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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56565	A pastoral letter from the four Catholic bishops to the lay-Catholics of England	Leyburn, John, 1620-1702.; Giffard, Bonaventure, 1642-1734.; Smith, James, 1645-1711.; Ellis, Philip, 1652-1726.	1688 (1688)	Wing P675; ESTC R13713	3,709	9

sufficient Inducements for your endeavoring to give full Satisfaction in this Point His Majesty hath been graciously pleased not only to favor you with His Royal Protection but moreover to honor many amongst you with a share of the Government under Him. He hath admitted you to Employments both Civil and Military from which by the severity of our Laws you have formerly been excluded He hath plac'd you in Circumstances of manifesting to the World that it was neither want of Loyalty nor Ability that occasion'd your former Exclusion He hath capacitated you hereby to remove the Prejudices which in former Reigns your Religion and Persons have lain under So that henceforth there will be no reason to apprehend your being Sufferers or that your Fellow-Subjects will be preferr'd before you in management of public Trusts on these accounts since Religion is no longer a Bar to your Preferment We therefore earnestly desire those amongst you who are already in Offices so to behave themselves in them that neither His Majesty may have occasion to repent nor His other Subjects to repine at the Choice he hath made of them We exhort those who are not yet in public Employment to bear their Lots with Modesty and Patience without Murmuring or Envy We conjure you all to abstain from speaking or acting any thing that may seem to have the least indecent reflection upon the Government The Councils of Kings are Sacred as well as their Persons and it is a kind of Sacrilege in Subjects to be too bold with either Their Duty is not to approach their Persons but with respect nor discourse of their Councils without submission Let every Soul We speak to you again in the words of St. Paul be subject to Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God and those that be are ordained of God Therefore he that resisteth Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they who resist do purchase to themselves Damnation What in this Text of the Apostle is said of Higher Powers must be understood not only of the Supreme Authority which is seated in the King's Person but proportionably also of that which His Majesty is pleas'd to impart to His Ministers of State and other Magistrates in their respective stations It is the King that acts principally in and by those Subordinate Officers His Royal Character being stampt upon them challengeth respect from the rest of His Subjects and renders their failings therein a Trespass in some measure against Majesty it self Having thus minded you of the general and more substantial Duties incumbent on you We do not judge it either necessary or proper to descend at present to such others as are of a more special Nature Occasions hereafter will not be wanting of inculcating these when We enter upon Our respective Provinces where We are to dedicate Our Labors to your Spiritual Improvement and where We hope to find such Dispositions as by rendring Our Pastoral Sollicitude profitable to you may make it easie and comfortable to Our selves Pray for Us And the God of Peace who brought out from the dead the great Pastor of the Sheep in the Blood of the Eternal Testament our Lord Jesus Christ fit you in all Goodness working in you that which is pleasing in his sight Your most affectionate Servants in Christ John Bishop of Adramite V. A. Bonaventure Bishop of Madaura V. A. Philip Bishop of Aureliople V. A. James Bishop of Callipoli V. A. LONDON Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel and are to be sold at his Printing-house on the Ditch-side in Black-Friers 1688. 1 Tim. 1. Eph. 4. Gal. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 1 Pet. 3. Rom. 13. Heb. 13.