The Church of _England_ is a meer Party, (say they again) and has a Watch-word whereby they know one another, which they can vary upon occasion. _Non-Resistance_ was the Word in King _Charles_'s days. For though at that time you did conform to every tittle and ceremony, injoin'd by Rubrick and Canon, yet if you failed in the Point of _Non-Resistance_, you were a _Phanatick_ and _Republican_, a _Rebel_, and what not? Now if this Doctrine be contain'd in the Book of Homilies, as the _Jacobites_ say, 'tis a Sacred Record of the Unjustice of some of those who concurred in the late Revolution. The _Shiboleth_ of the Church now is King _William's de facto Title_; And no Conformity to Homilies and Rubricks will make you owned by the present Church, if you should acknowledge the King to be otherwise said than a meer _de facto_. Now (say they) although we grant that Men will submit to the Government, upon their own particular Principles, and therefore 'tis reasonable that the King should admit the Obedience of his Subjects upon what Grounds they please, yet we know no Reason why the Church should set up the _de facto_, as the only Principle of Obedience: And when the King had better Titles to his Crown, as the Consent of the People in Parliament, and his Matrimonial Title with the Queen, yet he must be made to pay the greatest price for the weakest and worst of all Titles; and give Dr. _S----_ Sixteen Hundred Pounds a Year, for a _Defactoship_ only. You see, Sir, that the _Deists_ want not Occasions for their Prejudices, how far soever they are from having Reason o' their side. And pray resolve me, why must this false Title be set up as 'twere by the King's Consent, to worm out the only true one? Why must none be preferr'd to Church-Dignities, but such who come in upon this Title only? And those who own the King's Right upon the Consent of the People, be still labouring under the Church's highest displeasure? and poor _Johnson_, a Man against whom no Immorality was ever objected, that is an Object even of the _Deists_ Compassion, be left to starve for the Cause? Nay, they have gone so far upon the Strength of Dr. _S----_ Convocation-Title, in Opposition to that of Parliament, that since the good Queen is dead, and the Consent of the People, according to them, null and void; they have left the King a bare Possession, without any Title at all.