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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28189	The Jacobites Catechism that is to say, an instruction to be learned of every person who either desires or expects to be confirmed by the late Bishop of Ely / by Benjamin Bird ...	Bird, Benjamin.	1691 (1691)	Wing B2949; ESTC R14704	4,733	12

THE JACOBITES CATECHISM That is to say An INSTRUCTION to be learned of every Person who either desires or expects to be confirmed by the Late Bishop of ELY By Benjamin Bird Rector of Wooton fits Payn near Lyme Regis in the County of Dorset Printed at London and Re-printed at Edinburgh in the Year 1691. TO THE BOOKSELLER SIR YOV may see by the enclosed that the Jacobite Catechism hath left nothing by the Obstruction it met with the Author had no design to Burlesque the Church Catechism nor to reflect upon the Creed Lords Prayer or Sacraments for those are all Sacred things but he was willing it should look something like a Catechism He hath now omitted their Creed and their Prayer till he better understands what they believe and when they Pray Their Sacraments also are left out because some of them have paid dear for drinking Healths to K. James this last Assizes SIR I am King Williams Loyal Subject and your Real Friend Philirenes Junior Wotton 29. August 1691. ADVERTISEMENT THere will speedily be published the Williamites Catechism written by the Author of this Catechism THE JACOBITES CATECHISM Quest WHat is your Name Answ JACOBITE Quest Who gave you that name Answ The WILLIAMITES of this Nation in the day when I declared my self a favourer of Popery and promoter of Arbitrary Government Quest Did they promise any thing further for you to make you keep up your Name Answ Yes Quest Pray tell me what it was Answ They did promise three things 1. That as my Forefathers had done so I should follow their steps in siding with French Dragoons and Irish Cut-throats against my native Countrey 2 That I should renounce the English Laws and Liberties of the subject 3. That I should come very short of that Love I bear to the Reformed Religion and my Protestant Brethren Quest Dost thou think thou art any wayes obliged to Act what they promised in thy Name Answ Yes verily and by Romes help so I will and I heartily thank our Earthly Father Lewis Le Grand that he has taken us into his protection and I question not but he will be as kind to us as he has been to the Hugonots of his own Countrey Quest But your Principles of Government both in Church and State are not the same which he has taught them there Answ Indeed we are not yet so absolutely refined in neither as 't is there but we have endeavoured to instil them into the People of our Nation for above these 30. Years Quest What principles have you taught them concerning the State Answ We have taught them that as there is but one God in Heaven so there ought to be but one Government one Earth and that 's Monarchical both in Church and State for as 't is said by me Kings Reign so in the Church Bishops ought to govern and those two are so twisted one in the other that as 't is our Maxime No Bishop no King so they who are Enemies to Monarchy and Episcopacy are Enemies to all Government both in the Church and State for as there can be no State without Kings so there can be no Church without Bishops and therefore I blame the New Williamite Church of England for composing a Form of Prayer for all the Reformed Churches seing we ne're own'd them for true Churches tho' we own the Church of Rome for a true Church Quest What do these Principles lead you to follow Answ They lead us to follow and acknowledge Three Things 1. That our gracious Monarch K. James is our only King de Jure 2. That his suppos'd Son the Welch Prince will in due time redeem us and all of our Loyal Principles from our present Bondage to a Prince of the Reformed Religion 3. That none are truely Loyal who are not of our Club and Societies Quest Is there no Laws or Rule that you are to obey for your better direction in practising what you shall learn Answ Yes there are two particular Orders which we should Obey Quest Which be they Answ 1. Render to Caesar the things which are Cafars And 2 unto God the things which are Gods What do they chiefly teach you Answ Two things Quest Which be they Answ 1. We are taught what we are to render to our King 2. What we owe towards God Quest What is it you are to render to your King Answ We are to own him for a Caesar and that he may govern Despotically and is not tyed up to the Laws of the Land to which he has sworn but that he may impose Taxes c. without consent of Parliaments and the People are bound in Conscience on pain of Eternal Damnation to obey for we are not to enquire our Duty to our King out of the known Laws of the Land but from the Holy Scriptures as they are expounded by these Ancient Fathers of the Church Sibthorp and Manwaring c. that gape after Court preferment who would fain Enslave the Subject to advance themselves Quest What have you been taught that you owe to God Answ To render to God the things that are Gods as are the Ceremonies of our Church which are in a manner as holy as the Censors of Old and we are not to part with the least of them to gratify our weak Brethren who are so Sacrilegious as to endeavour to Rob the Church of the White Robe the Wife of the Wedding Ring the Infant of the Invisible Bag of Christianity which he wears in his Forehead and the devout Christian of his genuflection at the high Altar Quest My good Child know that thou art not able to do all this of thy self without calling in Forraign Aid and Assistance Therefore let me hear what Endeavours thou wilst use to thy power for effecting it Answ 1. I will endeavour it three ways 1. I will as we have from the beginning of the Reformation labour to foment the differences amongst all Protestants whatsoever that I may once more blow those Coals to a Flame as may consume them and their Church to Ashes so as we may once again come to practise those things which I have now learned 2. I will endeavour to keep the wounds of the Church open and Bleeding and excite the most Furious of both parties and villifie moderate Men and Men of healing Spirits to make them be looked on as Lukewarm Laodiceans and only fit to be spewed out of the mouths of both Parties whilst we cry aha so we wou'd have it 3. I will as often as I can possible keep up a correspondence with Papists and the French Court as we have hitherto done by inviting the French last year and by our continual advertising them of the State of the Kingdom and what Ships are going out or coming in that the immortal Lewis may be in the better Capacity to help us for at present our Cause is so sunk and that within these six months I have seen the melting down of five of our