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Excerpt from The History of Resistance as Practis'd by the Church of England: In Which 'Tis Proved, From Most Authentick Records, That in Every Reign Since the Reformation of Religion, the Said Church Hath Aided and Assisted
Allegiance for the Pretender. 'tis to promote his Intere that.thefe-high Fanta ick Principle have been foi'iealoufli' by the Rehearferan his Party {and I Willi that other e poufe them for the fame Reafon. Bur'let us hear allittle more of Mr. Agate's Ofitory If anp (fays this Declainter on the Thirtieth of j'anuary who have been Baptized m to our Church, are'for the Do�trine ofrefif'rance, I pronounce them to he Enemiet hath to our Churth and Confiitution. And fo made ifihe main Drift of his D'zfconrfato Atheifi't and De'zfis, Papift: and lift the Higher I'owers upon any pretence whatjbefver 7 have read, that before the Reformation, the Archbifhop 'of Canter bury was called alterin: Orbis Papa; the Pope of another)wo, rld But that'the Curate of Sf. Mary Archer {hould fet up for 'a' Brz'tz'jhi Pope that he fhould affume' to himfelf a Power of pronouncing'who fila'llbe eft'eemed a true? Churchman, and who not, th', I confefs, is neat, furprize me, were 'not' the Humour o the Man pret tyiwellflrnbwn, and that he is remarkable for nothing mor'e'than an uncomntohmeafare of Afihrance. The Defign, therefore, of thefe Hijtorical Collegian}, is to convince this Part of the World, that the Church of England in former Ages, did not efpoufe thole Slavilh Principles, which Mitdgate pretends to be its fiandz'ng Do�trine And that no more is now faidfiby Whig: or Di?�nterf on the Point of Rcfi?ance, than what has been formerly praftifed by sbop: and Connocatiom. To make this Matter clear, I would premife Two or Three Things, which no 'rea'fonable Man can deny me. Fir/t, Mens fillion: are the belt Bipounders of their Intentions, and 3) their Princzple: may be belt difcovered by their Prac'licer. L i Secondly, If all Refi?ance of Subje?s to their Princes be Rehellio'n, ' then all fuch as aid and ahet fuch Rebels involve themfelves in. The.
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