        item: #1 of 9
          id: A30368
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: An enquiry into the reasons for abrogating the test imposed on all members of Parliament offered by Sa. Oxon.
        date: 1688
       words: 7519
      flesch: 54
     summary: After that , he tells the Genty , that Transubstantiation was a Notion belonging to the School-men and Metaphysitians , and that he may bespeak their Favour , he tells them in very soft words , That their Learning was more polite and practicable in the Civil Affairs of Human Life , to understand the Rules of Honour , and the Laws of their Countrey , the practice of Martial Discipline , and the Examples of Great Men in former Ages , and by them to square their Actions in their re●●●●tive Station● , and the life . They are severe Masters , and will not be put off with Secret Civilities , Lewd Jests , Entertainments , and Healths drank to their good Success ; so now the Price of the ●residen●ship is to be pay'd , so good a Morsel as this deserved that Dr. Stillingfleet , Dr. Tillotson , Dr. Burnet , and some other Divines should be ill used , and He to preserve the Character of Drawcansir , which is as due to Him as th●t of Bays , falls upon the Articles of the Church , and upon both Houses of Parliament .
    keywords: burnet; church; doctrine; house; idolatry; pag; religion; tcp; test; text; ● ●
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        item: #2 of 9
          id: A32363
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: A proclamation anent pedagogues, chaplains and others
        date: 1683
       words: 1717
      flesch: 55
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: chaplains; eebo; english; tcp; text
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        item: #3 of 9
          id: A41295
      author: Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688.
       title: A letter writ by Mijn Heer Fagel, pensioner of Holland, to Mr. James Stewart, advocate giving an account of the Prince and Princess of Orange's thoughts concerning the repeal of the Test, and penal laws.
        date: 1688
       words: 4116
      flesch: 43
     summary: I must then first of all assure you very positively , that Their Highnesses have often declared , as They did it more particularly to the Marquis of Albeville , His Majesties Envoy Extraordinary to the States , that it is Their Opinion , that no Christian ought to be persecuted for his Conscience , or be ill used because he differs from the publick and established Religion ; And therefore , They can consent , that the Papists in England , Scotland and Ireland be suffered to continue in their Religion , with as much Liberty as is allowed them by the States in these Provinces ; in which it cannot be denied , that they enjoy a full Liberty of Conscience . But since the matter that is now in hand , relates not to the making of new Laws , but to the 〈…〉 those already made both by King and Parliament ; they do not see how it can be expected of them , that they should consent to such a Repeal , to which they have so just an aversion , as being a thing that is contrary to the Laws and Customs of all Christian States , whether Protestants , or Papists , who receive none to a share in the Governments , or to publick Employments , but those who profess the publick and established Religion , and that take care to secure it against all attempts whatsoever .
    keywords: catholicks; highnesses; laws; protestant; publick; religion
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        item: #4 of 9
          id: A48008
      author: Gentleman of the Romish religion.
       title: A letter from a gentleman of the Romish religion, to his brother, a person of quality of the same religion, perswading him to go to church, and take those oaths the law directs proving the lawfulness thereof by arguments not disagreeable to doctrines of the Roman Church.
        date: 1674
       words: 13979
      flesch: 44
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. For , Dear Brother , do but bestow a very little thinking ( Half as much as a Meditation before a Mass , will serve ) of that Authority which the Pope has left himself in England ; and you will find , that all Bulls formerly sent , or hereafter to come from Rome , during the continuance of this Excommunication are to be lookt on here as fraudulent , false , and forged ones , no ways binding the most zealous of his Holinesses Children , nay rather as things that in a most abusive manner give the lye to the solemnest Discipline and Rights of holy Church .
    keywords: authority; brother; catholick; church; england; good; law; nation; nay; oath; person; popes; power; religion; self; thing
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        item: #5 of 9
          id: A48813
      author: Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.
       title: An answer to the Bishop of Oxford's reasons for abrogating the test impos'd on all members of Parliament anno 1678, Octob. 30 in these words, I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testifie, and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at, or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation of adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the Dais, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous / by a person of quality.
        date: 1688
       words: 19180
      flesch: 37
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. 30 in these words, I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testifie, and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at, or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation of adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the Dais, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous / by a person of quality.
    keywords: act; bishop; body; christ; christian; church; god; hath; idolatry; law; man; nation; parliament; power; reason; religion; right; self; sense; test; things; transubstantiation; word; worship
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        item: #6 of 9
          id: A54166
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: A letter form [sic] a gentleman in the country to his friends in London upon the subject of the penal laws and tests
        date: 1687
       words: 3202
      flesch: 60
     summary: But you unfold the Riddle to me , when you tell me , 't is for fear of Popery , tho I own to you , I cannot comprehend it , any more then you do Transubstantiation : For that we should be afraid of Popery for the sake of Liberty , and then afraid of it because of Persecution , seems to me absurd , as it is , that Liberty should be thought the high way to Persecution .
    keywords: church; laws; liberty; popery; tcp; text
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        item: #7 of 9
          id: A54211
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: A second letter from a gentleman in the country to his friends in London upon the subject of the penal laws and tests.
        date: 1687
       words: 4884
      flesch: 64
     summary: But to be sure they Sting all that won't come to Church , and that every where . And yet after so gratious a Declaration , both to Church and Dissenters , and that has so decent a regard to the concurrance of a Parliament too , Who can be displeased ?
    keywords: church; england; government; king; laws; snake; tcp; text
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        item: #8 of 9
          id: A54782
      author: Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
       title: Sam. Ld. Bp. of Oxon, his celebrated reasons for abrogating the test and notions of idolatry, answered by Samuel, Arch-Deacon of Canterbury.
        date: 1688
       words: 5369
      flesch: 58
     summary: But , ( in the same Preface ) should it ever so happen hereafter , that any King of England should be prevail'd with to deliver up the Church , ( That is to say , to dispence with the Penal Laws and TEST ; for the TEST , notwithstanding the Reasons against it , must be included in this long Parenthesis , because the Church fram'd it ) he had as good , at the same Time , resign up his Crown . For my own part , says he● I know none , but the Nonconformist's boisterous an unreasonable Opposition to the Church of England ▪ If he think , that the Abrogation of the T●●● may be a means to unite the Papist , and the Di●senter , which he seems to intimate , by saying That the Faction of the Dissenters may be made use of , ●● instruments ( Iourney-men Tools ) to dissolve and unravel the establish'd Frame of things , and destroy the Church of England ; and so make an unobstructed Passage for the Return of Popery in Glory and Triumph ; then he has left his Cause in the Lurch , and relinquish'd all his Ecclesiastical Polity at once .
    keywords: arch; church; deacon; england; government; laws; pag; polity; test; text
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        item: #9 of 9
          id: A56393
      author: Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.
       title: Reasons for abrogating the test imposed upon all members of Parliament, anno 1678, Octob. 30 in these words, I A.B. do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testifie, and declare, that I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at, or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous : first written for the author's own satisfaction, and now published for the benefit of all others whom it may concern.
        date: 1688
       words: 32462
      flesch: 56
     summary: And Secondly , That the Invocation of Saints and the Mother of God is Idolatry : Both which Propositions are by this Law to be solemnly and sincerely in the Presence of God professed , testifyed , and declared , which in Conscience is the same thing with a formal Oath , whatever it is in Law. It is a Subject that hath entertained the most able Pens in the World , but I shall not presume or pretend to be so learned , but shall confine all my Knowledge to the Word of God , chiefly to the Mosaick Writings , for there it is fully and clearly stated , the Mosaick Law being enacted purely in Opposition to Idolatry .
    keywords: authority; blood; body; bread; christ; church; god; gods; hath; heaven; holy; idolatry; images; king; law; lord; man; men; new; people; presence; reason; self; substance; sun; thing; time; transubstantiation; wine; word; worship; year
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