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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63246	The speech of Charles Trinder, recorder of Gloucester at his entrance upon that office, January the 8th, 1687/8.	Trinder, Charles.	1688 (1688)	Wing T2283; ESTC R37902	12,670	19

Subjects Liberty and Property received Confirmation from the glorious Ancestors of our present Reigning Monarch What Spot of Ground is there thrô the whole circumference of the Earth where the Subject lives so free so plentiful and so secure from any sort of Oppression as in this our truly fortunate Island What man so low as not offending the Laws to need fear his most potent Neighbour Again What Nobleman so Great as to dare either by force or treachery to attempt either upon the Royal Authority or Publick Peace Lastly What Throne so fix'd and unmoveable as Ours Since the Royal Prerogatives are so inalienable from the Crown that even the most solemn Acts of our Kings when found inconsistent with their personal safety and Government and the good and safety of their Subjects are of no manner of force to restrain the exercise of their Regal Power This appears by the King's Declaration in the 15th of Edward 3d Printed with the Statutes and by many other instances which might be produced After such Foundations laid after such regular and well-polish'd Architecture in the whole Frame of this our happy Government when moreover our Kings have at their Call the most August Senate in the World whose Duty it is to strengthen the Hands of the Soveraign by their Counsels and the Kingdom 's Treasure as Emergencies arise How comes it to pass that we have seen and felt effects not only far short but even contrary to such glorious Causes to pass by our ceasing now for a long time to advance our Nations Glory by Acquisitions abroad tho' we have not wanted Princes of great Abilities and Inclinations that way How comes it to pass that we have with much difficulty conserved our own from Forreign Encroachments Nay lastly how has it come to pass that we have suffered such fatal Convulsions at home among our selves by which the whole Frame of our Government hath been shaken in pieces nothing to be seen but Horrour and Confusion nothing to be expected but utter Ruine and Destruction To answer these important Queries thô private Malice Pride Lust and Avarice be the immediate incentives of all who are Authors or Fomenters of all Civil Dissension yet manifest it is that this so great decay from the Ancient vigour of our Government and the many Difficulties in which it is of late so deeply involved have arisen principally if not purely from the Cause of Religion 'T was a memorable saying that of my late Lord Chancellour Clarendon to the two Houses of Parliament soon after his late Majesty's happy Restauration It is said he a mournful subject and that which has cost the King many a Sigh many a sad Hour to consider that that very thing which was appointed by God as a Cement of Affection betwixt Strangers and Enemies Religion should now become the fiercest Incentive to Strife between the dearest Friends and nearest Relations This Consideration carries me back to examine from what time and from what cause this unhappy effect of Religion had its first rise For were it indeed to be found in the Root or Essence of Christianity it self I should conceive the Reception of such a Religion into the World and it s so long continuance amidst so many Nations to be a greater Miracle than any that was ever wrought for its Birth or Propagation But I take the fact to be far otherwise For upon the first Planting of Christianity the Apostles inspired with the Holy Ghost all taught one and the same Truths which their Disciples held themselves obliged to believe and for ever keep inviolate and intire as proceeding all from one and the same eternal Verity and when afterwards any difference arose concerning what was so taught or what not The general practice of Christians was to submit to the determination of their Pastors either Single or in a Provincial National or General Council as the exigency of the matter required and the circumstances of the time and place allowed Which left no room for pertinacy in Dissention at least not any possibility of disturbing the publique Peace And by this means Christianity remained in this Kingdom unshaken from its first entry until about the 24th year of K. Henry the 8th when that unhappy Prince not finding from his long and chargeable Addresses to Rome a passage to the Enjoyment of a second Wife the first then living breaks that Power he was not able to bend and levels whatever opposes to his unbridled Appetite and maugre Magna Charta which in the first place grants that the Church of England be free and all her Rights and Liberties inviolable the Treasures and Revenues of the Church nay it s very Foundations and Lands are no longer spared than that King's Profusions needed not fresh Supplies To this end by an Act in the 26 of his Reign the King is declared Head of the Church of England in Spirituals and that under the Penalty of High Treason to deny it But this Sounding Monstrous Novel many of the most eminent for Learning and Piety who could not believe what they had never before heard nor pretend to believe what really they did not lost their Lives and Fortunes and that with all the outward marks of Infamy The Fence being thus broken down whereby Unity had been thus long preserved no wonder if way was soon made for multiplying of Opinions For People being once persuaded they had been taught one untruth and that in a point of so great importance as the Headship of the Church in Spirituals how could they forbear to doubt whether they were not imposed upon and taught Untruths in many others also since both the one and the other depended on the same Authority And to what other Oracle could they then possibly resort for the solution of their Doubts but either to the mere Letter of the Scriptures on all hands admitted to be God's Word or else every man to his own Interpretation for himself Since if the Church it self had been so foully deceived therein and therefore forsaken by them certainly no other could pretend Authority to deliver the true Sence so as to oblige others to the belief of it But the King himself having lookt upon that Power as intolerable which had been ever before Superiour to him in Spirituals could now less brook any control or contradiction from His own Subjects over whose Souls and Consciences He assumed a more absolute Dominion than ever any Pope had done before or any King of England over their Bodies or Estates By this absolute Spiritual Power he thought to put a stop to that great difference of Opinions which multiplied every day and backing the said Spiritual Power with Authority of Parliaments which he had always at his beck and ready for his turn he began first to think of some means of Reducing Dissenters by Acts of Vniformity and then to make Tests much like to our Modern ones as to the meekness of their Stile thô a little point-blank as to