Revolution of 1688, and History of the Orange Association of England and Ireland (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The Test Act now filled the minds of every one, and plainly proved that the King was resolved not only to encourage Papists, but to make it the established religion of the Three Kingdoms.

Although Monmouth's rebellion was at an end, the forces were continued and increased; and not only so. But Roman Catholics were made officers without taking the oaths and test as required by Act of Parliament. In fact, to such extremes did this infatuated Monarch go, in his zeal for propagating Popery in these countries, that Pope Innocent XI. Cautioned him as follows I am highly pleased with your zeal for the Catholic religion, but am afraid you Will carry it too far and, instead of contributing to your own greatness and the advancement of religion, you will both do your self and the Catholic religion the greatest prejudice by attempting that which can never succeed. At this time the Jesuits erected colleges and seminaries in all the considerable towns of England. Four Popish Bishops were publicly consecrated in the King' 8 Chapel at Whitehall, and monks appeared in the habits of their Order, and scrupled not to tell the Protestants that they hoped in a short time to regain possession of their lost property.

We come now to 1688, the third year of King James' s reign. He had promoted his great work (as he called it) with surprising rapidity. He had dissolved his parliament, and invested himself with absolute authority. The laws of the realm were openly violated; the privy council wholly Popish, and under the direction of a Jesuit (father Peters); the chief places in the court and kingdom pos sessed by persons of the same religion: in a word, he that was destined to be the last of the unfortunate Stuarts was, at all hazards, resolved to complete his work, backed by an army of men, encamped not half a day' s march from the capital.

The publication of a second declaration for liberty of conscience, which the King ordered to be read In all churches, was striking at the root of the Protestant religion. Several Bishops, who were in London, in order to avoid the impending blow, drew up a petition to his Majesty, wherein they signified that the proceeding was illegal - as had often been declared in Parliament in the years 1662 and 1672, and the beginning of his Majesty's reign.

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