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Act of Parliament act of settlement admitted allegiance allowed appear argue assertions authority believe bishop Bishop of Winchester bull Catholic Emancipation church of Rome communion complain concessions conscience consequence considered Constance contended contrary council council of Constance declared decrees doctrines ecclesiastical elective franchise established church faith feelings Felix M'Carthy free constitution further gentleman granting grounds gunpowder plot Heretics Ireland Irish Roman Catholics John Huss justice kingdom language late least legislature liberal Lord loyalty matters ment Milner nature numbers oath oath of supremacy obedience opinion Papists Parliament persecution Petition Petitioners Pope Popish ministers priests principles professions Protestant King Queen question reader realm reason rebellion reign religious respect Roman Catholic Religion Romish church SERIOUS EXAMINATION shew shewn sincere Sir Richard Musgrave sort Sovereign spirit statute supremacy surely taken tell tholic tion Titular Bishop truth unchristian and impious usurpation word
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Page 18 - ... under pretence of their being heretics ; and also that unchristian and impious principle, that no faith is to be kept with heretics...
Page 51 - And I do further swear that I do, from my heart, abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, this damnable doctrine and position,— that princes, which be excommunicated by the pope, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 6 - Wynne's ed, ii. 249-63. governors, could not resist, to be the head of the church as well as of the state...
Page 9 - Possessions, or Revenues appertaining to the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Religion as by law established, or to the Churches committed to' their charge, or to any of them...
Page 57 - ... and images ; nay, even their transubstantiation. But while they acknowledge a foreign power, superior to the sovereignty of the kingdom, they cannot complain if the laws of that kingdom will not treat them upon the footing of good subjects.
Page 56 - ... opinion in religion, and their principles did not also extend to a subversion of the civil government. If once they could be brought to renounce the supremacy of the pope, they might quietly enjoy their seven sacraments, their purgatory, and auricular confession ; their worship of reliques and images ; nay even their transubstantiation.
Page 36 - ... but quietly to continue for the time, till (as before is said) further order may be taken, and therefore willeth, and straitly chargeth and commandeth all her good loving subjects to live together in quiet sort, and Christian charity, leaving those new found devilish terms of papist, and heretic, and such like ; and applying their whole care, study, and...
Page 20 - ... no faith is to be kept with heretics; I further declare, that it is no article of my faith, and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the Pope and council, or by any authority...
Page 17 - ... state, that they have, solemnly and publicly, taken the oaths by law prescribed to his majesty's Roman catholic subjects, as tests of political and moral principles ; and they confidently appeal to the sufferings which they have long endured, and the sacrifices which they still make, rather than violate their consciences, (by taking oaths of a religious or spiritual import, contrary to their belief), as decisive proofs of their profound and 298 scrupulous reverence for the sacred obligation of...
Page 36 - God, exercising their cenversations in such charitable and godly doing, as their lives may indeed express the great hunger and thirst of God's glory, which, by rash talk and words, many have pretended : And in so doing they shall best please God, and live without danger of the laws, and maintain the tranquillity of the...