An Answer to Vox Cleri, &c
Subtitle: Examining the Reasons against making any Alterations and Abatements, in order to a Comprehension, and shewing the Expediency thereof
By: [By William Payne, D.D.].
Publisher: Printed for Brabazon Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill
Published: 1690
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Long, Thomas, -- 1621-1707.
Notes: Authors supplied by H&L and Wing.

At end of text, booksellers' 'Advertisements'; [Thomas Long's] 'Vox Cleri', condemning alterations in the liturgy (of which two editions appeared in 1690), called forth a mass of smaller writings, of which the principal was by Dr. William Payne' [DNB]; 'Areply to "Vox Cleri"; or, The sense of the clergy , concerning the making of alterations in the existing liturgy", by Thomas Long [B.L.]

William Payne 'strongly supported the comprehension scheme, brought forward in 1689 for facilitating the inclusion of protestant dissenters in the established church. The proposal was opposed, among others, by Thomas Long, whose pamphlet on the subject, entitled 'Vox Cleri', was answered by Payne in an 'Answer to Vox Cleri' (1690). Being subsequently denounced by the nonjurors for his latitudinarian views, Payne in 1691 published a defence of his position, entitled 'An Answer to Dr. William Payne, concerning Non-resistance and other Reasons for not taking the Oath' [DNB]

Wing P896; McAlpin, IV, 394; with note: 'False title. A1; title, A2'; the Percy copy has one unsigned leaf ? [A2] followed by B1 with beginning of text.