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religion_n	authority_n	church_n	scripture_n	4,231	5	6.1426	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43681	The spirit of popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical-Protestants, or, The last speeches of Mr. John Kid and Mr. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his murder, extracted out of the registers of the Privy-Council, &c. / by an orthodox Protestant.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1874; ESTC R6348	165,592	93

will be mightily endangered if not destroyed by the latter not only the Baptizing of Infants the Observation of the Lords-day the Admission of Women to the Holy-Communion who were not as Cassand observes admitted to the Paschal Lamb which it succeeded nor can it be expresly proved out of the New Testament that ever they received it but the Order and Authority of Presbyters to Administer it nay the use of both the Holy Sacraments which the Vid. Apol. Relig Reform by Barclay Quakers say was a Temporary Institution and the Divine Authority of the Scriptures in general upon which the Christian Religion depends But I hear that one intends to do this in a particular Tract wherein he also designs to shew That scarce one particular of the Christian Religion except the Authority of the Scriptures in general hath been so little contested as Episcopacy and Episcopal Ordination wherein for above 1400. years the Hereticks agreed with the Catholick Church This being so it may easily be discerned to what cause we ought chiefly to ascribe that Deluge of Atheism and utter contempt of Religion which hath overflowed the Land You have been the main occasion of it the Atheists as well as the whole Brood of Sects are your though I confess Equivocal Offspring and to give them their due they have not been ingrateful but always serviceable to you and upon all occasions have joined with you in your main designs against the Bishops and the Church However it is the Churches unhappiness yet it is not Her dishonour that She and Her Clergy have you and them your Allies for their Common Enemies you joyn hand in hand against them and endeavour to cover their Faces with shame and fill their Souls with contempt But I desire you seriously to consider whether your ingratitude to God for such a Church and your contempt and forsaking of such a Clergy who have always been such faithful and invincible Champions against the Papists be not one of those crying Sins which have justly provoked God to threaten us with Popery and which may at length urge him to bring you under the King of Babylon both for your Punishment and Cure I believe you will be offended at me for what I have said of the necessity of Episcopal and invalidity of Presbyterian Orders but I have said no more of this Subject than Bishop Against Champney page 118. Fern who asserts that the latter are to be accounted void within the Church of England and every compleat and regularly formed Church Or Bishop Answer to the third Epist. of Pet. Moulin Andrews who asserted That the Reformed Church of France in wanting Episcopacy wanted something which was of Divine Right Or King In his first Paper to Mr. Henderson Charles the First who asserted That by the alteration of our Church-Government we should be deprived of a Lawful Priesthood c. Or in effect then Apocalypsis Apocalypscos page 130. Dr. More who on Rev. 13. 11. makes Episcopacy to be the Horns of the Lamb which were upon the Beasts or Antichrists Head Or last of all then In his Separation of Churches Mr. Dodwell who as I am assured from very good Judges hath unanswerably shewed the nullity of these by the necessity of having those in every visible Church I have not yet seen the Book but I am confident I am rightly informed about it because I find Mr. Baxter so angry both at it and the Author in his last Book I shall say no more than this That if this Doctrine be true then you who maliciously oppose the Divine Institution or who by virtue of Presbyterian Orders Sacrilegiously presume to Administer the Sacraments in opposition to our Episcopal Communions within the British Isles have a sad account to give without Repentance to the Head and Founder of the Catholick Church Edinburgh Jan. 5. 1679. 80. The Author having met with King Charles the Firsts Declaration concerning his Subjects of Scotland 1640. since he finished his Animadversions thought fit to add what follows out of the 56 57 and 58 Pages for the further illustration of what is said of the Letter of the Covenanting Lords to the French King in the 30th Page BUT to fill up the measure of their Treasons they have endeavoured to settle Intelligences in parts beyond the Seas and practised to let in Foraign Power into that Our Kingdom as We are able to make appear under the hands of some of the chiefest of them as if the fire which by their own Rebellions they have already kindled within the bowels of that State were not sufficient to consume it unless they added fuel to it from abroad And herein appears first their malignity to Us their Natural Soveraign in that they had rather prostitute themselves to Foraign Government and that such as is different in Religion than yield conformity to Ours But because the World shall see that We charge them not but upon very good and sure grounds We have thought fit to set down here their own Letter Of which We have given Our good Brother the French King accompt being confident he will not assist any Rebels against Us. The Letter follows with this endorsement Au Roy which in France is always understood from those Subjects only to their Natural Prince SIRE VOstré Majesté estant l'asyle sanctuaire des Princes Estats affligéz nous avous trouvé necessaire d'envoyer ce Gentilhome le Sieur de Colvil pour representer à V. M. la candeur naiveté tant de nos actions procedures que de nos intentions lesquelles nous desirons estre gravées escrites à tout ●univers avec un ray du Soleil aussy bien que V. M. Nous vous Supplions doncques treshumblement Sire de ●●y adjouster foy creance a tout ce qu'il dira de nostre part touchant nous nos affaires estant tresasseurés Sire d'une assistance eigale a Vostre clemence accoustumee cydevant si souvent monstrée a ceste Nation laquelle ne cedera la gloire á autre quelconque d'estre eternellement Sire de V. M. Les treshumbles tresobeyssants tressaffectionnés Serviteurs Rothes Montrose Leslie Mar. Montgomery Loudoun Forrester Englished thus SIR YOur Majesty being the Refuge and Sanctuary of afflicted Princes and States we have found it necessary to send this Gentleman Mr. Colvil to represent unto Your Majesty the candor and ingenuity as well of our actions and proceedings as of our intentions which we desire to be engraved and written to the World with a beam of the Sun as well as your Majesty We therefore most humbly beseech You Sir to give faith and credit to him and to all that he shall say on our part touching us and our affairs being most assured Sir of an assistance equal to Your wonted clemency heretofore and so often shewed to this Nation which will not yield the glory to any other whatsoever to be eternally Sir Your Majesties most humble most obedient and