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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46967	The tryal and examination of a late libel, intituled, A new test of the Church of Englands loyalty with some reflections upon an additional libel, intituled, An instance of the Church of Englands loyalty.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1680 (1680)	Wing J846; ESTC R16934	13,743	12

Office to Protect the Church of England as it is by Law established And therefore to talk of withdrawing Protection from the Church of England is to talk of removing the Thames to York But we are so much used to such empty threatnings and flashes in the pan that we know they will not kill So the Reply to the Oxford Reasons against Addressing threatens the Church of England that by the Prerogative in Matters Ecclesiastical it may be in great measure Legally Subverted p. 4. A Legal Establishment even while it remains such Legally Subverted● They would make us believe that the Laws of England were made up of Jesuitical AEquivocations and did blow Hot and Cold with the same mouth But besides That Replyer should be told that a thousand more of his pompous Quotations which were written in the time of the High Commission will not Revive that Branch of the Statute 1 Eliz. upon which the High Commission Court was erected And likewise he should be told that a Power given by One Statute and taken away afterwards by Two is certainly reduced to its Primitive nothingness But I return to our present Author only to take my leave of him which he has done of the Church of England in these words And now let us leave the Holy Mother Church at liberty to consult what new Measures of Loyalty she ought to take for her own dear Interest and for ought I know it may be worth her serious consideration I am in hopes That this Church of God which he hath purchased with his own Blood though this Author be pleased to trample upon her with so much Scorn and Insolence will take Occasion even at an Enemies bidding to consult what New Measures of Loyalty she ought to take for her own dear Interest and for the Interest of Posterity which is much dearer and for the Everlasting Interest of both which is dearest of all And will humbly and heartily Bewaile her Disloyalty to her great Lord and Master and those many and great and open Transgressions and Violations of His most Holy and Righteous Laws which are amongst us And O that every member of that Communion in particular would speedily repent and return to his Duty and persevere in a course of Holy Obedience to his lives end This is the Loyalty that is too much wanting in the Church of England which is due to the Laws of our Blessed Saviour who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords As for her Earthly Lords They cannot charge her with any Disobedient or Lawless carriage towards them or with any Disregard to the Laws unless perhaps in some unwarrantable Officious Instances which it would hardly be Proper for them to Object against her And to the end that both we and our Children after us may be Better Subjects to our Blessed Lord than hitherto we have been I am in hopes That the Church of England will lay a dead Hold upon that great Depositum which the Laws have put into her hands which is the only Instrument of our Reformation I mean the English Bible We are very bad now But what would become of us if we should likewise be deprived of the only means to make us better If all the Laws of the Land were Abolished there could be no Loyalty And if the Gospel were taken away which is the Laws and Statutes of Heaven how were it possible for us to be the Subjects of Jesus Christ We might indeed be the Servants of Men and Vassals to the Pope but we could not possibly obey the Gospel of Christ if it were taken and hid from us We remember full well who they were that would not suffer an English Bible to be in this Kingdom for very many Ages together And if any devout and Religious Soul who desired to know his Masters will had gotten but the Lords Prayer or Ten Commandments in English it cost him his Life We shall never forget the Seven Coventry Martyrs who were burned all together in the little Park the 4th of April 1519. for teaching their Children and Family the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandments in English. Nor shall we ever forget how the poor Children were sent for and charged in no wise to meddle any more with those very small Scriptures upon pain of suffering the same Death with their Parents What is once made Heresie by an Infallible Church must be always and every where Heresie though Heresie indeed is not every where Burning for want of opportunity Thanks be to God and our good Laws that it is not so here And I hope the Church of England will always be careful to assert the Authority and Majesty of the Laws which are so much to be preferred and valued above our Lives in as much as by them we enjoy both our Lives and the Protestant Religion together May God be entreated to continue this Unvaluable and Undeserved Blessing to us and to our Posterity Amen Some Reflections upon the Additional Libel intituled An Instance of the Church of England's Loyalty IT is a just Judgment upon those who have Renounced their Reason to embrace Transubstantiation and thereby have distorted their natural faculties That their Understandings stand awry for ever after and we cannot expect so much as Common sense from them any more From thenceforward they Write as well as Believe contradictious Mysteries and he that means to comprehend their awkerd and perverse reasonings must stand upon his Head. We need not go far to fetch Examples of this for the late Instance of the Church of Englands Loyalty is a remarkable Instance of all that I have said Wherein there are these following Absurdities delivered in a way of much smartness and with the appearence of very close Reasoning 1. The Articles and Canons of the Church of England are set aside and some few Addresses in this present Reign are made the Standard of the Doctrine of the Church of England 2. The Bishops and Clergy of several Convocations who have been Dead these Hundred years are rendred Disloyal for not governing themselves by these Addresses two years ago which they knew not of 3. Mary Queen of Scots is made Queen of England by such an Argument as makes her No Queen of Scots and by giving her anothers Kingdom takes away her own 4. Mary Queen of Scots is made Queen of England upon the Hypothesis of the Paternal Right when upon that Hypothesis she was disinherited and foreclosed from the Crown of England by two Successive Patriarchs Henry the 8. and Edward the 6. I should think for that very Reason That the Hypothesis of the Laws had been a much Better Hypothesis In the opening a little and shewing these Absurdities I suppose I shall meet with all that is remarkable in that Paper 1. The Articles and Canons of the Church of England are set aside and some few Addresses in this present Reign are made the Standard of the Doctrine of the Church of England p. 3. and 5. Is this