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A48813	An answer to the Bishop of Oxford's reasons for abrogating the test impos'd on all members of Parliament anno 1678, Octob. 30 in these words, I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testifie, and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at, or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation of adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the Dais, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous / by a person of quality.	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1688 (1688)	Wing L2673; ESTC R977	35,814	60

much restored as among the Jews and enforced with further Positive and Ceremonial Sharpness of Laws the Rigors on Offenders were so great as the Bishop has Recounted But yet the mercy of the Gospel and of Christian Religion is such that although in Governments able and equal for it there ought to be no abatement of Severity against the Sin it self yet there is by Christ a Relaxation as to Persons Lives where the most guilty Circumstances of Presumption Obstinacy Danger of bad Example do not inflame the Account of the Evil All means of Conversion and Reformation being first used which is a great justification of the lawfulness and necessity of the Test in a Protestant Government Nevertheless the generality of the Sin hath been at no time too big for Divine Vengeance but that it hath appeared from Heaven upon Idolatrous Powers and Nations when he saw good And the time is approaching when a better State of the renewed World growing on will by degrees but with signal Vials powred out upon the whole Race of Idolaters and their Idolatries make way for the perfection of that Renovation and such a thing as Idolatry will not in one single example be endured For Satan that old Serpent that hath deceiv'd the Nations into it so long will be seal'd up into his own Abyss at the same time But this hath been by way of Digression It is time to return now to the just Remarks that are to be made upon the Bishop's Discourse upon Idolatry so contriv'd as to lead the Unthinking yea the not closely observant Reader thorough a Variety of Matter far off from suspecting the Roman Worship of Idolatries where yet Scripture-Prophesie hath settled it upon its own Base in that Land that is Spiritually called Shinar or Mystical Babylon His Discourse indeed is blended sometimes with better that it may convey more Artificially the intollerably bad sometimes with things doubtful and uncertain that the notoriously False may hope to skulk among them I cannot according to the brevity I have resolv'd retail to the Reader so ambagious or tedious an Account of Idolatry There are two things among his own Notions that if he had taken his Measures by they would have steerd him much better viz. First The observation of the Great Care God took by all his Dealings with his People Descendants from Abraham to secure them by the Mosaick Mediatorship in the acknowledgment of the One God Creator of Heaven and Earth the Universal and most Natural Standard against Idolatry together with those particular assurances of himself to them by his Covenant with Abraham by bringing them out of the Land of Egypt speaking to them out of the Cloud and Fire on Mount Sinai by his filling the Tabernacle with his Glory which is especially to be remark'd both in Moses's Tabernacle and Solomon's Temple as being the true Reason of the Worship toward the Holy of Holies And Secondly the observation of the Sabbath as a peculiar Commemoration of the Creation as also of the further Manifestation of the same true God Creator of Heaven and Earth who was so particularly the God of Abraham's Posterity Had these two Observations together with the Types which the Episcopal Author with Dr. Spencer and other Learned men not without Reason make Fences between Israel and the Idolatrous Nations and their Idolatries or as the Apostle calls it Partition-Wall these would have led to the One Mediator Jesus Christ Who is that very Propitiation and Mercy-Seat of which that in the Holy of Holies was but the Type and for which Type sake the Shecinah or Glory once came and sate in its filling the Temple as between the Cherubims or Attendant Angels Simbolycally Represented in an Adoring Posture stooping down and prying upon the Mercy-Seat as that Type of Christ as the Apostle Peter alludes 1 Pet. 1.12 Worshipping but the Spirits whom they resemble would have abhor'd to be Worshipped As he most injuriously to Truth would bear his Readers in hand if they would be deceived by him Now as Redemption parallell's Creation so the One Mediator the One God as our Lord himself teacheth This is Life Eternal to know Thee the onely true God and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ and so the Apostle tells us There are Gods many and Lords many in the World Counterfeits of the One God and One Mediator As the Heathenish Gods and Baalim or Daimons who were esteem'd a middle Region of Gods or Mediators But to us saith he There is but One God the Father of Whom are all things and we in or for or unto him and One Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him So to Timothy There is One God and One Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus which one God is now known to us as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which Title drinks up as the Antitype doth the Type of the former Titles of the God of Abraham c. of the God that brought from Egypt that sits between the Cherubins that Title indeed of Creator Lord of Heaven and Earth is not in the least ececlips'd but shines together upon and with and in the Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ. And as a Testimony and standing Plea of all this the Sabbath of Creation is remov'd from the Seventh into an Union with the First Day the Sabbath of Redemption or Lord's Day Thus there is as the Apostle John speaks the true God and eternal Life in the very mention of which as foreseeing the great Antichristian Idolatry coming upon the Christian World in other Mediators the same thing with other Gods he makes the Conclusion and Farewel of his Epistle little Children keep your selves from Idols and seal's it with a passionate Amen Now this One God and this one Mediator we are to worship and only to know and only to serv all introducing other Mediators either of Man or of other Creatures as in honour to God to worship Him or Jesus Christ by them join'd with some Ceremonies of a Service as Kneeling Bowing Incensing Invoking c. is Idolatrous And now to draw the whole matter of Idolatry to a conclusion I confess it seems necessary that whoever takes the Test being as the Bishop truly observes of the Alloy of an Oath it is necessary he should take it in Judgment as well as in Righteousness and in Truth That any one may so do it he must carry about him a Gauge or certain Notion of Idolatry and some general knowledge of the Usages of Rome as to the Invocation of the Virgin of Saints the adoration of them in their Images with the Sacrifice of the Mass which by a little enquiry will be easily known if it can be at all unknown to any Persons who can be suppos'd to have possible obligation to take the Test For the Roman Church does not hide its Sin but carries the Title on its Forehead the Title its Idolatrous Fornications and its

AN ANSWER TO THE Bishop of OXFORD's Reasons FOR ABROGATING THE TEST Impos'd on All Members of Parliament Anno 1678. Octob. 30. In these Words I A. B. do solemnly and sincerely in the Presence of God profess testifie and declare That I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any Transubstantiation of the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at or after the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever And that the Invocation or Adoration of the Uirgin Mary or any other Saint and the Sacrifice of the Mass as they are now used in the Church of Rome are Superstitious and Idolatrous By a Person of Quality London Printed in the Year 1688. To the Kingdom in General HIS Majesty having with a Grace exemplary not onely to all his Subjects of this Naiion but to all Christian Princes and States however they may be themselves of the Roman Persuasion design'd it as the avowed Glory and Stability of his Reign to settle such a Liberty that there may be free discourses and debates concerning the Truths of Christian Religion and the Dissents of Christians in them as from the Pulpit so proportionably from the Press as therefore the Ministers and Fautors of that Church which would be known by the Name of Catholick have always and will be while they are always active with their Pens to the utmost in their Sphaer And as we see they have Publick Freedom so is it not to be doubted of the Princely so Vniversal Grace but that he intends a Freedom on the other side to answer that there may be no Inequality in holding the Beam but that it may alike incline to all in this matter specially now that he is making Credence of those his Royal Favours to all His Protestant Subjects who cannot but be deeply concern'd at such a Time as this because of the great Advantages the Interests of the Counter-Scale hope for from a Sovereign of their own Sentiments But in no case is this Liberty more desirable than when an Amphibious-Ambidextrous Bishop who assumes like that Angel of the Revelation to set one Foot on the Sea and the other on the Earth One Foot on the Protestant Church which he calls one as if his self were of it and the other on the Roman In favour of which he so openly appeareth to speak the most honourably of him to conciliate toward it at lest a Cassandrian Temperament which as it will never be yielded by the Protestant so would it not be accepted if it were offer'd by the Papist For he hath published with what intentions is best known to God and his own Conscience a palliation of the most irreconciliable Points of the Popish Religion Transubstantiation the Sacrifice of the Mass the Invocation and Adoration of the Virgin Mary swoln to such a Monstrosity in that Religion together with other Saints and all with Images too Points wherein the Wisedom of the Nation thought fit to fix the TEST as the security of Protestancy and that of Images of so great Infamy in Sacred Writ and all these with a Multitude of Rampant Words now rather than a Multitude of such Words should not be answered or a man of lips be justified even the very Stones would speak Such Lies and Sophistry will not suffer Men to hold their peace and while he seems rather to mock than argue should not every one endeavour to make him ashamed For certainly his ways of Discourse are like those of the Whorish Woman in the Proverbs so moveable one cannot know them he comes out in this Time that he esteems a Twilight and with a prostituted Subtilty he treats of Sacred things he is loud and stubborn his feet abide not in the House of his own Church as he his self styles it but now he is in the Streets of the Strange Religion and layeth wait in every Corner with a New sort of Ecclesiastical Polity or in a New Edition and his great Temptation is I have saith ●e● Peace-Offerings with me that carry at the same Time Reconciliableness to Rome and likewise a Blessing himself in a design'd Indulgence to his own Genius and caressing himself in the thoughts of his comfortable Magdalen Importances and though at a high Water of Papacy he would be burnt for a Heretick if he did not speak more out which without doubt he is prepar'd to do on congruous Occasions yet so much at this seeming Return of the Water is enough to beatifie and then Canonize him in that present Kalender where I doubt not he stands markt with a Red Letter and it may be a just Reason to all sincere Protestants to spue him out of their Mouths The observation of his double dealing and appearing more like the Atheist than the Learned and Ingenuous though mispersuaded Papist sowetimes transports my Style beyond its own Intention and Resolution when I first essaid to consider onely the rational part of Discourse in those matters and I am much the bolder because I hear from all his Book hath much disserv'd His Majesties Gratious Purpose and created in all minds a Nausaea specially observing his odd Aspersions on so eminent a Person as Dr. St. who in the thoughts of all the World is incomparably and beyond all possibility of being nam'd together ten thousand times more the Apostolick Bishop If I have offered too largely to a just Indignation here I having the Treatise it self mostly applied my self to the rational part and minded chiefly to possess the Reader with the true sense of things I have therefore wav'd the persuit of his History of Transubstantiation in the several Stages of it leaving it to more learned Persons who I doubt not may observe in their usual walks and dail-y paths through the whole course of Ecclesiastick Times Many of his Erratick motions but however the main point of truth or falshood on that Head or Article rests in this little room whether it is possible to believe such sublime spirituality as our Lord alway breath'd so little of kin to sense to matter to flesh should in his holy dying Institution forsake him so that he should intend to engage his Blessed Body that was so suddenly to become a Spiritual Glorious Body and to Asscend far above all Heavens to so inglorious insipid inefficacious a desscent as onely to dispossess a small Roll os Bread or Wafer of its whole Substance and as by a trick to leave its Accidents still intire to fool and baffle all the sense and reason in the World and yet to so little effect as to suffer the Bodies and the Souls too of the greatest number of the Eaters to be without any Evidences of good as notorious and certain as the miracle is supposed to be stupendous whoever can believe this need not go to visit the dark and too oft impure Cells where so strange a Docrine was conceiv'd and foster'd he hath a Bulimy of Faith without more ado of