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Dttfce of Sttssex * in his free and manly representati on of this subject , though itis vrorthy of remark , that it was for such a representation that the virtuous confessor , Delaune , was persecuted to imprisonment , •* and eventuall y to death , in another age . The
question ds settled by the admission of the validity of ordination in the Romish Church on the part of the Church of England , which at the same time requires re-ordination of the Presbyterian Clergy , thus acknowledging that the two episcopal churcheg are sisters of the same family .
The second article in this Appendix to the Piece of Anthony Ulric , professes to represent the serious thoughts of Charles II . upon the subject of the visible church , - which on the arguments commonly used by the
adherents of the papacy , he discovers onty in the Church of Rome . There is a story , that Charles once amused himself on this subject of a visible church , by declaring , on account of its situation , for Harrow on the Hill .
This jest appeared quite in character , but his brother King James attests the authenticity of these papers ns written in Charles ' s own hand , and found , one in his strong box , and the other in his closet . For this Mr . Hume , unaccountably , charges James with impolicy .
It would now appear a most trifling inquiry , in what faith such a libertine as Charles IT . lived or died . Nor would any religious communion be solicitous to claim him . Yet as one effect of the union of church and
state , in the person of a king , this was an object of solicitude in the days of Churles and James > and the latter , for an obvious reason , wished to have jt believed , that his brother secretly ll a Roman Catholic and died in that communion : while the
Protestant Clergy knew not how to give JJP tlieir most religious king ; for with tnis new title , notwithstanding his wdwguisei profligacy , on the re-eskolishment of their liturgy , they had tested Charles IL *
• Bid the King ' s manner of life in-* w * the Church to inform God that he I ? most gracious , ~ br full of grace ? , Or ia ? T ° kehaviour athis seldom presence reliHT ^ aerFic *> declare him to be most fell > ? Thi * & ' s father and grander flatterers , went no lusher than to
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In the first volume of a . Golteptioit of scarce pieces , entitled The Phenix , published ia 1707 , there are several articles on the religion of Charles II . ending with the two papers I have mentioned . No . 9 > gives ** The Form and Order of his Coronation at Scoon , ' *
1 Jan . 165 l . t On this occasion , Charles was constrained to hear a long sermon , io which he was early instructed to become a persecutor , being taught that " by the covenant the king must be far from toleration of any false religion , within his
dominions . " Some dependence was also placed on his piety . He was told that " prayersare not much in request at Court ; but a covenanted king must bring them into request . " Reading the covenants followed the sermon *
** Then the minister , standing before the pulpit , ministered the oath unto the king ; who , Jkneeling , and lifting up his right hand , did swear in the words following-: " I Charles , King of Great Britain , France and Ireland , do assure and
deflatter them , that they were bound by no laws and were accountable to none but God for all their actions 5 and that their subjects were bound to obey them under penalty of damnation . They never went about to persuade God they were most religious and gracious in so doing * . " Coke ' s Detection . 1694 . ii . 126 .
U A collect was drawn up for the Parliament , in which a new epithet was added to the king ' s title , that gave great offenca , and occasioned much indecent raillery . — And those who took great liberties with him have often asked him , what must all his people think , whea they heard him played for as their mo 3 t relig-ious king . " Burnet , O . T . i . 183 .
f We learn from Burnet , ( O . T . i . 56 ) that the Scots bad some time before prepare ^ a declaration , in which " were many bard things . The king- owned tbe sin of bis father in marrying into an idolatrous family . He expressed a deep sense of his own ill education , and the prejudices be bad drunk in against the ' cause of God , of which he was now very sensible .
And with solemn protestations he affirmed that be was now sincere in his declaration , and that he would adhere to it , to the end of his life in England , Scotland and Ireland . " Tbe bishop adds , " The king w ?\ s very uneasy when this was brought to him . He said , he could never look his mother iu the face , if h ^ j passed it . But when he wsis told k was necessary for his affairs , he resolved to swallow the pill , without farther chewing * il .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/23/
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