A FOURTH COLLECTION OF SCARCE and VALUABLE TRACTS, ΟΝ ΤHE MOST Interesting and Entertaining Subjects : But chiefly such as relate to the History and Constitution of these Kingdoms. - Selected from an infinite Number in Print and Manuscript, in the ROYAL, Particularly that of the Late LORD SOMERS. Revised by EMINENT HANDS. VOL III. The Bent and Genius of the Age is best known, in a free Country, by the Pamphlets Judex qui aliquid statuit, unâ parte auditâ tantum, & inauditâ alterâ, licet æquum 1 LONDON: Printed for F. COGAN, at the Middle-Temple-Gate, in Fleet-Street. MDCCLI. NEW YORK i A FOURTH COLLECTION OF TRACTS. A new Test of the Church of England's Loyalty: Or, Whiggish Loyalty and Church Loyalty compared. By Daniel D'Foe. 1702. I N all the unhappy Contentions among Parties and Factions, in this brangling Nation, the Champions of the Church of England, as they wou'd have themselves call'd, have laid it down as the distinguishing Mark of their Hierarchy, that it is her Practice, and has been derived from her very Constitution, as well as Doctrine, to fix in all her Members Principles of unfhaken Loyalty to her Prince, entire and undisputed Obedience to all her Commands, and an Abhorrence of the very Thoughts of those Hellish Principles, That it can be lawful, on any Account, whatsoever to refift the establish'd Power of their Kings. 'Twou'd be endless to quote the Reverend Dr. B-ge, who, from the Text in the Refift not the Powers, &c. for whatsoever Powers are, be ordained of God; whosoever therefore resisteth the Power, refifteth the Ordinance of God; tells us, "That if the King shou'd, by his Royal " Command, execute the greatest Violence upon either our Person or Estate, 66 66 our Duty was to submit by Prayers and Tears first to God Almighty, to "turn the Wrath of his Vicegerent from his Servant, and by humble Entreaty to beg his Majesty's Grace and Pardon; but to lift up the Hand " against the Lord's Anointed, or resist the Evil of Punishment he thought fit " to inflict, this were a Crime unpardonable either before God or Man, and "a Crime (says the Reverend Doctor) which we bless God the very Prin"ciples of our ever loyal Mother, the Churchof England, abhors and detefts." VOL. III. B "Let L |