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Show Obfer'VationJ upon 8 Libell,publijhed,In Anno I~ 91._ refiraineth, only manifdl: Difo.b~dience, in impu~ning, and impeaching, ad vifedly, and am?nwuOy,he~ 11_aJcjt!a f~pream Pf1"Vcr; And Mai11taining, and Extollmg, a Forrazn Jurifa.llw1t. And as for the Oath it was altred, by her M"je.fty, Into a more grate full Form· the flarfbr.e.ffe of the Nt~.me, and Appellation, ofSHpream Head ~as removed ; And the Penalty, of the Refufall thereat; t ur· ned into a Difoblement, to take any Promotion, or to excrc1fe ~ny cha1~e; And yet that, with a LibertY., of~ein.~ Re~'efted, therem, if any Man {hall accept thereof, durmg his Life. . But after many years Toleratien, of a Multitude, ofFt!lftous ra pifls; When Pi111 ff2!!intU:, had Exconz~unic~ted her .ll.1ajfjly; And che Eill of Excommunicatton, was publtfhed 10 London; Wh.creby~ her M11Je.fty, was, in a fort:> profcribed,a~d all her subjc{]s, drawn, upon pain of Damnation, from her obedrenre; And that,then upon, a~ upon aPrincipallMotive, ?r Prepa~ative,followed, theRebellion, in the North; yet, notwtthfiandmg, becaufe many, of thofe Evill Humours, were, by that Rebellion, panly,pHrged; And that fbe feared at that time,no forrain Jnv,ifion; And much lef~, the Attempts,' of any, ~ithin the Realm, not backed, by fornt: F orrain succour .r from without; fhe contented her felf, to make a Law, againfi ~bat !pecia!J Cafe, of Bringing in, or publifhing, . ~f Bulls, or the like InftrHmeNIJ: Wlaercmnto ~as , added, a Proh,.bt.tion, not upon Pain ofTreaflm!>but of an Infenour Degree ofP1tnifhment, againfi bringing in, of Agn111 Dei\Hal/owed Beade.r, and fuch · other JI;Jerchmtdije, of Rome; As are weH known, not to be any E.ffentiall Part of the Romalj Religion; but ?nly to be u(ed, in practife as Love-TO'/zenr, to enchant, and bewttch, the people~ AffeCtion~: from their Allegeance, to their NaturallSQver~tiJ/t• In all other PointJ, her A-fajcjly continued, her former Lenity. But when about the 2oth. year of her R.aig1t, fhe had difcovered, in'the King of spai1r, an I11tention, to Invade her Dominion1; And that a principal! Point, of the Plot:> was, to prepare1 a Party, within the Realm, that mought adhere to the Forrainr.r: AnJ that the Seminarie~, began to hlojfome, and to fend forth, dJy.ly, Priifis, and profe.f]ed JVJen, who fhou.ld, by vow, taken. at Shnfr, reconcile her subje&s, from her obedience; yea, and bmd~ many of them, to attempt, againfi: her Majeftiu,Sacred Pe1·{on; And thar, by the Poyfon they fpred, the Humours, ofmoft Papijl.r, were altred; And that, they were no more Papifls in cuftome,but Pflpij~s, in Treafonable FAfJifm: Then were there, New Lawes made, tor the puniibment of fuch, as lliould fubmit themfelves, toReconcilements, or Remmciations, of obedience. For it is to be underfiood1 that thisManuer of Reconcilement, in Confelfion, is of the fame Nature, and Operation,- that the.Bull, it felf, was of, with this onely difference; That whereas, the B1tll, affoyled the sub-jeB. r'J from their obedience, at once, the other doth it, one by one. And therefore it is, both more Secret, & more Injinuative, into the Confcience, being joy ned with no lefie Matter, then 1an Abj0lutio11, from Obforvati onn1pon a Libe 11 ;p;;Uifo~ fn Auu10, 1 Sll• from Mortal/. Si11-. And becaufe it' was-;-1r· c·a·r;o · --d:- · I. I 1 , :> . .... 'Jvtt, carne th t 'J·e o l C. o uAa e.r, and m wonderfult Secrclie and "'ai""le r.c.:ld J' 'J.. ' ... ' u· Ulile to Lrc, 'Jt:) nd that there was no Pretumption, th g·offogrear, as the Recufants, to come to Divine Ser-vice be .. a r · , (c t d b h · D · , , ~ UJ.e 1 t was e o~n, y t tlr ecrees; '1 hat to come to church b :fl Reconczlemen_t, lt'tfS to /;vc in Schijitt ; fmt to come to ChH ~t-%e after Reconcilement, wtM, abjobttely, HerctictdiJ and n,zmnable. There~ fore ~here w~re added new Lawer, containing a p1111if!Jmcnt pec~marJ, agamft the Recufa'!ts; Not to enforce conjcience.r but to Enfhee ble thofe, of whom u refied Indiffit... ... r·ent .) an d A ll1r(l ·lg u-ous,~ ether they were reconciled, or no? For there is no doubt but If the La~v? ofRec1ljancy, . (.which is challenged, to be fi> Ex~ tream, and Rigorous>) were thus qualifit:d · 'Jhat aJ111 R ,r t ,, • .. ' ~· CC1':J rm thtlf flail, vo·bt mdt artly.-com.e in' an.d tcl"''-e h-is oa'· h th·t C../ sh ' J ... oeJ or e were neverreconc1 e, jhould,tmmediatly bedifcharged ofth p' 1 d F .r; · f ' · , e etzci ty an lJ orJf eihil f-reM, o' · the· Law; They would be fo £.. fi · . l'k' ' ~r, iOH1 1 mg we , o t at tttgatwn, as they would cry out it w:ts made to e~_tr'if them. An~ when, notwithfianding, all'this provifion t IS oyfon w~s dtfperfed fo fecrcdy, as that there was n~ ~~anes hto fray 1t, but to refrrain the Merchants that brought 1t m;. T en was there 1afily.added; a•Law, wher~by fuch scd;tious Przeji:s, of ~he Nc1-~ E~ellwn, ~ere- exiled; And thofc, tlut were, at that tJme, wHhin the LatJd, fi1ipped over; And fo command~ d, to keep hence) upon Pain, ofTrea[rm. .This hath been the.r~ocecding, wirh that sort) though intermmgled, not onel.y, Witn ~undry Exaniplci) oj her Mctjeflier Grace towards fuch:> a!', tn her w1fdome file l new t6 be p P' fJ. • c ' r; · d · . ' a t.; .. s, In on- Jr;z~n.ce, ~n not In fa[fton; But, a!fo; with an extraordinar M1t1gat10n, towards the offenders in the tHirrhefl. De·ur · ,o! db L ·r h 'J)\ ' ·· 6 Jt: .:>ce,convi\..l-c Y a~, 1 t ey .would protefi: That, · in Caft, this Realm, 1ou~ beh 1~vaded, wrth a 'Forrain ArmJ; by the Popes A1tthority fer t e . "~t oltck C4ufe~ ( a_.r the; term it,'j 1 hej would, tafte part 0 with her Ma.p;;ty, and not adhere, to her enamies;r . And whereas he faith, no Prieft iiealt in matter of State (Ballard onely exceptcds) it appeare h' by the Record~, of th~ ConfeJJ!on, ot the fa1~ BaUard=> aud fundry mher PrieflJ · That al} Pnefls, at that tun~, generally, were made acquainted:> Wlth the · Inv_ajion then Intended, and afterwards put in Act; And ~ad rece1 ved lnfirud:ions, not onel y, to move ari E~pectati~~ J ;no t~e ~eopl~, of a Change; Rut alfo, to iakc; thcir Vows;, r mi[e~,1n S~n[t, to adhere to the Forrainer. Tnfomuch, that on~, of ~hetr Pr~netpall Hea1s, vaunted himfelf, in a Lettr.r;, ef ~b:d Devife, faytng; That. It was a Point, the Counfell of Engfho~ l;ould .never .dream of; Who would imagine, that they h . pra~bfe, wah fome Nohle-kian to make him Head of t etr F afluJn • h h · k C ' · ' h P ' w ereas t . ey too a ourfe onely to dea] with t( b e 'ledo pb le '·b A n d t h em, fc'o fce verally, as a' ny On'e appreh'e nded au e a le to appeal, no inore then· Himfelf, except th~ S P1"iefls |