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A70712 The New test of the Church of England's loyalty, examined by the old test of truth and honesty 1687 (1687) Wing N781; ESTC R7988 8,085 14

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THE New TEST OF THE Church of England's LOYALTY Examined by the Old TEST OF Truth and Honesty LONDON Printed by R. G. 1687. THE NEW TEST OF THE Church of England's LOYALTY c. THE reason why the Church of England may above any Separatists from her appropriate to her self the Principles of true Loyalty is so apparent from her constant Practise and Doctrin that one would think this Scribler of the New Test never considered it at all though he tells us he hath often consider'd because he cannot find it For I challenge him or any man to shew me any that are not of her Communion not excluding even the Calves of the Hind the Sons of the Church of Rome it self that did constantly maintain the Doctrin of Non-resistance to the Supream Magistrate and practise according to it as our Church and her true Sons have always done Was there ever any such Doctrin as the Deposing of Kings the subjecting them to a foreign Bishop or to an Assembly at home the making them Trustees of the People or ascribing an Authority Co-ordinate to theirs in the Peoples Representatives the founding Dominion in Grace or Lastly owning a Power in the inferiour Magistrates to Act without or contrary to their Commission taught by our Loyal Mother and have not some or all of these been taught by some of the other Parties So that if they are Loyal it is no thanks to their Religion for it Have not all the other Parties acted according to these Antimonarchical principles Or can the worst of our Enemies with any truth accuse our Church or her true Followers of any such Actions But what saith this Test-maker can be more ridiculous then for such who cannot pretend to infallibility even in matters of Faith to assume to themselves an inerrability in civil Obedience Oh profound Sense and Reason what cannot Men be Loyal and Act according to their constant Principles of Loyalty without being infallible Or will not this Gentleman give us leave to be so kind to him or any of the Members of the Church of Rome as to think them indued with Loyalty without robbing their Holy Father the Pope of his Prerogative of Infallibility and ascribing part to his Sons Did ever any Man of the Church of England assume to himself an inerrability in his Obedience onely so long as he kept close to his Rule his Church hath given him I am sure on the contrary the Sons of that Church that assumes to her self Infallibilty in matters of Faith can never be indued with that singular Gift of Loyalty so long as they keep themselves out of the reach of the Anathema of their infallible Council of Lateran affix'd by an inerrable Canon upon all such as deny the Pope's power to depose Heretical Princes or Favourers of Hereticks So that I must needs own if they are Loyal their Loyalty far exceeds ours since they are Loyal at the peril of their immortal Souls whereas we can only venture our Temporal concerns for our Prince If therefore you will shew your selves truly Loyal in the next Address renounce that disloyal Canon of the Council of Lateran or else we must believe either that you are not Catholicks as in your Religion you love to be called or else do but serve a turn in your Pretences of Loyalty Out of his abundant kindness to the Members of the Church of England this Gentleman is pleased to allow them to have been Faithful and Serviceable to King Charles the First we are extreamly obliged to him for this so favourable a Concession and indeed I could not but have some thoughts of presenting an Address of thanks to him for it But that he hath saved me the trouble in so well explaining it For he tells us that this was only in our own defence and not joyning with the common Enemy to cut our own Throats nay further that the Ambition of our Church occasion'd the late War and the loss of the King's Life and Crown If so then our Church was serviceable to King Charles the First with a vengeance This me thinks looks something like a Dear-joye's Witticism or in plain English a down-right Bull that we should be serviceable to our King and yet occasion the loss of his Crown and Life But it is no matter what Contradictions he writes if he can but thereby bespatter the Church of England he knows he is to deal with a People of an implicit Faith that can swallow any Contradictions or false Stories Did ever any Man thus out-face the Sun as he hath done in these Aspersions Do not all Men that know any thing of the History of the late times know that if we of the Church of England would have joyn'd with the Rebels or but have owned the Usurpers Authority we might have enjoyed all our Rites and have expected much greater Preferments Was not this then very like consulting our own present Interest to suffer Sequestrations Decimations Plunderings Imprisonments nay Death it self rather then Act against our Duty to our Prince Is it not as visible as the Sun that the first pretence for the late War was for securing of Property and that Religion was but made a stalking Horse to catch the Rabble How then was the Ambition of our Church the occasion of it But Oh the admirable Loyalty of the Romanists That served the King without any Prpspect of advantage to themselves Nay when their Services were rejected by the King and their Persons banished from his Presence Did not the Rebellious party cry out against Popery and pretend that they only designed to secure the Nation against Papists they knew or at least at first believed as he saith they should meet with no quarter from the Rebels and therefore where should they fly for safety to the Royal party but as soon as His Majesty was forced by his Parliament to discard them and that they saw the other party would receive them how many of them Listed themselves under their Banners And Vid. the Works of K. Charles the Martyr fol. 323. All Men know the great numbers of Papists which serve in their the Rebells Army Commanders and others and hath not Old Peter Du Moulin long since asserted and offered to prove it by undoubted Evidence that a Jesuit at the very execution of his late Majesty K. Charles the First was seen amongst the Rebels throwing up his Cap for Joy insulting in the most barbarous manner over that poor Prince in his last Tragick Exit So true is it That never any of that Communion served that Party This infallible Author is resolved he will do the Church of England's business for Loyalty and therefore he rakes up all the odious Acts that ever have been done since the infancy of our Church as he words it p. 4. in fine and very obligingly fathers them upon her Of all which the Scotch Answer viz. Bellarmine thou lyest is a sufficient confutation For as for that that she the Church