. 2. Eccles 8.2 c. Eccles 10.8 9 and 20. Prov. 30.31 and vers 24 21 22. Whither Apostles and primitive Christians made not great Conscience of submitting in such like matters as appears by Epistles and Church History see Bishop Ushers Power of Princes and duty of Subjects and whither Christianity and Laws of Christ do not bind us to the peace and good behaviour in all such matters as are not our Rights but our Superiours both in War and Peace in Church or State Whither if consequences may be considered as the taking the Oath may offend many and possibly though quaere how with our duty to our Superiors it may be suppos'd it may not secure us c. so whither the not taking it will not offend our Governours and besides bring such a scandal upon our whole Profession as can never be wash'd avvay though vvith our blood which God prevent and teach us our duty leaving Events to him Over and above VVhither may not an honest Christian take a supposedly captious and ensnareing Oath vvhen the vvords are fair for an equal and an honest sence betvveen the imposer and the taker and vvherein by honest men on every hand it would and should be understood especially in an Oath betvveen a Ruler and a Subject vvhere no such captious supposition can be made vvithout sin vvhen the end of Government and of the Oath it self declared is nothing but the peace and welfare both of Church and State * This Quere borowed from and to be referred to the Papers of another FINIS Oxford Printed for R. Davis Anno Dom. 1665.