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A80378	The interest of England how it consists in vnity of the Protestant religion. With expedients moderate and effectuall to establish it by the extirpation of the papacy. By a member of the House of Commons.	Constantine, William, Sir, 1611 or 12-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing C5948; Thomason E121_47; ESTC R22632	28,124	40

which we are necessarily inforc'd t is wisdome to chuse the least as we rather suffer mischiefes then an inconv 〈…〉 Therefore prohibit we not masse in the houses of Embassadours nor punish we usury though the a 13. Eli 8. Statute votes it to be forbidden by th● Law of God a sin and detestable b 4 Rep. 20. Multa conceduntur per obliquum quae non conceduntur de directo Thus I have expos'd my sence vindicated I hope sufficiently from favour to their cause though perhaps not without pitty and some tendernesse to misguided zeale and persons All which I submit as ingeniously to better reason as is expected unto mine 8. Clause THat all persons that shall practice to absolve Withdrawing from allegiance or Religion perswade or withdraw any of the Subjects of the Kings Majesty c from their naturall obedience to His Majesty his heires or successors or to reconcile them to the Pope or Sea of Rome or to move them or any of them to promise obedience to any pretended authority of the Sea of Rome or to any other Prince state or Potentate * Saying masse in open and known places or shall openly say or cause masse or any other idolatrous service to be said in open and notorious places whereby any Protestant may have liberty and be permitted to enter by the will and free consent of such person so saying or causing it to be said That then all such persons their procurers counsellors ayders and maintainers knowing and consenting to the same shall be to all intents adjudged c. Ut ante 3 Iac. 4. The former part of this clause is expresse in 3. Jac. 4. the latter may obviate a mischiefe which is too frequent scandalous and temptatious at the perill of such as have best opportunity to avoyd it 9 Clause Delivery of the armes of a Recusant THat if any Popish Recusant shall not before the _____ day of _____ and so from time to time voluntarily deliver up all his Armour or Ammunition c. or shall knowingly keepe or detaine either to his owne use or to the use of any other any such Armour Ammunition c. other then such quantity as he shall be allowed to retaine for the necessary defence of himselfe his House and family such Recusant being thereof convicted upon reiw of two Iustices or other testimony shall abjure the Realm if he shall returne he shall be adjudg'd a Traytor c 1 Iac. 4. 3 Ia. 4. Formerly such concealements have beene practis'd that the Lawes injoyning Iustices to search become fruitlesse or if upon diligent inquiry Armes Ammunition c. were discovered the only penalty was removall and the offendor becomes instructed how more closely to conceale a new supply But a clause to this sence imposing the delivery and retainer upon the perill of the poss●ssor wherein if he proves faulty he undergoes so deepe a censure will doubtlesse be more effectuall to disarme them 10. Clause To discharge the estate of a Recusant of incumbrances by Statutes c. THat it shall be lawfull for all Recusants seised of estates in Fee or Tayle to dispose of them by sale or otherwise according to the due ceremonies of Law acquitted of all former forfeitures and penalties incurd by reason of any former statute composition or agreement meerly for Recusancy A Recusants Land is so incumbred and charged by severall Statutes in duties to the Crowne that without some clause to this sence few will adventure to purchase upon their Titles And it seemes reasonable if we disable their issue to inherit to inable them to sell for their best advantage provided that if they transplant their families their money be returned by way of exchange and not transported 11. Clause THat all men whatsoever An Oath of allegiance to the King and fidelity to the Kingdom to be taken necessarily by all that doe or shall inhabite in the Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales being of the age of one and twenty yeeres shall within one yeare next ensuing or within one yeare next after they shall attaine to the age of one and twenty become of sound mind out of prison or r●turned into the Land c. take the Oath hereafter mentioned before the Minister and Church-wardens of every such Parish where they shall inhabite openly in the Church after Evening Service in some Lords Day which taking together with the name of the party the Minister and Church-Wardens shall register in some booke to be kept for the same purpose and for such their ent●y shall have _____ And if any person shall neglect or not tender himselfe to take the same Oath in manner and forme aforesaid the said Minister and Church-Wardens shall certyfye the name of such person to the next generall sessions and he shall incurre being thereof convicted the dangers penalties and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of provision and premunire made in the sixteenth yeare of the raigne of King Richard the second c. I suppose the Oath to this effect 3 Iac. 4. An Oath of allegiance to be tak●n by all persons c. 1. I A. B. doe truly and sincerely acknowledge testifye and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Soveraigne Lord King Charles is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of other His Majesties Dominions and Countries 3 Ia. 4 2. And I sweare from my heart that notwithstanding any declaration or sentence of Excommunication or deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his successors or by any authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his Sea against the said King his Heires or Successors or any absolution of the ●ai● Subjects from their obedience I will beare faith and true allegiance to his Majesty his Heires and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their persons their Crowne and Dignity by colour of any such Sentence and Declaration or otherwise 3. Iac. 4. 3 And I will make known unto His Majesty his Heires and Successors all treasons and trayterous conspiracies which I shall know or heare of to be against him or any of them 1. Eli. 1. 4. I doe also promise and vow that to my power I shall assist and defend all jurisdictions priviledges preheminences and authorities granted or belonging to His Majesty His heires and successors or united and annexed to the imperiall Crown of this Realme Protestation 5. I shall also maintaine and defend as far as lawfully I may the power and priviledges of Parliament the lawfull rights and liberties of the Subject and every person that takes this Oath in whatsoever he shall doe in the lawfull pursuance of the same Protestation 6. And to my power and as far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and meanes indeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shal either by force practice coonsels plots conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present Oath contained 2. Iac. 4. 7. And these things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sw●are according to these expresse words by me spoken and according to the plaine sence and common understanding of the said words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever and I doe and will renounce all pardons dispensations or absolutions whatsoever to the contrary 8. And I make this recognition and Oath heartily 3 Iac. 4. willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian So helpe me God He that deliberatly praecogitate shall refuse such an Oath ut videtur has designes of Treason to the King or State He that maliciously praecogitate shall infrindge it implies he is no Christian As Divinity confounds the one so Jus gentium the Law of Nations explodes the other Rerum progressus ostendunt multa quae in initio non povidentur 6. Rep. 40. The Drift May Glory be to God in the liberty purity power of his worship Honour to my King in the might of his dominions Prosperity to my Country England in the Unity of its Interest And May some moderate Overture bee here hinted as may contribute to stanch the gore of Ireland Faxit Dem. FINIS Errata FOr reluction p. 15. l. 21. r. reluctancy p. 16. in the margin for Cricaeus r. Li●c●eus p. 23. l. 11. for towed r. towred p. 24 l. 1. r. that for Forgery id l. 34. for in●ndita r. inauditae p. 25. l. 4. for release r Rehearse p. id l. 30. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 31. l. 20. for superfortation r. supersaetations ib. l. 34. inandita ●●ead inunditae

of this as also the chalice in the Sacrament had beene granted in the Trent Councill at the instance of the Germans but that it would have open'd a gap to demand an abrogation of all positive constitutions by which only the Popes prerogative is preserved Card. Pio de Carpi dis con Trid. pag 460. for by those which are de jure Divino no profit doth arise but that which is spirituall 4. Confession must be injoyn'd with this inforcement that if any sinne were pretermitted the totall was ineffectuall whereby there is a dayly discovery of the very thoughts of men and present prevention if any thing be projected that 's mischeivous to their cause and this opportunity they aptly use to perswade their penitents to ransome their sinnes by consecrating their goods unto the Church as also to excite the multitude to sedition and tumult with annexing such conditions to their absolution as best conduce to the designes they aime at 5. The Doctrine of merits must be inforced that there may be a treasury in the Church full of their workes who supererrogate the dispensation whereof is committed to the Pope who when he gives indulgences recompenses the debt of the sinner by assigning so much in value out of the treasury and lest this treasure might be deficient the Merits of Christ are added which are infinite A.D. 1100. vib 2. Hist Con. Trent lib. 1. The grant of these was first practised by Pope Vrban to all such who made VVarre to regaine the holy Land after to such as maintained a Souldier in those wars In progresse of time the like indulgence was granted to such as rebel'd against their owne Princes if Excommunicate or refractory to the Church of Rome But by Leo decimus and so since it 's granted to whosoever will give money extending it to the dead No sooner shall the mony be disburs'd but the party pro quo is freed from the paines of purgatory And who will be sparing of his revenew to secure himselfe or friend of Heaven Deus bone quot hoe commentum de purgatorio misere afflixit silly people are dar'd and squeas'd by this figment as a Larke by a Hobby So Lavatar Lavat Part. 1. cap. 16. Sir Ed. Sands his spec Europ Christionagraphy U. ꝑ tout 6. By pretensed power of dispensation they interpose in Princes marriages and legitimate illegall issues whereby it is as necessary for some princes to support this nfinite authority of the Pope as to continue the honour of their birth or title to their Crownes They intermeddle also in all treaties for if any Prince be involved in hard conditions and falsly desires a freedome The Popes Almighty power can dispense and justifyes the unholinesse of the act by the holinesse of his authority Id. Pag. 43. By which the princes protestant are irreparably prejudic'd and brought to a continuance of incertainty in their weightiest resolutions there being a warrant dormant for all men to breake league or oath with them Their Church having long since declared Nulla fides cum haereticis That leagues with them are more holy in their breaking then their making 7. VVhen the corruptions of the Clergy like the sonnes of Ely made men abhorre the offering of the Lord 1 Sam. 2.17 and misdoubt the Doctrines of their Priests whose practice gave themselves the lye and when that which should be Veneranda raritate venerabilis was prostitute for Tith and Testament the profitable jurisdiction whereof they had incroacht A.D. 1200. Mr. Seld. Hist. Tyths cap. 14. pag. 488. and became thereby as Judges of their owne titles so sharers with all executors then began the naturall censure of the Church excommunication to be contemned Those whose haire bristled whose flesh trembled at the sentence which ejects them Gods providence and the * 1 Cor. 5. company of all good men now disvalued it apprehending none lesse holy then those that most denounc'd it and that in cause● where their owne interest was ingag'd The Clergy then to preserve their unnaturall Courts and credit in some warmth sue for saecular fomentations to force that with the Sword which would not open to the Keys and by such monstrous assistance as fines imprisonments tortures nay and death for they had once power in the writ de a 2 H. 4. 15. Fitz. N. B. 269. d Br. Heresy 1. 10. H. 7. so 17. Haeretico comburendo they worry the body to conforme to their lavish pleasures leaving the soule to fester and repine to clense which was the drift of Christ by gentle admonition meekenesse c. in Church-Discipline 8. Now the prime Engine that keepes this politick Fabrick in continued motion is the unfathom'd power of their Hierarchie wherby the inferior vowes canonicall obedience to his superior and so upwards till it determine in the sence of one man who designing any thing of import and interest disperses it into the severall Diocesses from thence it is diffus'd into the severall parishes where the Church Chaplaine their avowed Creature Sermons and by it poysons his dull auditors having that mighty advantage to discourse often in an attentive audience Dani. in Ed. 2. 2 K. 24. and that without interruption or reply such was that at Oxford by the Bishop of Hereford upon the Text my head akes my head by which he most undivinely concludes that an aking and sick head of a Kingdome must of necessity be taken off and that of Doctor Shaw at Pauls Crosse who out of the Text Bastard slips shall never prosper Wise 4. seconded by Fryer Picket upon Woe to the Realme where a child is King invey'd against the undoubted right of the fift Edward These with some like confederate preachments so cosend the blind credulity of the people that the second * An. reg 20. 1327. An. reg 1. 1483. Edward was suffer'd to be depos'd and the * An. reg 20. 1327. An. reg 1. 1483. fift a tender innocent murder'd in the Tower The power of this misterious Church-chaine was oft checkt at by our Princes but never mated till our eight a 21 H. 8. 13. 1 Ed. 6. 12. Henry listning to his great counsell first unscal'd the eyes of his darke subjects and inabled all to s●arch Scriptures b Acts 17 11. whether the thing were so whereby the Clergy became copies no farther then they agreed with the Originall which was so evident for I suppose the holy spirit more able then any man or counsell to dictate in expressions most easy to be apprehended that the sence of every man convinc'd those aforesaid spurious and rebellious inferences Then he unhatcht the lincks of this Hierarchie from its dependance on the Pope and affixt it more immediately to his Crowne with the stile of c 24 H. 8. 12. 25 H 8. 20 19. 35 H 8. 1. Supremum caput Ecclesiae anglicanae which was his d Ca●●rics case 5. 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