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A50340 Remarks from the country, upon the two letters relating to the convocation and alterations in the liturgy Maurice, Henry, 1648-1691.; Basset, Joshua, 1641?-1720. 1690 (1690) Wing M1369; ESTC R10680 13,458 20

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Convocation to enact these Alterations the Archbishop of Canterbury and Five of his Suffragans Persons of great Consideration and credit in the Church lying at present under an incapacity The Objection about their Schism is nothing but a Calumny of their Enemies and shall have no Answer from me because it is not agreeable to my temper to give it such an Answer as it deserves But certainly an Archbishop the Praeses natus of the Convocation and Five Bishops of the Province must needs be missed in the House consisting of but Two and Twenty It is not enough to say that it is a Legal House without them for a House of Commons of Forty Persons is a Legal House but there would be great exceptions if Three times the number and no more should take upon them to Repeal a Statute or alter common Law And in this Jealousy that one Party has of another it appears odly that this time of all others should be thought most proper to introduce Alterations of such a consequence as these appear to be at the first view 11. The Kingdom is yet in such a ferment and many things so unsetled that to change now in the Church is like altering Military Exercise in the midst of a Battle or cavining a Ship in a Storm The most proper time for Alterations in Religion is that which is most calm when the Spirits of Men run low when there is a mutual confidence between parties when they all conspire in one desire of accommodation and when the Ecclesiastical Authority that is to Enact them is entire not only in respect of the Law but of Common Opinion And whether these circumstances belong to the present time you will easily discern I will conclude with answering Two Arguments in the Letters which I had almost forgot The First is that if we do not make Alterations most certainly the Parliament will and we may provoke them by our stiffness to follow the Example of Scotland It is a strange confidence and scarce of English growth to declare so certainly before-hand what our Parliament will do These Gentlemen will pardon me if I should think the Parliament something wiser than them and cannot apprehend any thing from them that may prove for the prejudice of the established Church and to the dissatisfaction of the generality of the Kingdom For the Example of Scotland we despise the Threatning I have read of an Owl that appeared in a Roman Councel and frighted the whole Assembly but our Church of England Convocations are not so easily scared This is the third Time that Episcopacy has been abolished in Scotland we know it to have revived twice and we still believe 〈◊〉 Resurrection The second Argument is that the King is desirous of these Alterations and the Church of England cannot but be safe in his hands This is an Argument I must acknowledge my self to be unable to answer yet I know that the King's Name and the King's Money are often used without his knowledge but because I cannot reply directly I will plead the Priviledge of Old Age and tell you a short Story In the Beginning of King James the First 's Reign the Presbyterians of this Kingdom entertained violent hopes of an Ecclesiastical Revolution and gave out every where that the King having been bred in Scotland in the Presbyterian way was desirous of a change in favour of it A great Number of Conformists and much a greater Number than have yet appeared for this new Project joyned with the Non conformists defamed the Common-Prayer beyond Measure declared they could never subscribe again though they had done it several Times before You know the Issue they found themselves mistaken in the King's Inclinations the moderate Men were glad to be reconciled to their Common-Prayer and the Church outlived the too hasty Triumphs of her Enemies and the Treachery of her pretended Friends FINIS