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A century of reasons for subscription and obedience to the laws and government of the Church of England, both ecclesiastical and civil. With reasons against the covenant Justifi'd by scripture, confirmed by the laws of the kingdom, the right and power of kings, ecclesiastical and human authorities, with an harmony of confessions. [T]o which is annexed the office and charge belonging to the overseers of the poor, &c. [By] W. Wasse school-master in Little Britain near unto Christ-church.

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A century of reasons for subscription and obedience to the laws and government of the Church of England, both ecclesiastical and civil. With reasons against the covenant Justifi'd by scripture, confirmed by the laws of the kingdom, the right and power of kings, ecclesiastical and human authorities, with an harmony of confessions. [T]o which is annexed the office and charge belonging to the overseers of the poor, &c. [By] W. Wasse school-master in Little Britain near unto Christ-church.
Author
Wasse, William.
Publication
London :: printed by W.W. for R.H. at the Bible in Heart in Little Britain,
1663.
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Church of England -- Discipline -- Early works to 1800.
Obedience -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
Charity -- Early works to 1800.
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"A century of reasons for subscription and obedience to the laws and government of the Church of England, both ecclesiastical and civil. With reasons against the covenant Justifi'd by scripture, confirmed by the laws of the kingdom, the right and power of kings, ecclesiastical and human authorities, with an harmony of confessions. [T]o which is annexed the office and charge belonging to the overseers of the poor, &c. [By] W. Wasse school-master in Little Britain near unto Christ-church." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96061.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2024.

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* 1.1THE Decree of the B B of Spain, assembled in a Na∣tional Council at Toledo, against Perjury and Trea∣son.

Whosoever amongst us shall from this time forward violate the Oath which he hath taken for the safeguard of this Coun∣try, and the preservation of the King's Majesty; Whosoever shall attempt the King's Death, or Deposition; Whosoever shall by Tyrannical presumption aspire to

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the Royal Throne; let him be Accursed before the Holy Spirit, before the blessed Saints, let him be cast out of the Catho∣lique Church, which he hath polluted by Perjury, let him have no Communion with Christian men, nor Portion with the Just, but let him be Condemned with the Devil and his Angels eternally, together with his Complices, that they may be tied in the Bonds of Damnation which were joyned in the Society of Sedition.

* 1.2VVhosoever of us, or of all the People through all Spain, shall go about by any means of Conspiracy or Practice, to vio∣late the Oath of his Fidelity which he hath taken for the preservation of his Country, or of the King's Life; or who shall at∣tempt to lay violent hands upon the King, or to deprive him of his Kingly power, or by Tyrannical presumption Usurp the So∣veraignty of the Kingdom, let him be Ac∣cursed in the sight of God the Father and of his Angels, and let him be made and declared a Stranger from the Catholique Church, which he hath prophaned with his Perjury.

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