depose the King or to dispose of his Kingdoms his present Majesty Charles the II. being the 26th that successively in the right Line from the Conquerour have reign'd absolute Kings of England c. Now I will shew you by way of Application who have fallen off from the Faith under the New Testament and that plainly and particularly in what points and then you may judge whether the like Curse as was so dreadfully denounced against Israel may not be also hanging over their heads and pointing at their doors being palpably guilty of the lille Charge The Church of Rome Canonizing as de fide a new Doctrine contrary to the Catholick Faith for the first five or six hundred years after Christ is become a false Church or the Church of Antichrist which is no part of the true Church of Christ but an Imposthume or a bad humour in the body and no part of the body I mean the true Spiritual and Mystical Body of Christ And as the ten Tribes of Israel fell off from the Worship of God and ador'd the Golden Calfs made by Jeroboam and turn'd Bethel the House of God into Bethaven a House of Iniquity so have Papists turn'd the Roman Church which was once a pure flourishing Church to a corrupt Den of Thieves And yet it is granted by judicious Protestants that some may possibly be saved though with great hazard that are in Communion with her and groan under the lewd and Antichristian Doctrines and Practices impos'd by her as necessary to Salvation which overthrow the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith although held by themselves and are contrary point-blank to the Catholick Faith once delivered to the Saints particularly these following 1. The Church of Rome hold and affirm the Pope to be Universal and Supreme Head of the Catholick Church Caput totius Ecclesiae Militantis Universal Father of the Church the only Dispenser of Apostolick Benedictions thus dignified he Lords it over all the Clergy upon Earth Our Creed composed by the Apostles teacheth us to believe first in God the Father c. and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord and the Nicene Creed explains it I believe in one God c. and in one Lord Jesus Christ The Scripture explains this plainly in the 4th of Eph. 15. Speaking the truth in love grow up into him in all things which is the Head even Christ By which it appears we have no Universal Head for the Church Militant but our Lord Jesus Christ 2. The Church of Rome is held by them to be the Catholick Church contrary to our Belief in our Creed which saith I believe in the holy Catholick Church and explain'd in the Nicene Creed I believe in one Catholick and Apostolick Church All the Elect of God that ever have been now are or ever shall be in the world comprehending all particular Churches which were before the Roman Church and were in the same time that she flourished in other Provinces in Asia and Europe and now are separated from her making up one Catholick Church the Mystical Body of Christ 3. The Doctrine of the Popes Infallibility that he cannot Err and that his Authority confirm'd by Councils is greater and more certain than the Scriptures doth fly in the face of all the Foundation of our Faith for we take as the holy Catholick Church hath ever done the holy Scriptures for the only certain Rule of our Faith and Practice from which we own no higher Authority to appeal unto no though an Angel did preach things contrary to the Scriptures they are to us an Anathema he the Pope can dispence they say against Paul and Peter that is controul and wrest the sense of the Scriptures written by Paul and Peter yea against the Old and New Testament he can plenitudine potestatis as much as God This Doctrine you will find often boasted of in their Canons and Decretals 4. The Church of Rome doth plainly and point-blank oppose and overthrow the Catholick Faith concerning the Remission of sins The Apostles in the Creed as all the New Testament most amply and largely explaineth teach us to believe the forgiveness of sins and the Roman Church doth set it up on quite other terms by proposing that gift I mean the forgiveness of sins to be sold by the Pope and his Priests if any will be so fondly blind as to buy in the vile Market of Indulgences so in a word the Catholick Faith is to believe the forgiveness of sins and the Doctrine of Popery is to sell and buy it 5. The Popish Faction overthrow and utterly confound by their new Doctrine and Practice the Faith and Practice of the Catholick Church in Prayer Our Saviour Christ himself taught us to pray after this manner c. directing our Petitions to God the Father by the help of the Holy Ghost in the Name and by the Mediation of God the Son so are all Prayers made in the Old and New Testament But the Papists call upon Saints and Angels and because they believe it for it is a prevailing Argument with them that the Kingdom of Heaven is divided into two parts the Kingdom of Mercy to the blessed Virgin c. but the Kingdom of Justice to Christ they pray more for mercy unto Mary than unto God through Christ 6. They contradict and oppose the Christian Faith in the first six hundred years by the most unreasonable Point to be impos'd for matter of belief as ever any man can hear of Transubstantiation come out of the Council of Lateran under Pope Innocentius the III. He who contended with John King of England They believe that the Bread and the Wine in the Lords Supper after Consecration is substantially and materially changed contrary to our Natural Sense Seeing Tasting and Feeling and we believe it that they are Signs and Symbols of a Spiritual Food and refection which our Souls receive from Christs Body and Blood which was given for us These things being considered every Christian man will say that it was piously done of all the Reformers Luther in Germany Jerome in Prague Valdus in France Wickliffe Bilney and Tindal in England to separate from this Apostate Church lest they should be partakers of her sins and afterwards receive of her Plagues Rev. 18. 4. Hos 4. 15. 1 Cor. 10. 14. whose judgment now of a long time lingreth not and her damnation slumbereth not Rev. 13. Let him that understandeth count the number of the Beast There 's a set time appointed for his Judgment mention'd in 2 Thes 2. 7. until he be taken out of the way as it is in the Text until he comes Let any serious unbyass'd spirited man weigh these Points and Scriptures before-recited and he will soon resolve himself how tottering the See of Rome is and how miserable the honour of the Ignatian Tribe is who brag if they had not been Rome had not been the Angel had long since said It is fallen it is fallen Use 1.
Now the Use that every true Protestant is to make of this is to render unto God his unfeigned thanks for our most Religious King and Church of England who vow and assert and protest to stick to the true Christian Faith once delivered to the Saints which Faith hath been receiv'd in this Island of Britain 1640. and upwards i. e. ever since the latter years of Tiberius his Reign who died in the 27th year of Christ as Baronius reckons it Joseph of Arimathea and Simon Zelotes were the first Planters here and some say that Paul preached here also King Lucius in the year of Christ 169. was baptized and setled three Primates and Metropolitans one in London another in York and the third in Caerlion in Monmouthshire and ever since we have had successively Archbishops and Bishops in our Church of England whereupon this Church became to be call'd of some Anglicana filia Primogenita Ecclesie Catholica The Reform'd Christian Professors of Christs Faith were call'd Protestants first in Germany when the Doctrine of Christ by the industry of Melancthon Luther and Zuinglius prevail'd so with the Princes and Dukes there that they have unanimously agreed and protested to stick to the Reformation against superstitious Popery to their Lives and Fortunes And this Protestant Religion much upon the same time or shortly after was profess'd and established in England by King Edward the Sixth of blessed memory revived by Queen Elizabeth continued by King James and King Charles the First all of blessed memory and now maintained and defended by our most gracious Soveraign Charles the Second whom we heartily are bound to pray for may he go on and prosper and may his Royal Heart be still in Gods good hand for it to dispose it his own good way May his Royal Person both at his going out and at his coming in be now and evermore as safe Body and Soul as all the holy Angels can make him safe from all pernicious Counsels and from Counsels of falshood and wrong Use 2. To strengthen and establish us in this Religion yea though it be to the hazard and loss of Properties and Liberties Fortunes and Life it self Mat. Fear not him that kills the body but rather fear him that can destroy both body and soul in hell put on your Spiritual Armour fight the good fight of Faith and finish the good Religious course that ye have begun Consider your Case and Quarrel you contend for the Testimony of Jesus Christ Rev. 12. 17. Run I say therefore the Race with patience looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of your Faith Did Scipio suffer Death for vindicating the City and Aristides Banishment for his love to Equity and was Demosthenes destroy'd for his care of his Country and shall we sink under the weight of some light afflictions which can endure but a moment for so great a Case 3. And lastly because our Enemies are watchful to take advantage and rejoyce at our miscarriages they are like Ravens and Vultures gathering to and picking at our infirmities and failings Laetetur certe priamus priamoque Creati Therefore ought we to be very cautious in all our ways and circumspect in all our actions Be wise as Serpents and harmless as Doves It is excellently observ'd of Plutarch that such living Creatures as have strong and firm Bodies and Stomacks can devour and digest Serpents and Frogs let us then quitting our selves like men of wholesome Minds strong Faith sound Principles and blameless Practises slight and digest with patience the Scandals and false Accusations of the Serpents Seed the Evil Spirits proceeding out of the Mouth of the Dragon Let us bless them that curse us and pray for them that spightfully use us And to conclude the whole matter of what hath been said as you would escape the imminent danger of the dreadful Curse of God with pernicious Confusions in this and the World to come be watchful and active against the prevailing of Popery which with the utmost rage of Persecution is unavoidably destructive to Prince and Properties Religion and Laws Liberties and Countries Families and Lives yea Souls too if we subscribe to it And as we tender the love and peace of God the integrity of the true Christian Faith profess'd publickly as once delivered to the Saints and the continuance of Pious Government by just Laws and have a due regard for the safety of his Majesty and for the strength and preservation of the Kingdom from Forreign Innovations let us without wavering stick to the Protestant Religion in which we have been bred and born and God out of his abundant Grace grant we may be able with courage and comfort in the Holy Ghost to die in the same in which if we continue through Faith in Christ we shall assuredly find Salvation FINIS Page 15. 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whose hands God delivered them up In the 23. ver it is Ye shall be taken with the hand and in the 11th ver before the Text it is call'd The Hand of the Slayer and in the 9th and 10th verses it is set forth with much fierceness A Sword a Sword is sharpned and also furbished it is furbished to make a sore slaughter by this Sword sharpned and furbished being an evident sign of Gods Wrath is signified that he was incens'd to a very great height of fierceness against them and that appears by the effects and influence it had upon them in the 7th ver Every heart shall melt and all hands shall be feeble and every spirit shall be faint and all knees shall be weak as water Alas alas when the point of Gods Sword is set against the Gates what hearts can endure or hands be strong to deal with it or in any way be able to resist it Thus we see what 's the sad and dreadful cause of mens Confusions even Gods severe anger so highly provok'd with repeated contempts and hardness of heart against his Messengers and Messages sent so sedulously to instruct them and by the Instrumental Cause of this peoples calamity the King of Babylon we also see that it often comes to pass through the anger of the Lord against his own chosen people he maketh use of and stirreth up against them the hands and hearts of Heathen and prophane people 3. The third thing to be considered in the Text is the Event i. e. the Sentence of Destruction denounced wherein we must observe these particulars 1. The Authority of it in ver 20. Thus saith the Lord. What I say and denounce against this Prince I have Gods Warrant for it saith the Prophet and that 's the reason why he omits all terms of honour to this Prince and I think he might have inlarg'd thus and say I know the Commandment of God in the Law concerning Princes Ex. 22. 8. Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the Rulers of thy people for by God Kings do reign and Princes do decree Justice And that Solomon had taught saying Curse not the King no not in thy thought for his unsearchable heart is in the hand of the Lord. And Kings are the Lords Anointed ordain'd for our Nursing Fathers and therefore not to be touch'd with any violence But I am commanded by the Hand of God upon me and the Inspiration of his Spirit within me Thus saith the Lord as Saul told Samuel and Elijah told Ahab before this time Kings of Israel so I by the Word of the Lord or the Lord by me and my mouth prophesieth and saith thus against this Prince and People 2. The Charge in this Sentence is observable Thou prophane wicked You shall see these words explain'd in Jer. 52. 1 2 3. where Zedekiah is said to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that Jehoiakin had done and Jehoiakin's Charge you will find in Jer. 22. 17. he was tax'd for Idolatry and shedding of Innocent blood by offering up Children unto Moloch for oppression and violence covetousness and prophaning holy things And this was not spoken of him alone but of all the people and of the former Ages since the revolt of Rehoboam and Jeroboam who made Israel to sin in the 4th Chap. of Ezek. 4 5. ver the Prophet was to bear the iniquity of the people for 390 days representing all the years a day for a year down from Jeroboam which time is computed by the Learned to be 390 years to the Captivity under Zedekiah 3. The Parties charged Prince and People the Prince was Zedekiah whose name had been Mattaniah as is shew'd before who now rebels against the King of Babylon that had shew'd kindness and made him King instead of Jehoiakin the People are also concern'd here for when it is said Remove the Diadem and take away the Crown by the Diadem and Crown is meant the Government and Kingdom the whole Nation the Cidarin and Corona are Royal Ornaments and by the signs Synechdochically is meant the things signified amove tolle i. e. Prophecy that the King and People shall be removed and carried captive into Babylon Haec non haec this shall not be the same i. e. this shall remain no more such a glorious Nation 4. The Confusion or Destruction denounced is to be considered which is set forth in several expressions in the Text as first Exalt him that is low that is Jehoiakin who is now low in Captivity at Babylon he shall be exalted which came to pass in the 37th year of his Captivity 2 King 25. 27 28. c. you may read how Evilmerodach King of Babylon lifted up his head and spake kindly unto him and gave him an allowance a daily rate for every day all the days of his life Abase him that is high that is Zedekiah that is high-minded and through the pride of his heart and Gods anger rebelleth against the King of Babylon shall be abased this ungrateful undutiful and disloyal Prince requites the kindness favours and great honours conferr'd upon him by the King of Babylon with Conspiracies Plots and Rebellion 2 Kin. 24. ult therefore abase him cast him off I have rejected him saith the Lord which came to pass you see in 2 Kin. 25. The City was besieged to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah and the City was broken up and all the Men of War fled by night c. and Zedekiah was taken and brought to the King of Babylon to Riblah and he gave Judgment upon him and bound him in Fetters of Brass and slew his Sons before his eyes and put out his own eyes and brought him to Babylon The next words declaring this great Confusion are I will overturn overturn it and it shall be no more that is with repeated Calamities and Judgments will I destroy it with Sword Famine and Pestilence my accustomed and usually sent Judgments I will bring it once twice and the third time to make a full end of it and it shall be no more that is not such a great terrible and glorious people any more This was fulfilled you shall see that Nebuzaradan Captain of the Guard a Servant of the King of Babylon came to Jerusalem and burnt the House of the Lord and the House of the King and all the Houses of Jerusalem and every Great Mans House burnt he with fire and broke the Walls of Jerusalem round about and carried the rest of the people away And although by the Edict of Cyrus they had Laws after the City and the Temple was rebuilt yet all was but slender and unstable as by the History of Nehemiah and Esrah doth appear and since Christ came whom they crucified at Jerusalem by the just Judgment of God upon them they were utterly abolished by Titus Vespasianus and now are become the most distressed and despicable people and Nation in the World 5. The Duration
of this Judgment and Confusion until he comes Here is a comfort promis'd them by the coming of Christ which although that blindness as S. Paul calls it hath happen'd unto them for a time that they could not receive the Messiah when he came yet there 's a time and a promise for their Restoration upon this Promise and other-like Prophecies of Scripture do they to this day depend and look for the coming of the Messiah to deliver them and herein they are more happy than Antichrist under the Gospel for there 's not one syllable of promise made for his restoring to the Truth which he hath forsaken but he is to be consum'd for ever by the Spirit of Gods Mouth and utterly destroy'd by the brightness of his coming 4. The fourth particular observable in the Text is the promise of Christs coming He comes whose right it is and I will give it him Here 's meant no Temporal Prince but the coming of the same that was a long time before spoken of by the Kingly Prophet Thou hast made him little lower than the Angels and hast crowned him with Glory and Honour thou hast made him have Dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet and to the same Prince and persons coming doth Malachy speak He cometh suddenly to his Temple Behold he shall come saith the Lord and who may abide his coming therefore it is said by S. Paul he was appointed Heir of all things He comes saith the Text whose right it is Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews This right of Ruling and Power the Lord Jesus saith of himself in Mat. 28. 18. All power is given me of my Father in Heaven and in Earth therefore it is said in the Text I will give it him The whole Text thus open'd and the circumstances thereof considered there do arise these several Inferences The first Inference is from the Time c. When the Wicked plot against the Just and combine in rebellious Conspiracies then doth approach the appointed ruine of the Plotters This Sin of Witchcraft carries men blind-folded to destruction and that is the reason I think why it is so called men are bewitch'd to lay Snares that their own feet may be taken Non est Lex aequior ulla quam necit artifices arte perire suae A juster Law can no man make nor wish Than Plotters of Death should for Plotting perish Therefore did the Psalmist sing The Heathen are sunk in the Pit that they have made in the Net which they have hid are their own feet taken And from this time of Zedekiah's Rebellion when he conspired against the King of Babylon and brought upon himself by his Plotting a total Ruine we may very well observe that Conspiring and Plotting Times are but the Fore-noons to the Evenings of executing Rebels I have a very sure word of testimony for it Psal 37. 12 13. The wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth against him with his teeth but the Lord laugheth at him to scorn for he knoweth that his day is coming The Lord laugheth to scorn at the wicked Plots and Conspiracies of bewitch'd minds and though men do not perceive their approaching Ruine God knoweth that his day is coming In the Net which every bloody Traytor hath made may his own foot be first taken And do not we now see whose days are come and whose iniquity will have an end is it not the days of such as devise Rebellion and who hath not a full sense of these unquiet and restless Spirits who never cease to plot against the just yea a most just tender and gracious Soveraign and who are those and how many of all hands do we daily see that gnash their teeth against him and against his Protestant Church and Kingdom of England The Ignatian Tribe the Brood of lame Loyolah falsly call'd Jesuits for indeed they are aes avitae saith one spend all their time and wits to bring the Kings of the Earth to the Battel of the great day of the Lord that is to sow Sedition and Rebellion in the whole World witness their late Dismal Plot of Gun-powder and this now discover'd of no less danger as 't is credibly reported Dr. Hall in his Epistle to the Bishop of Bath and Wells observes the time of this plotting Confederacy with their ador'd Idol the Pope to be approaching saying All the World knows how that pretended Chair of Peter tottered and crack'd threatens a speedy ruine to her Usurper how is it that it still stands This rebellious Zedekiah Jer. 52. 1 2 3. and 2 King 24. 18 19 20. which two places of Scripture are the same word by word felt the revengeful stroke of Gods hand of Justice in a short time after his ungrateful and undutiful opposing of the King of Babylon And the Holy Ghost speaking of Antichrist who indeed is a Rebel against Christ professing the name of a Christian but opposing him in Doctrine and Practice tells us his destruction is swift and his judgment lingereth not And to conclude this point see how free from this witchcraft of Rebellion all the true Sons of the Church of England Princes and People are and ever have been accounted insomuch that their perfect Loyalty and true observance of their Kings is born as a mark in their Forehead and is become a Proverb No Bishop no King no King no Bishop 2. Inference from the Provocation When obdurate hearts contemn the words of God admonishing and threatning by his Messengers they aggravate their former sins and exasperate Divine Indignation against them In the verse before the Text Hoc revocatis i. e. hereby ye call to remembrance that is by disdaining my Prophets and Prophecies which in your sight is as a false Divination through the hardness of your hearts against me saith the Lord you provoke me to call to mind the wickedness prophaneness idolatries bloodshed oppression and blasphemies that is amongst you and all the Apostacy of your Forefathers this 380 years and upwards You have transgressed very much 2 Chron. 36. 14 15. after all the abomination of the Heathen and polluted the House of the Lord and I sent unto you my Messengers rising up betimes and sending because I had compassion on you saith the Lord. But this is it that imbittered me against you more than any thing you have mocked my Messengers and despised my words till my wruth rose against you till there was no remedy Pro. 29. 1. He that being often reproved hardneth his neck shall be suddenly destroyed and that without remedy This was the case of Ely's Children who disdaining the voice of their Father persisted in their pollutions till God in his wrath slew them This hardning of the heart is nothing else but the contempt of Gods Word and the contempt of Gods Word is the provoking of God to his face When the people invited to the Wedding in the Parable of the Marriage-Supper made light of
under the New Testament wrestless against Powers and Principalities that is men exercising Authority which he calls spiritual wickedness in high places Again in the 16th verse he tells you that you are to take the Shield of Faith which is able to quench all the fiery darts of the Wicked whereby you must understand that that wicked one hath fiery Darts with him to throw at the faithful and by fiery Darts you can think of nothing else but bloody Persecutions And lastly you may know that wicked party by his blasphemy prophaneness and coming after the working of Satan with all Powers and Signs and lying Wonders who opposing and exalting himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God So that in every particular when these are compared with the former Prince and People they are guilty of the same wickedness and prophaneness As thus Under the Old Testament 1. Those forsook the Law of the Lord. 2. Those despised holy things 3. Those followed the Idolatrous Practises of the Heathen World 4. Those deliver'd their Children to Maloch and shed Innocent Blood To Zedekiah and Israel in the Text it is said Thou prophane wicked Under the New Testament 1. These received not the love of the Truth 2. These sitting in the Temple of God shew himself that he is God 3. These exalt above God with signs and lying wonders after the working of Satan 4. These shoot Fiery Darts of Persecution To Antichrist and his Kingdom in the New Testament Thou man of sin and wicked 2 Thes 2. 3. 8. Now I will shew you how the Pope of Rome and the Roman Church resemble revolted Israel in their Apostacy and wickedness and will also declare how clear and free the King and Church of England are from this Charge Polanus saith That the Popish Canons and Decretals with the Lives and Practises of the Popes do expresly declare them to be Antichrist and Anti-Christ is defin'd to be a Man exercising Authority Head of the Universal Apostacy and Desertion of the Faith professing the Name of Christ yet opposing himself to Christ and his Doctrine That he is a Man exercising Authority no Man denys that he is Head of Universal Apostacy and opposeth Christ and his Doctrine I will plainly shew in my Application We are oblig'd to regard his Person as a Prince and a Prelate by the Laws of God and Nature i. e. to give honour to whom honour is due but it is his Vices and Corruption we cry out against and what the Scripture and judicious Divines ancient and modern of reformed Protestants have declar'd concerning him we may without malice or hatred speak of him and omitting all terms of honour he is an Idolater a Hypocrise a Blasphemer ambitious proud lawless and forbidding to marry covetous vain a Lyar a cruel Tyrant a Persecutor and Murderer of the Saints despising holy things and sitting in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God The Idolatry of the Church of Rome in worshipping the Pope as Supreme Head of the Universal Church and Images with the Relicks of Saints and their Invocations upon the Virgin Mary with the lifting up of the Host are as directly against the I. and II. Commandment as Blood shed is against the VI. and as palpable as it was with Israel who worshipp'd the Sun Moon and Planets He must have a good Hide saith Dr. Hall that can worship Martin ' s Boots George ' s Scabbard Crispin ' s Pareing-Knife Thomases her Shoo and Joseph's Breeches to equalize these Fopperies with the Son of God in point of worship as those do who fall before them and call upon them as Eraesmus complains is abominable Idolatry and horrible Impiety The Blood-shed of Rome is so sensibly known through all the Christian World that every Country can bear witness to it and no marvel the Holy Ghost compare her to a Woman clothed in Scarlet and drunk with the Blood of Saints The fiery Darts of this wicked-one have been so prevalent in Italy that at one time was condemn'd 16000 Protestants where 18 had their Throats and jugular Veins cut with a Butchers-Knife the Butcher putting it between his Teeth whilst he did rid his Hand of one and take the other In Queen Mary's days were several hundreds here in England burnt in the space of the two last years of her Reign 13 sometimes together 12. 10. 6. 5. and other numbers Bishops Preachers Gentlemen Tradesmen old and blind Men Cripples and poor Maids no sort of Christians could escape the fury of these bloody Persecutions And to speak of their Covetousness Oppression Prophaneness and Blasphemies which are so common will be too tedious for me to hint here in the corner of a Sermon therefore in a word I leave this point concerning the charge and say it may be well said Thou wicked and prophane Pope of Rome whose Day is come and thy Iniquity shall have an end remove the Diadem take away the Crown I will exalt him that is low and abase him that is high I will overturn overturn overturn it until he comes c. Inference the fifth from the Confusion of Judah and Jerusalem Crowns and Kingdoms cannot stand when God Almighty hath denounc'd their fall Witness the fall of all the mighty Monarchs of the World and therefore this Prophet expostulateth pathetically Can thy Heart endure or will thy Hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with thee I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more and who can say to God What dost thou The Beast with seven Heads and ten Crowns must fall and tumble down when God is pleas'd to toss them Whom the Lord shall destroy with the Spirit of his Mouth and consume with the brightness of his coming But as for the King and Church of England being free from the Charge they may be also concluded to be free from the Judgment in the sence of all charitable minds And that they are free from the Charge let every sober-minded Man weigh these Particulars 1. The King and the Church of England protest to maintain nor suffer for no other Faith but that which was once by Apostolical Tradition deliver'd to the Saints This Profession do both Prince and People by a mutual Oath and Covenant bind themselves to assert keep and uphold to the honour and glory of God as good King Josiah and his People in their days His Majesty as other Kings his Predecessors of blessed memory at their Coronation first promiseth being ask'd by the Arch-Bishops to keep and afterwards by Oath confirms the Laws and Customs of England namely the Laws Customs and Franchises granted to the Clergie by the glorious King St. Edward his Predecessor according to the Laws of God the true Profession of the Gospel and according to the Prerogatives of the Kings thereof and defend and uphold the same to the honour