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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46955	Julian's arts to undermine and extirpate Christianity together with answers to Constantius the Apostate, and Jovian / by Samuel Johnson.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.; Constantius II, Emperor of Rome, 317-361.; Jovian, Emperor of Rome, ca. 331-364.	1689 (1689)	Wing J832; ESTC R16198	97,430	242

fit to govern but a Papist who is more dangerous and destructive to a Protestant Kingdom than both of them and that by his own Fault too may not be prevented In a Word a manifest Revelation to shew how a publick Enemy as every Person who is reconciled to the Church of Rome is in the Eye of the Law can possibly be the Fountain of Justice and Mercy which is the true Notion of an English King. These things do stand more in need of a manifest Revelation to clear them up than a Bill of Exclusion does which is as manifestly lawful as that the King and Parliament have power to make a just and necessary Law. Besides where was the Wisdom of our Author or his Friends in demanding a Revelation from God for a necessary Alteration of the Succession when they themselves cannot pretend to one for the Establishment of it Since it is an undeniable Maxime both in Law and Reason that Things are dissolved as they be contracted and an Obligation only by Word of Mouth needs not Hand and Seal to discharge it For by these unreasonable Demands which are contrary to the known Laws of the Kingdom they put Men upon Enquiries nice and unprofitable As how and for what cause the Monarchy of England came to be Hereditary And whether a Popish Prince does not perfectly overthrow that excellent Constitution and disinherit himself This is laid down for a known and acknowledged Truth in the Reasons of the House of Commons 14 Elizab. against Mary Queen of Scots Queen Elizabeth was contented to disable the Queen of Scots as a Person unworthy of any Hope or Title Preheminence or Dignity within this her Land and the Law so to run that if any should enterprise to deliver her out of Prison after her Disablement either in her Majesty's Life or after the same to be convicted immediatly of High-Treason and her self assenting thereunto to be likewise adjudged as a Traytor in Law. This the Commons in their large Answer represent both as needless and as insufficient Whereas it is said that it standeth to very good purpose to proceed only in disabling of the Scotish Queen for any Claim or Title to the Crown we take it by your Majesty's favour that such an especial disabling of the Scotish Queen is in effect a special Confirmation of a Right that she should have had Quia privatio praesupponit habitum And further we do take it for a known Truth that by the Laws and Statutes of this Land now in force she is already disabled and therefore it is to small purpose rem actam agere And now I have done with our Author's Arguments as they are his for as they are Scotch or Newmarket Positions I have nothing to say to them Only it would be worth our Author's Pains and he may get the Addressing Part of the University to help him to reconcile this Scotch Act which makes such a brave shew in his Preface with the History of Succession in Scotland lest while he is so industrious to serve the Interest of a Popish Successor he be found overthrowing the Titles of all the Kings of Scotland for these three hundred Years not excepting his present Majesty's Title to that Kingdom no nor the Expectations of that very Person to whom he is so much devoted The History in short is this Robert Stuart the hundredth King of Scotland and first of the Family of the Stuarts had a Concubine named Elizabeth More the Daughter of Sir Adam More by whom he had three Sons and two Daughters and himself marrying Eufemia the Daughter of the Earl of Ross took care to marry Elizabeth More to one Giffard a Noble-Man in the County of Louthien By Eufemia he had Issue Walter and David Earls of Athol and Strathern and Eufemia who was afterwards married to James Duglass Son to the Earl of that Name The Queen Eufemia dying and Giffard the Husband of Elizabeth More dying much about the same time the King marries Elizabeth More his former Concubine and presently ennobles the Sons which he had by her creating John Earl of Carrike Robert Earl of Menteith and Alexander Earl of Bucquhane Nor was he content with doing so much for them but he also obtained from a Parliament at Scone that the Children which he had by Eufemia being past by these should come to the Crown in their Course No Man will offer to say that the Children of Elizabeth More were made inheritable by that After-Marriage for besides the apparent Insufficiency of it for that purpose what need was there then of obtaining an Act of Parliament to make them so and to set by the Children of Eufemia Now if no Law or Act of Parliament made or to be made can alter or divert the Right of Succession according to the known Degrees of Proximity in Blood what then becomes of the Scone Act But if an Act made at Scone can set aside three Persons at once with all their numerous Descendents for no Fault nor Forfeiture at all why might not an Act made at Westminster have done as much for one single Person alone especially when that Westminster Act would have been in some respects as favourable as an Act of Grace If our Author can tell why he shall be a greater Oracle to me than the great Apollo There is nothing betwixt this and the End of the Preface worth answering which has not already been answered unless it be that Passage where he withdraws his general Approbation of what I had written against Popery as rashly given because I seem to deny that the Church of Rome is a true Church of Christ I desire our Author to make but one Business of it and at the same time to withdraw his hearty Subscription to the Homilies which do more than seem to deny it especially in the second part of the Homily for Whit-Sunday for that whole Sermon is spent in shewing first what the true Church of Christ is and then in conferring the Church of Rome therewith to discern how well they agree together and lastly in concluding that because the Church of Rome is not the true Church of Christ and the Bishops of Rome and their Adherents are not in the Church therefore they have not the Holy-Ghost tho they have for a long time made a sore Challenge thereunto but by their Practices make it plain to all the World that they have the Spirit of the Devil It affirms and which is more proves That the Church of Rome is not a true Church nor has been these nine hundred Years and odd So that our Author must go a great way back to seek his true Church of England in his true Church of Rome I wonder in my Heart what those Gentlemen mean who pretend to be the only Sons of the Church of England and yet make nothing of blowing up whole Homilies at once and are continually disgracing all the Protestant Principles of our glorious