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             An argument for union taken from the true interest of those dissenters in England who profess and call themselves Protestants.
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           AN
           ARGUMENT
           FOR
           UNION
           ,
           Taken
           from
           the
           
             True
             Interest
          
           OF
           THOSE
           DISSENTERS
           in
           ENGLAND
           ,
           Who
           Profess
           ,
           and
           call
           themselves
           PROTESTANTS
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             Tho.
             Basset
          
           ,
           at
           the
           George
           in
           
             Fleet-street
             ;
             Benj.
             Tooke
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Ship
           in
           St.
           Pauls
           Church-yard
           ;
           and
           
             F.
             Gardiner
          
           ,
           at
           the
           White-Horse
           in
           Ludgate-street
           ,
           1683.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           THE
           CONTENTS
           .
        
         
           
             DIssentions
             are
             dangerous
             to
             the
             Church
             .
             Page
             1.
             
          
           
             If
             the
             Church
             should
             be
             dissettled
             by
             such
             means
             ,
             our
             Dissenters
             would
             not
             obtain
             their
             Ends.
             p.
             2.
             
          
           
             Their
             First
             ,
             or
             Subordinate
             End
             ,
             is
             the
             Establishing
             of
             themselves
             .
             p.
             3.
             
          
           
             The
             first
             Branch
             of
             it
             is
             the
             Establishing
             themselves
             as
             a
             National
             Church
             ,
             which
             cannot
             be
             hop'd
             for
             ,
             either
             First
             by
             all
             of
             them
             ;
             p.
             4.
             
          
           
             Or
             ,
             Secondly
             ,
             by
             the
             Prevalent
             Party
             amongst
             them
             ,
             p.
             5.
             
          
           
             This
             is
             prov'd
             First
             ,
             from
             several
             Reasons
             .
             p.
             5
             ,
             6.
             
          
           
             Secondly
             ,
             from
             the
             history
             of
             our
             late
             Revolutions
             .
             
               p.
               6.
               to
            
             10.
             
          
           
             After
             which
             it
             is
             shewed
             ,
             That
             if
             they
             could
             not
             then
             gain
             their
             point
             ,
             they
             can
             ,
             much
             less
             ,
             do
             it
             now
             .
             
               p.
               10
               ,
               &c.
            
             
          
           
             The
             second
             Branch
             of
             their
             Subordinate
             End
             ,
             is
             the
             settling
             of
             themselves
             by
             mutual
             Sufferance
             .
             p.
             12.
             
          
           
             This
             is
             proved
             still
             more
             improbable
             .
             p.
             12
             ,
             13.
             
          
           
             Also
             ,
             it
             is
             shewed
             that
             Parties
             tolerate
             each
             other
             no
             longer
             then
             one
             gets
             Power
             to
             suppress
             the
             rest
             ,
             with
             publick
             safety
             .
             
               p.
               14.
               to
            
             18.
             
          
           
             The
             Second
             End
             of
             the
             Dissenters
             is
             more
             Principal
             ,
             and
             the
             first
             part
             of
             it
             is
             the
             keeping
             out
             of
             
               Popery
               .
               p.
            
             18.
             
          
           
             That
             this
             End
             cannot
             be
             obtained
             by
             Dissenting
             from
             our
             Church
             ,
             is
             shewed
          
           
             From
             Reason
             .
             
               p.
               18.
               to
               p.
            
             25.
             
          
           
             From
             the
             History
             of
             the
             late
             Times
             .
             
               p.
               25
               ,
               &c.
            
             
          
           
             From
             the
             Iudgment
             and
             Methods
             of
             the
             Papists
             themselves
             .
             p.
             28
             ,
             29.
             
          
           
             
             The
             second
             part
             of
             the
             more
             Principal
             End
             of
             the
             Dissenters
             ,
             is
             the
             advancing
             of
             Pure
             Religion
             .
             p.
             30.
             
          
           
             But
             ,
             there
             are
             Reasons
             to
             perswade
             us
             that
             upon
             the
             Dissettlement
             of
             this
             Church
             ,
             Religion
             would
             not
             be
             advanced
             ,
             but
             embased
             .
             
               p.
               30
               ,
               34.
               to
            
             37.
             
          
           
             And
             the
             History
             of
             the
             late
             Troubles
             sheweth
             this
             to
             have
             been
             so
             in
             Fact.
             p.
             33
             ,
             34
             ,
             38
             ,
             39.
             
          
           
             By
             virtue
             of
             the
             Premisses
             ,
             Dissenters
             are
             perswaded
             to
             consider
             seriously
             the
             state
             of
             things
             in
             this
             time
             of
             Prosecution
             ,
             and
             to
             hold
             constant
             Communion
             with
             our
             Church
             ,
             with
             which
             the
             wisest
             and
             best
             of
             them
             hold
             occasional
             Communion
             ;
             that
             the
             blessed
             Ends
             of
             Truth
             ,
             Holiness
             ,
             and
             Peace
             ,
             may
             be
             obtained
             .
             p.
             40
             ,
             41
             ,
             42
             ,
             43.
             
          
        
      
       
         
           ERRATA
           .
        
         
           PAge
           5.
           
           Line
           5.
           for
           Perswasive
           read
           Persuasion
           .
           p.
           12.
           l.
           5.
           for
           Laxation
           read
           Luxation
           .
           p.
           30.
           l.
           22.
           for
           Opposed
           read
           Proposed
           .
           p.
           36.
           l.
           17
           ,
           for
           ties
           read
           Impurities
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           AN
           ARGUMENT
           FOR
           UNION
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           I
           Take
           it
           for
           granted
           (
           seeing
           a
           Truth
           so
           very
           plain
           needs
           no
           formal
           Proof
           )
           that
           the
           ready
           way
           to
           overthrow
           a
           Church
           ,
           
           is
           ,
           first
           to
           divide
           it
           .
           It
           is
           ,
           also
           ,
           too
           manifest
           ,
           that
           our
           Dissentions
           are
           Divisions
           ,
           properly
           so
           called
           ,
           or
           Publick
           Ruptures
           .
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           notwithstanding
           these
           Ruptures
           ,
           the
           Church
           still
           lives
           ,
           and
           ,
           in
           some
           good
           measure
           ,
           prospers
           :
           But
           how
           Mortal
           these
           Breaches
           may
           ,
           at
           last
           ,
           prove
           ,
           through
           their
           Continuance
           and
           Increase
           ,
           a
           Man
           ,
           who
           has
           but
           a
           Competency
           of
           Judgment
           ,
           may
           easily
           foretel
           .
           It
           is
           ,
           therefore
           ,
           the
           business
           of
           every
           Good
           Man
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           in
           him
           lies
           ,
           to
           disswade
           ,
           with
           Prudent
           Zeal
           ,
           from
           these
           Divisions
           ;
           which
           are
           ,
           in
           their
           Nature
           so
           uncharitable
           ,
           and
           so
           perillous
           in
           their
           Consequence
           .
        
         
         
           Now
           ,
           one
           way
           of
           moving
           Men
           to
           desist
           from
           their
           Undertakings
           ,
           is
           ,
           the
           shewing
           of
           them
           ,
           with
           calmness
           of
           Temper
           ,
           and
           plainness
           of
           Reasoning
           ,
           that
           their
           Ends
           are
           not
           likely
           to
           be
           obtain'd
           :
           As
           ,
           also
           that
           ,
           by
           the
           Means
           they
           use
           ,
           they
           will
           bring
           upon
           themselves
           those
           very
           Evils
           which
           they
           fear
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           removal
           of
           which
           they
           have
           Expectation
           .
        
         
           Wherefore
           ,
           I
           have
           chosen
           an
           Argument
           of
           this
           Nature
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           persuading
           of
           Dissenters
           to
           joyn
           in
           the
           Exercise
           of
           
             Constant
             Communion
          
           with
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           And
           I
           have
           ,
           here
           ,
           endeavoured
           to
           make
           it
           evident
           to
           them
           ;
           that
           ,
           in
           attempting
           to
           pull
           down
           this
           
             Establish'd
             Church
          
           ,
           they
           ,
           unwarily
           ,
           turn
           their
           own
           force
           against
           themselves
           ,
           and
           prepare
           Materials
           for
           the
           Tombs
           of
           their
           own
           Parties
           .
        
         
           This
           Argument
           is
           ,
           here
           ,
           offer'd
           to
           them
           in
           the
           Spirit
           of
           Christian
           Charity
           ,
           and
           without
           any
           design
           of
           exposing
           or
           exasperating
           any
           person
           who
           differs
           ,
           is
           his
           Notions
           ,
           from
           the
           sence
           of
           the
           Writer
           .
           For
           he
           had
           rather
           lie
           at
           the
           Feet
           of
           the
           meanest
           Man
           who
           is
           overtaken
           with
           an
           errour
           ,
           then
           spurn
           insolently
           against
           him
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           in
           the
           managing
           of
           this
           Argument
           ,
           it
           is
           necessary
           to
           shew
           two
           things
           .
           
        
         
           First
           ,
           
             What
             those
             Ends
             are
             which
             are
             proposed
             by
             the
             Dissenters
             ?
          
           I
           mean
           ,
           those
           which
           seem
           ,
           with
           any
           tolerable
           colour
           of
           Reason
           ,
           fit
           to
           be
           proposed
           ;
           and
           which
           are
           designed
           by
           the
           better
           and
           wiser
           of
           that
           number
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           What
           Reasons
           may
           make
           it
           manifest
           that
           the
           Ends
           which
           they
           propose
           ,
           can
           never
           be
           procured
           by
           the
           Dissettlement
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           These
           things
           being
           shewed
           ,
           there
           shall
           follow
           such
           a
           Conclusion
           ,
           as
           is
           suitable
           to
           the
           Premisses
           .
        
         
         
           First
           ,
           
           For
           the
           Ends
           proposed
           by
           the
           more
           
             Prudent
             Dissenters
          
           ,
           they
           are
           of
           
             two
             kinds
          
           .
        
         
           The
           First
           End
           is
           Subordinate
           .
        
         
           The
           Second
           is
           Principal
           :
           Or
           the
           End
           to
           which
           the
           former
           serventh
           in
           the
           quality
           of
           the
           Means
           .
        
         
           The
           
             Subordinate
             End
          
           is
           ,
           the
           
             Establishing
             of
             themselves
          
           .
           And
           it
           hath
           two
           Branches
           .
        
         
           Either
           ,
           the
           setling
           themselves
           
             (
             First
          
           )
           as
           a
           
             National
             Church
          
           :
        
         
           Or
           ,
           
             (
             Secondly
          
           )
           as
           several
           distinct
           Churches
           ,
           giving
           undisturbed
           Toleration
           to
           one
           another
           .
        
         
           For
           I
           am
           not
           willing
           to
           believe
           all
           of
           them
           to
           be
           given
           up
           to
           such
           a
           degree
           of
           Infatuation
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           intent
           only
           upon
           beating
           down
           ,
           without
           considering
           what
           is
           fit
           to
           be
           set
           up
           .
           That
           is
           the
           way
           of
           Tempests
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           Builders
           .
        
         
           The
           Principal
           is
           ,
           the
           further
           Advancement
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           .
           This
           also
           ,
           hath
           two
           parts
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             The
             Removal
             of
             Popery
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             The
             Introduction
             of
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             in
             greater
             Purity
             and
             Perfection
             ,
             then
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             is
             (
             in
             their
             Opinion
             )
             as
             yet
             ,
             arrived
             at
             ,
             or
             can
             probably
             attain
             to
             by
             vertue
             of
             its
             present
             Constitution
             .
          
        
         
           If
           there
           be
           amongst
           them
           ,
           Men
           disturbed
           in
           their
           Understandings
           ,
           by
           the
           heat
           of
           Enthusiasm
           ;
           if
           there
           be
           amongst
           them
           ,
           any
           Men
           whose
           Wisdom
           is
           sensual
           and
           worldly
           ;
           who
           presumptuously
           make
           Heaven
           stoop
           to
           Earth
           ,
           and
           conceal
           their
           private
           and
           secular
           Designs
           under
           the
           venerable
           name
           of
           
             Pure
             Religion
          
           ;
           I
           do
           not
           concern
           my self
           with
           them
           in
           this
           
             Persuasive
             to
             Vnion
          
           .
           The
           former
           cannot
           ,
           and
           the
           latter
           will
           not
           be
           convinc'd
           :
           For
           there
           is
           no
           Ear
           so
           deaf
           ,
           as
           that
           which
           Interest
           hath
           stopp'd
           .
           And
           there
           is
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           earnest
           Truth
           suggested
           in
           the
           Jocular
           Speech
           of
           Iames
           the
           fifth
           of
           Scotland
           ;
           who
           ,
           when
           his
           Treasurer
           desired
           
           liberty
           to
           be
           plain
           with
           him
           ,
           *
           drew
           out
           his
           Sword
           ,
           and
           said
           merrily
           to
           him
           ,
           
             I
             shall
             slay
             thee
             ,
             if
             thou
             speak
             against
             my
             profit
             .
          
        
         
           The
           First
           Branch
           of
           the
           first
           ,
           
           or
           
             Subordinate
             End
          
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           is
           ,
           
             the
             Establishing
             of
             themselves
             as
             a
             National
             Church
             .
          
        
         
           This
           is
           either
           designed
           by
           
             All
             of
             them
          
           ,
           or
           by
           a
           Party
           which
           believeth
           it self
           to
           be
           most
           sober
           ,
           and
           most
           numerous
           ,
           and
           most
           likely
           to
           prevail
           over
           the
           rest
           ;
           so
           far
           at
           least
           as
           to
           become
           the
           State-Party
           .
        
         
           For
           
             All
             of
             them
          
           to
           expect
           to
           be
           united
           in
           one
           Uniform
           Body
           ,
           is
           to
           hope
           ,
           not
           only
           against
           the
           Grounds
           of
           Hope
           ,
           but
           of
           Possibility
           .
        
         
           For
           the
           Parties
           are
           very
           many
           ,
           and
           very
           differing
           ,
           (
           or
           rather
           very
           contrary
           )
           and
           they
           cannot
           frame
           amongst
           them
           ,
           any
           common
           Scheme
           in
           which
           their
           Assents
           can
           be
           united
           .
        
         
           What
           Communion
           (
           for
           Example
           sake
           )
           can
           the
           Presbyterians
           have
           with
           
             Arians
             ,
             Socinians
             ,
             Anabaptists
             ,
             Fifth-Monarchy-Men
             ,
             Sensual
             Millenaries
             ,
             Behmenists
             ,
             Familists
             ,
             Seekers
             ,
             Antinomians
             ,
             Ranters
             ,
             Sabbatarians
             ,
             Quakers
             ,
             Muggletonians
             ,
             Sweet-Singers
             .
          
           These
           may
           associate
           in
           a
           Caravan
           ,
           but
           cannot
           joyn
           in
           the
           Communion
           of
           a
           Church
           .
           Such
           a
           Church
           would
           be
           like
           the
           
             Family
             of
             Errour
          
           and
           her
           Daughters
           ,
           described
           in
           Mr.
           
           Spencer's
           Fairy-Queen
           ,
           of
           which
           none
           were
           alike
           ,
           unless
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           all
           deform'd
           :
           And
           how
           shall
           the
           
             Christians
             of
             this
             present
             Church
          
           be
           disposed
           of
           to
           their
           just
           satisfaction
           ?
           They
           will
           never
           Incorporate
           with
           such
           a
           Medly
           of
           Religion
           ;
           and
           they
           are
           such
           ,
           both
           for
           their
           Quality
           and
           their
           number
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           be
           beneath
           a
           very
           serious
           Consideration
           .
        
         
         
           
             For
             the
             Prevalent
             Party
          
           ,
           there
           seemeth
           to
           be
           both
           Reason
           ,
           and
           Experience
           ,
           against
           their
           hopes
           of
           Establishing
           themselves
           as
           a
           
             National
             Church
          
           .
        
         
           
             These
             Reasons
          
           ,
           amongst
           others
           ,
           have
           moved
           me
           to
           entertain
           this
           Persuasive
           concerning
           them
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           Such
           a
           Party
           not
           maintaining
           
             Episcopal
             Government
          
           ,
           which
           hath
           obtained
           here
           from
           the
           Times
           of
           the
           Britaine
           's
           (
           who
           in
           the
           Apostolical
           Age
           ,
           received
           the
           
             Christian
             Religion
          
           )
           and
           which
           is
           so
           agreeable
           to
           the
           Scheme
           of
           the
           Monarchy
           ;
           It
           is
           not
           probable
           that
           they
           shall
           easily
           procure
           an
           exchange
           of
           it
           for
           a
           newer
           Model
           ,
           by
           the
           general
           consent
           of
           Church
           or
           State.
           I
           may
           add
           ,
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           whose
           Genius
           renders
           them
           tenacious
           of
           their
           Antient
           Customs
           .
        
         
           Again
           ,
           All
           the
           Parties
           amongst
           us
           ,
           have
           of
           late
           declared
           ,
           for
           Mutual
           Forbearance
           .
           They
           cannot
           ,
           therefore
           ,
           be
           consistent
           with
           themselves
           ,
           if
           they
           frame
           such
           a
           National
           Constitution
           ,
           by
           which
           any
           Man
           ,
           who
           Dissents
           from
           it
           ,
           shall
           be
           otherwise
           dealt
           with
           ,
           then
           by
           personal
           Conference
           ;
           which
           ,
           also
           ,
           he
           must
           have
           liberty
           not
           to
           admit
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           persuaded
           it
           is
           not
           fit
           or
           safe
           for
           him
           .
           And
           such
           a
           Body
           without
           any
           other
           nerves
           for
           its
           strength
           and
           motion
           ;
           for
           the
           Encouragement
           of
           those
           who
           are
           Members
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           Discouragement
           of
           those
           who
           refuse
           its
           Communion
           ;
           will
           not
           long
           hold
           together
           :
           Nor
           hath
           it
           means
           in
           it
           ,
           sufficient
           for
           the
           Ends
           to
           which
           it
           is
           designed
           .
           And
           indeed
           by
           this
           means
           ,
           the
           Spiritual
           Power
           of
           Excommunication
           will
           be
           rendred
           of
           none
           Effect
           .
           For
           ,
           what
           Punishment
           ,
           what
           Shame
           ,
           what
           Check
           ,
           will
           it
           be
           to
           Cross
           and
           Perverse
           Men
           ,
           if
           being
           shut
           out
           of
           the
           
             National
             Church
          
           ,
           they
           may
           with
           open
           Arms
           and
           with
           Applause
           due
           to
           real
           Converts
           ,
           be
           received
           into
           this
           or
           the
           other
           particular
           Congregation
           ,
           as
           it
           best
           suiteth
           with
           their
           good
           likeing
           ?
        
         
         
           Furthermore
           ,
           It
           is
           commonly
           said
           ,
           that
           since
           the
           Presbyterians
           have
           gathered
           Churches
           out
           of
           Churches
           ,
           there
           are
           not
           many
           true
           and
           proper
           Disciplinarians
           in
           England
           .
        
         
           If
           it
           be
           so
           ,
           then
           Independency
           is
           amongst
           Dissenters
           ,
           the
           prevalent
           side
           ;
           and
           I
           know
           not
           how
           a
           
             National
             Church
          
           can
           be
           made
           up
           of
           Separate
           Independent
           Churches
           ;
           for
           each
           Congregation
           is
           a
           Church
           by
           it self
           ,
           and
           hath
           ,
           besides
           the
           general
           Covenant
           of
           Baptism
           ,
           a
           particular
           Church-Covenant
           ;
           and
           therefore
           ,
           it
           is
           difficult
           to
           imagine
           how
           all
           of
           them
           can
           be
           ,
           by
           any
           Coherence
           of
           the
           Parts
           ,
           united
           into
           one
           intire
           Society
           .
        
         
           But
           ,
           be
           it
           supposed
           ,
           that
           the
           Disciplinarians
           are
           of
           all
           Parties
           ,
           the
           most
           numerous
           and
           prevalent
           ;
           yet
           Experience
           sheweth
           how
           hard
           a
           Work
           it
           is
           for
           all
           of
           them
           to
           form
           themselves
           into
           a
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           In
           the
           late
           times
           of
           Publick
           disquiet
           ,
           they
           had
           great
           Power
           ;
           they
           had
           in
           humane
           appearance
           ,
           fair
           and
           promising
           Opportunities
           ;
           and
           yet
           there
           grew
           up
           at
           their
           Roots
           another
           Party
           ,
           which
           ,
           in
           Conclusion
           ,
           over-dropped
           them
           ,
           and
           brought
           their
           Interest
           into
           a
           sensible
           decay
           ;
           it
           being
           the
           nature
           of
           every
           Faction
           ,
           upon
           Victory
           obtain'd
           over
           their
           Common
           Adversary
           ,
           to
           subdivide
           .
           In
           the
           Year
           1640
           ,
           *
           
             The
             Commons
             had
             a
             debate
             about
             a
             new
             form
             of
             Ecclesiastical
             Iurisdiction
             :
             And
             they
             agreed
             that
             every
             Shire
             should
             be
             a
             several
             Diocess
             .
             That
             there
             should
             be
             constituted
             ,
             in
             each
             Shire
             ,
             a
          
           Presbytery
           
             of
             Twelve
             Divines
             ,
             with
             a
             President
             as
             a
             Bishop
             over
             them
             ,
             That
             this
             President
             with
             the
             Assistance
             of
             some
             of
             the
          
           Presbyters
           ,
           
             should
             Ordain
             ,
             Suspend
             ,
             Deprive
             ,
             Degrade
             ,
             Excommunicate
             .
             That
             there
             should
             be
             a
          
           Diocesan
           Synod
           
             once
             a
             Year
             ;
             and
             each
             third
             Year
             ,
             a
          
           National
           Synod
           .
           
             A
             while
             after
          
           ,
           *
           
             it
             was
             voted
             by
             them
             ,
             that
             ,
             to
             have
             a
          
           Presbytery
           
             in
             the
             Church
             ,
             was
             according
             to
             the
             Word
             of
             God.
             
          
        
         
         
           Many
           other
           Steps
           were
           made
           in
           favour
           of
           the
           Discipline
           .
           The
           Common-Prayer-Book
           was
           removed
           ;
           an
           Assembly
           of
           Divines
           was
           Established
           :
           Their
           Directory
           was
           introduced
           ;
           they
           were
           united
           in
           the
           Bond
           of
           a
           solemn
           League
           and
           Covenant
           .
           There
           was
           sent
           up
           *
           from
           the
           County
           of
           Lancaster
           ,
           a
           Petition
           signed
           with
           12000
           Hands
           for
           the
           settling
           of
           Classes
           in
           those
           parts
           .
           A
           Petition
           of
           the
           like
           importance
           was
           framed
           by
           divers
           of
           the
           Common-Council
           of
           London
           .
           
           They
           seemed
           nigh
           the
           gaining
           of
           their
           Point
           ;
           yet
           they
           widely
           missed
           of
           it
           .
           There
           was
           in
           the
           Assembly
           it self
           ,
           a
           ferment
           of
           Dissension
           .
           Mr.
           Sympson
           ,
           and
           some
           others
           ,
           favoured
           an
           Independent
           ;
           Mr.
           Selden
           and
           some
           of
           his
           Admirers
           ,
           an
           Erastian
           Interest
           .
           There
           was
           a
           Party
           in
           the
           Nation
           who
           were
           then
           called
           
             Dissenting
             Brethren
          
           ;
           and
           to
           these
           the
           Directory
           was
           as
           offensive
           ,
           as
           the
           Canons
           and
           Liturgy
           had
           been
           to
           those
           of
           the
           Discipline
           .
           They
           drew
           up
           Reasons
           *
           against
           
             the
             Directory
             of
             Church
             Government
             by
          
           Presbyters
           .
        
         
           They
           afterwards
           Printed
           an
           open
           Remonstrance
           against
           Presbytery
           ,
           
           
             of
             which
             the
             Assembly
             complain'd
             to
             the
             House
             ,
             as
             of
             a
             Scandalous
             Libel
             .
          
           And
           there
           were
           those
           who
           Reproach'd
           the
           Presbyterians
           ,
           in
           the
           same
           Phrases
           in
           which
           they
           had
           given
           vent
           to
           their
           displeasure
           against
           the
           Liturgy
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           The
           Ministers
           of
           Lancashire
           *
           complain'd
           concerning
           them
           ,
           
             That
             they
             had
             compared
             the
          
           Covenant
           
             to
             the
          
           Alcoran
           
             of
             the
          
           Turks
           ,
           and
           Mass
           
             of
             the
          
           Papists
           ,
           and
           Service-book
           
             of
             the
             Prelates
          
           .
           As
           likewise
           ,
           that
           they
           said
           ,
           
             it
             was
             a
          
           Brazen-Serpent
           
             fit
             to
             be
             broken
             in
             pieces
             and
             ground
             to
             Powder
             ,
             rather
             then
             that
             Men
             should
             fall
             down
             and
             Worship
             it
             .
          
        
         
           Amongst
           the
           Disciplinarians
           ,
           some
           were
           confident
           of
           Success
           .
           
             One
             of
             them
          
           *
           (
           for
           he
           was
           not
           then
           gone
           over
           to
           the
           Part
           of
           the
           Independents
           )
           expressed
           his
           assurance
           
           in
           these
           most
           unbecoming
           Words
           ,
           before
           the
           Commons
           .
           
             It
             will
          
           (
           said
           he
           )
           
             bring
             such
             a
             Blot
             on
             God
             as
             He
             shall
             never
             wipe
             out
             ,
             if
             your
             poor
             Prayers
             should
             be
             turn'd
             into
             your
             own
             bosomes
             ;
             that
             Prayer
             for
          
           Reformation
           .
           A
           Speech
           not
           fit
           to
           have
           been
           repeated
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           not
           necessary
           to
           learn
           Sobriety
           of
           Wisdom
           from
           the
           Remembrances
           of
           Extravagance
           in
           former
           Times
           .
        
         
           Others
           acknowledg'd
           their
           hopes
           ,
           but
           did
           not
           dissemble
           their
           Fears
           .
           
             Six
             years
             ago
          
           (
           said
           a
           person
           eminent
           *
           amongst
           them
           )
           
             after
             this
             Parliament
             had
             sate
             a
             while
             ,
             it
             was
             generally
             believ'd
             that
             [
             the
             Woman
             ,
             the
             Church
             ]
             was
             fallen
             into
             her
             Travel
             —
             but
             she
             continues
             still
             in
             pain
             .
             Insomuch
             ,
             as
             they
             begin
             to
             think
             she
             hath
             not
             gone
             her
             full
             time
             ,
             and
             earnestly
             desire
             she
             may
             ;
             because
             they
             fear
             nothing
             more
             then
             an
          
           abortive
           Reformation
           .
        
         
           Others
           did
           openly
           confess
           that
           their
           hopes
           were
           not
           answer'd
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           State
           of
           Religion
           was
           much
           declined
           .
           The
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Province
           of
           London
           *
           used
           upon
           this
           occasion
           ,
           these
           passionate
           words
           .
           
             Instead
             of
             a
          
           Reformation
           ,
           
             we
             may
             say
             with
             Sighs
             ,
             what
             our
             Enemies
             said
             of
             us
             heretofore
             with
             scorn
             ,
             we
             have
             a
          
           Deformation
           
             in
             Religion
          
           .
        
         
           Those
           Independents
           who
           adher'd
           to
           that
           part
           of
           the
           House
           which
           joyned
           with
           the
           Army
           ,
           prevailed
           for
           a
           Season
           ,
           but
           they
           also
           were
           disturb'd
           by
           those
           who
           went
           under
           the
           Names
           of
           
             Lilburnists
             ,
             Levellers
             ,
             Agitators
          
           .
           ‖
           Then
           likewise
           ,
           
             Gerard
             Wynstanley
          
           *
           publish'd
           the
           Principles
           of
           Quakerism
           ,
           discoursing
           (
           or
           rather
           ,
           repeating
           the
           Dreams
           of
           his
           Imagination
           )
           in
           such
           Expressions
           as
           these
           .
           
             If
             you
             look
             for
             the
             Resurrection
             of
          
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           
             you
             must
             know
             that
             the
             Spirit
             within
             the
          
           Flesh
           is
           the
           Jesus
           Christ.
           —
           
             Every
             Man
             hath
             the
          
           light
           
             of
             the
             Father
          
           within
           himself
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           the
           
             Mighty
             Man
             Christ
             Iesus
          
           .
           Then
           Enthusiasm
           ,
           excited
           in
           part
           by
           the
           common
           
           pretence
           of
           an
           extraordinary
           Light
           ,
           revealed
           (
           as
           of
           a
           suddain
           )
           in
           those
           days
           in
           England
           ,
           brake
           forth
           into
           open
           distraction
           .
           Then
           
             Ioseph
             Salmon
          
           ,
           a
           present
           Member
           of
           the
           Army
           ,
           publish'd
           his
           Blasphemies
           ,
           and
           defended
           his
           Immoralities
           .
           He
           justify'd
           himself
           ,
           and
           those
           of
           his
           way
           ,
           saying
           ,
           *
           That
           
             it
             was
             God
             who
             did
             Swear
             in
             Them
             ,
          
           and
           that
           
             it
             was
             their
             Liberty
             to
             keep
             Company
             with
             Women
             for
             their
             Lust.
             Wyke
             ,
          
           his
           Disciple
           *
           ,
           kissed
           a
           Soldier
           three
           times
           ,
           and
           said
           ,
           
             I
             breath
             the
             Spirit
             of
             God
             into
             thee
             .
             Salmon
          
           himself
           printed
           a
           Pamphlet
           call'd
           ,
           
             a
             Rout
          
           ,
           in
           which
           he
           set
           forth
           his
           villainous
           self
           as
           the
           Christ
           of
           God
           ,
           saying
           ,
           *
           
             I
             am
             willing
             to
             become
             Sin
             for
             you
             ,
             though
          
           the
           Lord
           in
           me
           
             knows
             no
             Sin.
             We
             love
             to
             sweat
             drops
             of
             Bloud
             under
             all
             mens
             offences
             .
             —
             We
             shall
             see
             of
             the
             Travel
             of
             our
          
           Souls
           .
           Enthusiasm
           ,
           tho'
           not
           in
           this
           rankness
           of
           it
           ,
           was
           now
           openly
           favour'd
           by
           Cromwell
           himself
           ;
           who
           ,
           together
           with
           six
           Soldiers
           ,
           prayed
           and
           preached
           at
           Whitehal
           .
           *
           His
           own
           temper
           was
           warmed
           with
           fits
           of
           Enthusiasm
           .
           ‖
           And
           he
           confess'd
           it
           to
           a
           Person
           of
           Condition
           †
           (
           from
           whom
           I
           receiv'd
           it
           ,
           as
           did
           others
           ,
           yet
           living
           )
           that
           he
           pray'd
           according
           to
           extraordinary
           Impulse
           .
           And
           that
           ,
           not
           feeling
           such
           Impulse
           (
           which
           he
           call'd
           Supernatural
           )
           he
           did
           forbear
           to
           pray
           ,
           oftentimes
           ,
           for
           several
           days
           together
           .
        
         
           In
           Process
           of
           time
           ,
           his
           
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           and
           he
           himself
           were
           publickly
           disturb'd
           by
           that
           wild
           Spirit
           ,
           in
           the
           raising
           of
           which
           they
           had
           been
           so
           unhappily
           instrumental
           .
           A
           Quaker
           came
           to
           the
           door
           of
           the
           House
           *
           ,
           and
           drew
           his
           Sword
           ,
           and
           cut
           those
           nigh
           him
           ,
           and
           said
           ,
           
             He
             was
             inspir'd
             by
             the
             Holy
             Spirit
             to
             kill
             every
             Man
             who
             sate
             in
             that
             Convention
             .
          
           And
           he
           himself
           was
           not
           only
           conspir'd
           against
           by
           those
           who
           call'd
           themselves
           ,
           
             the
             Free
             and
             Well-affected
             people
             of
          
           England
           ,
           *
           ,
           but
           openly
           bespattered
           by
           the
           Ink
           of
           the
           Quakers
           in
           several
           Pamphlets
           ,
           
           ‖
           and
           by
           their
           Clamours
           ,
           affronted
           in
           his
           own
           Chappel
           ;
           where
           before
           his
           face
           ,
           they
           gave
           bold
           interruption
           to
           his
           Preachers
           .
           †
        
         
           Other
           Historical
           Memorials
           might
           be
           here
           produced
           ,
           relating
           to
           the
           hopeful
           Rise
           ,
           and
           mighty
           Progress
           ,
           and
           equal
           Declension
           of
           the
           
             Disciplinarian
             Party
          
           .
           But
           ,
           in
           such
           cases
           ,
           I
           choose
           rather
           to
           take
           of
           my
           Pen
           ,
           then
           to
           lean
           too
           hard
           upon
           it
           .
           Yet
           the
           nature
           of
           my
           Argument
           did
           necessarily
           lead
           me
           to
           the
           former
           Remarks
           ;
           and
           if
           useful
           Truth
           smarts
           ,
           let
           Guilt
           suffer
           a
           Cure
           ,
           and
           not
           kick
           against
           the
           Charitable
           Reporter
           .
        
         
           In
           Sum
           ,
           the
           longer
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           was
           dissettled
           ,
           the
           greater
           daily
           grew
           the
           confusion
           ;
           and
           the
           division
           of
           Sects
           was
           multiplyed
           not
           unlike
           to
           that
           of
           Winds
           in
           the
           Marriners
           Compass
           ,
           in
           which
           Artists
           have
           increas'd
           the
           Partitions
           ,
           from
           four
           to
           two
           and
           thirty
           .
           Insomuch
           ,
           that
           the
           very
           Distractions
           which
           were
           among
           us
           did
           ,
           in
           some
           measure
           ,
           prepare
           the
           way
           for
           the
           return
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           Restitution
           of
           the
           Church
           :
           men
           finding
           no
           other
           common
           Bottom
           on
           which
           the
           Interests
           of
           Religion
           and
           civil
           Peace
           might
           be
           established
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           if
           the
           Dissenters
           could
           not
           then
           ,
           when
           so
           fair
           Opportunities
           were
           in
           their
           hands
           ,
           carry
           on
           their
           cause
           to
           any
           tolerable
           Settlement
           ;
           much
           less
           may
           they
           now
           hope
           to
           do
           it
           .
           For
           there
           are
           now
           ,
           many
           hinderances
           which
           did
           not
           then
           lie
           cross
           their
           way
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           The
           Platform
           of
           Discipline
           ,
           so
           highly
           applauded
           ,
           so
           earnestly
           contended
           for
           ,
           during
           the
           Reigns
           of
           
             Queen
             Elizabeth
          
           and
           King
           Iames
           ,
           hath
           now
           been
           in
           part
           tryed
           ;
           and
           the
           presence
           of
           it
           (
           to
           omit
           other
           Reasons
           )
           hath
           abated
           the
           Reverence
           some
           had
           for
           it
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           There
           is
           not
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           such
           an
           Union
           amongst
           Dissenters
           ,
           as
           appeared
           at
           the
           beginning
           of
           our
           late
           Troubles
           .
           The
           number
           of
           those
           Dissenters
           
           who
           were
           not
           for
           the
           Discipline
           ,
           was
           then
           very
           inconsiderable
           .
           But
           in
           a
           few
           years
           ,
           they
           brake
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           ,
           into
           Fractions
           of
           Fractions
           .
           Insomuch
           ,
           that
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Province
           of
           London
           ,
           expressed
           the
           Estate
           of
           things
           in
           the
           Year
           47
           ,
           on
           this
           manner
           .
           *
           
             Instead
             of
             Vnity
             and
             Vniformity
             ,
             in
             Matters
             of
             Religion
             ,
             we
             are
             torn
             in
             pieces
             with
             Distractions
             ,
             Schisms
             ,
             Separations
             ,
             Divisions
             ,
             and
             Subdivisions
             .
          
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           Those
           who
           then
           favoured
           the
           Discipline
           ,
           are
           much
           departed
           from
           their
           former
           Scheme
           of
           Government
           ,
           inclining
           to
           Independency
           ,
           which
           they
           once
           denyed
           to
           be
           
             God's
             Ordinance
          
           *
           ,
           and
           pleading
           for
           Toleration
           ,
           which
           they
           once
           called
           ,
           The
           
             last
             and
             strongest
             hold
             of
          
           Satan
           .
           ‖
        
         
           Fourthly
           ,
           At
           the
           beginning
           of
           our
           Disturbances
           ,
           many
           Men
           of
           Quality
           ,
           and
           such
           who
           had
           a
           Zeal
           of
           God
           ,
           favour'd
           the
           Settlement
           of
           the
           Discipline
           in
           the
           simplicity
           of
           their
           hearts
           .
           They
           had
           not
           then
           seen
           any
           Revolutions
           ;
           they
           had
           not
           discovered
           the
           secret
           Springs
           of
           publick
           Motions
           ;
           nor
           the
           vile
           Interests
           of
           many
           men
           which
           lay
           concealed
           under
           the
           disguise
           of
           
             Pure
             Religion
          
           .
           They
           saw
           (
           what
           all
           Men
           may
           see
           in
           all
           times
           )
           abuses
           in
           Church
           and
           State
           ;
           and
           the
           very
           name
           of
           Reformation
           was
           sweet
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           sincere
           zeal
           and
           the
           power
           of
           these
           Men
           ,
           the
           Discipline
           could
           not
           long
           be
           carried
           on
           ;
           much
           less
           could
           it
           be
           perfected
           by
           them
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           ,
           therefore
           ,
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           a
           much
           greater
           Improbability
           of
           Success
           in
           the
           like
           design
           .
           For
           many
           considerable
           men
           ,
           Piously
           inclin'd
           ,
           have
           seen
           their
           error
           ;
           and
           will
           not
           be
           a
           second
           time
           engaged
           :
           And
           they
           will
           not
           say
           of
           our
           late
           changes
           ,
           as
           the
           Protector
           did
           ,
           *
           
             That
             they
             were
             the
             Revolutions
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             not
             humane
             designs
             ;
             That
             they
             were
             the
             Revolutions
             of
             Christ
             upon
             whose
             Shoulders
             the
             Government
             was
             stayed
             .
          
           They
           are
           
           not
           of
           the
           same
           mind
           with
           him
           who
           told
           the
           Commons
           ,
           *
           
             That
             if
             they
             acted
             Faith
             ,
             then
             the
             Records
             of
             those
             Times
             on
             their
             side
             ,
             should
             bear
             thus
             to
             all
             Posterity
             ,
             the
             Book
             of
             the
             Wars
             and
             Counsels
             of
             God.
             
          
        
         
           Also
           ,
           since
           those
           days
           ,
           through
           the
           laxation
           of
           Discipline
           during
           the
           licence
           of
           the
           War
           ,
           the
           discovery
           of
           great
           and
           black
           Hypocrisies
           ,
           the
           multiplication
           of
           Parties
           and
           Opinions
           ,
           the
           publishing
           of
           many
           lewd
           and
           irreligious
           books
           from
           Unlicens'd
           Presses
           ,
           Atheism
           hath
           made
           very
           formidable
           Advances
           .
           And
           they
           say
           ,
           that
           some
           undisguised
           Sceptics
           and
           Atheists
           have
           ,
           sometimes
           since
           the
           King's
           Return
           ,
           been
           much
           used
           in
           the
           Cause
           of
           our
           Dissenters
           .
           Now
           ,
           if
           well
           meaning
           zeal
           could
           not
           establish
           the
           Discipline
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           likely
           to
           be
           promoted
           ,
           much
           less
           settled
           ,
           by
           the
           help
           of
           such
           hands
           of
           which
           the
           outsides
           are
           not
           washed
           by
           so
           much
           as
           an
           External
           form
           of
           Godliness
           .
        
         
           The
           
             Second
             Branch
          
           of
           the
           first
           End
           of
           Dissenters
           ,
           
           seems
           more
           improbable
           then
           the
           first
           ,
           viz.
           The
           settling
           themselves
           as
           several
           distinct
           Parties
           ,
           giving
           undisturbed
           Toleration
           to
           each
           other
           .
        
         
           This
           seems
           not
           probable
           upon
           many
           accounts
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           Some
           Dissenters
           believe
           some
           of
           the
           Parties
           to
           be
           incapable
           of
           Forbearance
           ,
           as
           maintaining
           Principles
           destructive
           of
           Christian
           Faith
           and
           Piety
           .
           This
           Opinion
           they
           still
           have
           (
           for
           instance
           sake
           )
           of
           
             Antinomians
             ,
             Quakers
          
           ,
           and
           Muggletonians
           .
        
         
           And
           they
           formerly
           declamed
           against
           the
           Toleration
           of
           divers
           others
           .
           They
           publish'd
           here
           (
           by
           Authority
           so
           called
           )
           an
           Act
           of
           the
           Assembly
           at
           Edinburgh
           ,
           *
           Against
           Erastians
           ,
           Independents
           ,
           and
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           bearing
           (
           as
           they
           speak
           )
           
             their
             publick
             Testimony
             against
             them
             ,
             not
             only
             as
             contrary
             to
             sound
             Doctrine
             ,
             but
             as
             more
             special
             Letts
             and
             Hinderances
             ,
             as
             well
             to
             the
          
           Scottish
           
             received
             Doctrine
             ,
             Discipline
             ,
             and
             Government
             ,
             as
             
             to
             the
             Work
             of
             Reformation
             and
          
           Uniformity
           in
           England
           and
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           The
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Province
           within
           the
           
             County
             Palatine
          
           of
           Lancaster
           ,
           in
           their
           Harmonious
           Consent
           *
           with
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Province
           of
           London
           ,
           publish'd
           their
           Judgments
           in
           these
           zealous
           Words
           .
           
             A
             Toleration
             would
             be
             a
             putting
             of
             a
             Sword
             into
             a
             Mad-man's
             hand
             —
             An
             appointing
             a
          
           City
           of
           Refuge
           in
           Mens
           Consciences
           ,
           for
           the
           Devil
           to
           fly
           to
           —
           
             A
             proclaiming
             Liberty
             to
             the
             Wolves
             to
             come
             into
             Christ's
             Fold
             to
          
           prey
           upon
           his
           Lambs
           —
           
             A
             Toleration
             of
             Soul-murther
             (
             the
             greatest
             murther
             of
             all
             others
             )
             and
             for
             the
             establishing
             whereof
             ,
             damned
             Souls
             in
             Hell
             would
             accurse
             Men
             on
             Earth
             .
             Neither
             would
             it
             be
          
           to
           provide
           for
           tender
           Consciences
           ,
           but
           to
           take
           away
           all
           Conscience
           .
           —
           
             If
             error
             be
             not
          
           forcibly
           
             kept
             under
             ,
             it
             will
             be
          
           Superior
           .
        
         
           It
           seems
           ,
           they
           were
           not
           then
           of
           the
           later
           Perswasion
           of
           the
           Protector
           ,
           who
           said
           ,
           ‖
           concerning
           the
           People
           of
           several
           Judgments
           in
           this
           Land
           ,
           
             That
             they
             were
             All
          
           the
           Flock
           of
           Christ
           ,
           
             and
             the
          
           Lambs
           of
           Christ
           ,
           
             though
             perhaps
             under
             many
             unruly
             Passions
             and
             Troubles
             of
             Spirit
             whereby
             they
             gave
          
           disquiet
           to
           themselves
           and
           others
           :
           
             And
             that
             they
             were
             not
             so
             to
             God
             as
             to
             us
             .
          
        
         
           Again
           ,
           There
           is
           no
           firmness
           or
           social
           influence
           in
           the
           nature
           of
           this
           Union
           .
           It
           is
           the
           Union
           of
           a
           multitude
           who
           meet
           and
           disperse
           at
           pleasure
           .
           and
           he
           who
           proposeth
           this
           way
           as
           the
           means
           to
           knit
           Men
           into
           Christian
           Communion
           ,
           is
           like
           a
           Projector
           who
           should
           design
           the
           keeping
           of
           the
           stones
           together
           in
           the
           strength
           of
           a
           firm
           and
           lasting
           House
           ,
           by
           for
           bearing
           the
           use
           of
           Cement
           .
           The
           Union
           that
           lasteth
           ,
           is
           that
           of
           the
           Concord
           of
           Members
           in
           an
           Uniform
           Body
           .
        
         
           Moreover
           ,
           It
           is
           to
           be
           consider'd
           ,
           that
           there
           are
           no
           Parties
           in
           this
           or
           any
           other
           Nation
           ,
           so
           exactly
           poised
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           equal
           Numbers
           and
           Interests
           .
           There
           is
           
           always
           one
           of
           them
           which
           over-ballanceth
           the
           rest
           .
           And
           one
           of
           the
           several
           ways
           must
           always
           be
           favoured
           as
           the
           Religion
           of
           the
           State.
           And
           it
           is
           natural
           for
           the
           strongest
           side
           to
           attempt
           the
           subduing
           of
           the
           weaker
           .
           And
           though
           this
           be
           not
           soon
           effected
           ;
           yet
           'till
           one
           side
           getteth
           the
           mastery
           ,
           the
           Parties
           remain
           ,
           not
           as
           distinct
           Bodies
           settled
           in
           peace
           within
           themselves
           ,
           and
           towards
           each
           other
           ,
           but
           as
           Convulsions
           in
           the
           common
           body
           of
           the
           State.
           
        
         
           Some
           think
           this
           Inclination
           to
           the
           swallowing
           up
           of
           all
           other
           Parties
           to
           be
           found
           almost
           only
           in
           the
           Romish
           Church
           .
        
         
           But
           there
           is
           something
           of
           it
           to
           be
           discerned
           (
           I
           will
           not
           say
           in
           all
           Churches
           ,
           seeing
           I
           well
           understand
           the
           good
           Temper
           of
           our
           own
           which
           suffered
           Bonner
           himself
           to
           live
           )
           yet
           in
           all
           Factions
           and
           Parties
           ;
           though
           the
           inequality
           of
           Power
           makes
           it
           not
           seem
           to
           be
           alike
           in
           all
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           The
           Catt
           hath
           the
           same
           inward
           Parts
           with
           the
           Lyon
           ,
           though
           they
           differ
           much
           in
           size
           :
           And
           some
           such
           likeness
           they
           will
           find
           who
           dissect
           humane
           nature
           ,
           and
           Bodies
           civil
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           this
           Disposition
           in
           Men
           ,
           whether
           they
           be
           the
           Politick
           ,
           or
           the
           Conscientious
           .
        
         
           The
           External
           practice
           of
           all
           Parties
           is
           answerable
           to
           this
           inward
           Disposition
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           this
           inward
           Disposition
           in
           men
           who
           espouse
           any
           Faction
           ,
           whether
           their
           Ends
           be
           designs
           of
           State
           ,
           or
           of
           Religion
           .
        
         
           Parties
           who
           are
           not
           (
           otherwise
           then
           in
           shew
           )
           concerned
           for
           Religion
           ,
           will
           perpetually
           covet
           Power
           after
           Power
           .
           And
           Parties
           who
           are
           serious
           and
           Conscientious
           in
           their
           way
           ,
           whatsoever
           it
           is
           ;
           will
           not
           remain
           in
           an
           indifference
           of
           tempers
           towards
           thosewho
           treadin
           contrary
           Paths
           ,
           and
           with
           whom
           they
           do
           not
           maintain
           
           Communion
           .
           For
           therefore
           they
           with
           draw
           from
           them
           ,
           because
           they
           believe
           Communion
           with
           them
           to
           be
           unlawful
           .
           Otherwise
           they
           have
           no
           Judgment
           in
           the
           price
           of
           Peace
           and
           Unity
           ,
           if
           they
           willingly
           part
           with
           it
           ,
           when
           they
           may
           ,
           without
           sin
           ,
           enjoy
           it
           :
           and
           if
           they
           esteem
           their
           way
           sinful
           ,
           and
           believe
           those
           persons
           who
           remain
           without
           their
           pale
           ,
           to
           be
           so
           gone
           astray
           ,
           as
           without
           Repentance
           ,
           to
           be
           eternally
           lost
           ;
           Charity
           it self
           will
           urge
           them
           to
           use
           all
           means
           probable
           towards
           the
           reducing
           of
           them
           .
           And
           they
           will
           be
           apt
           to
           think
           ,
           that
           the
           suffering
           of
           them
           in
           their
           Wandrings
           ,
           declares
           them
           to
           be
           contented
           with
           their
           Perdition
           .
        
         
           The
           External
           Practice
           of
           all
           Parties
           do's
           shew
           plainly
           what
           is
           their
           inward
           Disposition
           .
        
         
           All
           would
           do
           what
           is
           good
           in
           their
           own
           eyes
           ;
           but
           I
           do
           not
           perceive
           that
           any
           are
           willing
           to
           let
           others
           do
           so
           .
           Where
           there
           is
           Power
           ,
           there
           is
           little
           Forbearance
           :
           And
           the
           same
           men
           ,
           as
           their
           Conditions
           alter
           ,
           speak
           of
           Mercy
           or
           Iustice.
           
        
         
           Amongst
           those
           of
           the
           Party
           of
           Donatus
           whose
           Schism
           opened
           so
           dangerous
           a
           Wound
           in
           the
           Churches
           of
           Africa
           ;
           all
           pleaded
           earnestly
           for
           Forbearance
           ,
           whilst
           their
           Power
           was
           in
           its
           Minority
           .
           Yet
           ,
           S.
           
             Austin
             ▪
          
           remindeth
           one
           of
           them
           *
           of
           a
           Practice
           contrary
           to
           their
           Profession
           ,
           whilst
           they
           turn'd
           against
           the
           Maximianists
           ,
           the
           edge
           of
           the
           
             Theodosian
             Laws
          
           ;
           and
           abus'd
           the
           Power
           which
           they
           had
           gotten
           under
           Iulian
           ,
           in
           oppressing
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           in
           them
           lay
           ,
           the
           Catholick
           Christians
           .
        
         
           
             Amongst
             those
             of
             the
          
           Protestant
           Perswasion
           ;
           the
           Heads
           of
           the
           Discipline
           ,
           were
           plainly
           unwilling
           that
           any
           should
           have
           leave
           to
           make
           a
           separation
           from
           their
           body
           .
           And
           one
           of
           them
           ‖
           ,
           with
           a
           mixture
           of
           Grief
           and
           Expostulation
           ,
           thus
           discoursed
           before
           the
           Commons
           .
           
             
             The
             Famous
             City
             of
             London
             is
             become
             an
             Amsterdam
             ;
             Separation
             from
             
               Our
               Churches
            
             is
             countenanc'd
             ;
             Toleration
             is
             cried
             up
             ;
             Authority
             lieth
             asleep
             .
          
           Every
           one
           would
           have
           Power
           to
           rowse
           upit
           self
           ,
           and
           maintain
           his
           Cause
           .
           And
           indeed
           it
           is
           ,
           and
           has
           been
           too
           often
           in
           Religion
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           and
           was
           in
           Philosophy
           ,
           
             Where
             the
             divers
             Sects
             do
             not
             contend
             meerly
             for
             the
             enlarging
             the
             bounds
             of
             Philosophical
             Arts
             in
             a
             sincere
             and
             solid
             inquiry
             ,
          
           *
           
             but
             for
             the
             Translating
             the
             Empire
             of
          
           Opinion
           ,
           
             and
             settling
             it
             upon
             themselves
          
           .
           The
           same
           men
           who
           pleaded
           for
           Forbearance
           in
           this
           Church
           ,
           and
           remov'd
           themselves
           into
           New-England
           (
           as
           by
           themselves
           was
           said
           )
           for
           the
           Liberty
           of
           thier
           Conscience
           or
           Persuasion
           ;
           when
           once
           they
           arrived
           there
           ,
           and
           made
           a
           figure
           in
           that
           Government
           ,
           they
           refused
           Indulgence
           to
           the
           Anabaptists
           and
           Quakers
           ,
           and
           us'd
           them
           (
           as
           to
           this
           day
           they
           do
           )
           with
           great
           severity
           .
           Those
           Commons
           who
           in
           the
           Year
           47
           ‖
           ,
           made
           an
           Order
           ,
           
             For
             the
             giving
             of
             Indulgence
             to
             tender
             Consciences
             ;
             did
             at
             the
             same
             time
             make
             another
             Order
             ,
             That
             this
             Indulgence
             should
             not
             extend
             to
             tolerate
             such
             who
             used
             the
          
           Common-Prayer
           .
        
         
           Some
           who
           do
           not
           well
           understand
           the
           Policy
           of
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           do
           believe
           it
           to
           be
           otherwise
           in
           those
           Netherlands
           .
           But
           ,
           by
           their
           Constitution
           ,
           none
           have
           liberty
           to
           speak
           against
           any
           publick
           Error
           or
           Corruption
           ,
           on
           which
           the
           States
           shall
           stamp
           their
           Authority
           .
           And
           Episcopius
           *
           complain'd
           that
           the
           Calvinists
           would
           tolerate
           none
           whom
           they
           had
           power
           to
           punish
           .
           There
           are
           now
           great
           numbers
           of
           his
           own
           Remonstrant
           Party
           ,
           who
           ,
           when
           any
           juncture
           of
           Affairs
           gives
           them
           encouragement
           ,
           are
           apt
           to
           contend
           for
           Superiority
           .
           The
           Parties
           in
           their
           Sermons
           and
           Writings
           ,
           speak
           with
           bitter
           Zeal
           against
           each
           other
           :
           And
           where
           the
           ordinary
           Conversation
           of
           Men
           of
           different
           Judgment
           is
           peaceable
           amongst
           them
           ;
           divers
           who
           mind
           Traffick
           more
           than
           
           Religion
           ,
           seem
           rather
           to
           be
           an
           Heterogeneous
           body
           frozen
           together
           by
           a
           cold
           indifference
           ,
           then
           a
           Society
           united
           by
           Christian
           Love.
           
        
         
           
             In
             the
             Church
             of
          
           Rome
           ,
           the
           several
           Orders
           ,
           who
           at
           present
           mortally
           hate
           one
           another
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           not
           restrain'd
           by
           the
           force
           of
           the
           common
           Politie
           ,
           they
           would
           soon
           devour
           one
           another
           .
           We
           are
           not
           without
           a
           remarkable
           Instance
           in
           this
           kind
           ,
           published
           by
           a
           
             Dominicans
             Bishop
          
           ,
           and
           a
           
             Capuchin
             Fryer
          
           .
           Certain
           Dominicans
           ‖
           had
           seated
           themselves
           nigh
           the
           River
           of
           Plate
           in
           Paraguay
           ,
           where
           there
           are
           Gold
           Mines
           in
           the
           Earth
           ,
           and
           Gold
           Sands
           in
           the
           Rivers
           .
           Of
           this
           the
           Jesuits
           ,
           who
           have
           long
           ears
           ,
           had
           good
           intelligence
           .
           They
           desired
           to
           go
           thither
           in
           order
           to
           the
           further
           instruction
           of
           the
           American-people
           ,
           and
           the
           education
           of
           Youth
           .
           They
           obtained
           leave
           ,
           procured
           Letters
           of
           Credence
           ,
           were
           furnished
           with
           money
           for
           the
           Voyage
           .
           After
           having
           gotten
           sure
           footing
           ,
           they
           soon
           removed
           the
           Dominicans
           and
           Spanish
           Laiety
           ,
           and
           established
           themselves
           .
        
         
           Among
           the
           Socinians
           ,
           the
           great
           Asserters
           of
           Liberty
           in
           Religion
           ,
           both
           in
           thinking
           and
           speaking
           ;
           though
           they
           cannot
           impose
           ,
           because
           they
           have
           not
           yet
           been
           any
           where
           (
           that
           I
           know
           of
           )
           the
           prevailing
           Party
           ;
           yet
           they
           shew
           sometimes
           what
           Spirit
           they
           are
           of
           .
        
         
           Gittichius
           was
           ,
           beyond
           all
           good
           manners
           ,
           troublesom
           to
           a
           Socinian
           of
           better
           temper
           (
           I
           mean
           
           Ruarus*
           )
           because
           he
           had
           chosen
           to
           fast
           one
           day
           in
           a
           week
           ,
           
           and
           had
           taken
           Friday
           for
           the
           day
           ,
           though
           without
           any
           fixed
           purpose
           .
        
         
           Among
           the
           Quakers
           themselves
           ,
           whose
           Principle
           seems
           to
           be
           the
           Guidance
           of
           each
           man
           by
           his
           personal
           persuasion
           ,
           there
           want
           not
           signs
           of
           that
           fierce
           heat
           with
           which
           their
           Light
           is
           accompanied
           .
           When
           some
           had
           form'd
           them
           into
           a
           Society
           ,
           and
           gotten
           the
           Governance
           
           into
           their
           hands
           ,
           they
           Excommunicated
           others
           ;
           they
           suffered
           them
           not
           to
           Marry
           or
           Bury
           in
           their
           manner
           who
           would
           not
           be
           guided
           by
           what
           they
           called
           the
           
             Light
             of
             the
             Body
          
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Light
             of
             Antient
             Friends
          
           .
           *
           
             George
             Fox
          
           declar'd
           he
           had
           
             Power
             to
             bind
             and
             loose
             whom
             he
             pleased
             ,
          
           ‖
           
             and
             said
             in
             a
             great
             Assembly
          
           †
           
             that
             he
             never
             lik'd
             the
             Word
          
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           
             and
             would
             have
             no
             Liberty
             given
             to
          
           Presbyterians
           ,
           Papists
           ,
           Independents
           ,
           and
           Baptists
           .
        
         
           From
           the
           
             Subordinate
             End
          
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           
           I
           pass
           to
           the
           Principal
           ;
           and
           begin
           with
           the
           
             first
             part
          
           of
           it
           ,
           the
           removal
           of
           Popery
           .
           A
           very
           good
           and
           commendable
           end
           .
           And
           I
           heartily
           pray
           to
           God
           to
           prosper
           all
           Christians
           who
           persue
           it
           by
           fit
           and
           lawful
           ways
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           Methods
           of
           Dissenters
           do
           not
           so
           well
           lead
           to
           it
           as
           those
           of
           the
           established
           Church
           .
        
         
           
             Bare
             Reason
          
           maketh
           this
           manifest
           .
           It
           may
           be
           also
           proved
           to
           us
           by
           
             Historical
             Inference
          
           .
        
         
           This
           likewise
           ,
           is
           the
           
             Iudgment
             of
             the
          
           Papists
           themselves
           ,
           who
           take
           their
           measures
           from
           this
           Principle
           ,
           that
           they
           shall
           enter
           in
           through
           the
           Breaches
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           
             First
             ,
             Common
             Reason
          
           sheweth
           ,
           that
           the
           Interruption
           which
           ,
           may
           be
           Dissension
           ,
           be
           given
           to
           this
           Church
           ,
           will
           rather
           weaken
           ,
           then
           improve
           the
           
             Protestant
             Interest
          
           ,
           both
           at
           home
           and
           abroad
           .
        
         
           Abroad
           ,
           the
           Protestant
           Interest
           will
           suffer
           much
           ,
           in
           the
           overthrow
           of
           this
           Church
           .
           For
           ,
           by
           such
           means
           ,
           a
           principal
           Wheel
           is
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           Frame
           of
           the
           Reformation
           .
           Nay
           ,
           
             Signior
             Diodati
          
           *
           was
           wont
           to
           praise
           it
           in
           a
           more
           excellent
           Metaphor
           ,
           and
           to
           call
           it
           the
           Eye
           
             of
             the
             Reformed
             Churches
          
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           plain
           to
           considering
           Men
           that
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           which
           had
           greater
           regard
           to
           the
           Primitive
           Pattern
           than
           some
           others
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           can
           give
           a
           more
           full
           and
           unperplexed
           
           answer
           to
           all
           the
           Objections
           of
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           then
           some
           other
           Churches
           ,
           who
           are
           cramped
           in
           a
           few
           points
           unwarily
           admitted
           .
           If
           therefore
           Dissentions
           put
           out
           this
           eye
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Churches
           ,
           the
           dark
           Doctrines
           and
           Traditions
           of
           Popery
           will
           the
           sooner
           spread
           themselves
           over
           Reformed
           Christendom
           .
        
         
           
             At
             Home
          
           ,
           the
           Dissettlement
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           will
           sooner
           introduce
           then
           root
           out
           Poperty
           .
           I
           am
           constrain'd
           thus
           to
           judge
           by
           the
           following
           Considerations
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           The
           design
           of
           keeping
           out
           Popery
           by
           the
           Ruine
           of
           this
           Church
           ,
           is
           like
           the
           preposterous
           way
           ,
           of
           securing
           the
           Vineyard
           by
           pulling
           up
           of
           the
           Fence
           ;
           or
           of
           keeping
           out
           the
           Enemy
           by
           the
           removal
           of
           our
           Bullwark
           .
           Under
           that
           name
           this
           Church
           is
           commonly
           spoken
           of
           ,
           and
           they
           do
           not
           flatter
           it
           who
           give
           it
           that
           Title
           .
           It
           s
           Constitution
           is
           Christian
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           strong
           in
           its
           Nature
           ;
           and
           if
           such
           a
           Church
           hath
           not
           ability
           (
           with
           God's
           assistance
           )
           to
           resist
           the
           assaults
           of
           
             Romish
             Power
          
           ,
           much
           less
           have
           they
           who
           dissent
           from
           it
           .
           And
           it
           is
           Fanaticism
           properly
           so
           called
           ,
           or
           Religious
           Frenzie
           ,
           to
           lay
           aside
           a
           more
           probable
           means
           ,
           and
           to
           trust
           that
           God
           will
           give
           ,
           to
           means
           which
           are
           much
           less
           probable
           ,
           supernatural
           aid
           and
           success
           .
        
         
           God
           supporteth
           a
           good
           Cause
           by
           weak
           means
           (
           if
           they
           are
           the
           only
           means
           he
           hath
           put
           into
           our
           power
           )
           agaisnt
           a
           bad
           Cause
           though
           externally
           potent
           .
           But
           he
           ,
           who
           in
           cases
           of
           emergence
           assisteth
           honest
           Impotence
           and
           Infirmity
           ,
           will
           never
           work
           Miracles
           in
           favour
           of
           Mens
           Presumptions
           and
           Indiscretions
           .
        
         
           The
           Romanists
           are
           a
           mighty
           body
           of
           Men
           ;
           and
           ,
           though
           there
           are
           Intestine
           Fewds
           betwixt
           the
           Secular
           and
           Regular
           Clergy
           ,
           as
           likewise
           betwixt
           the
           several
           Orders
           ,
           yet
           they
           are
           all
           united
           into
           one
           common
           Politie
           ,
           and
           grafted
           into
           that
           one
           stock
           of
           the
           Papal
           Headship
           .
           
           They
           are
           favoured
           in
           many
           places
           by
           great
           Men
           ;
           they
           have
           variety
           of
           Learning
           ;
           they
           pretend
           to
           great
           Antiquity
           ,
           to
           Miracles
           ,
           to
           Martyrs
           without
           number
           ,
           to
           extraordinary
           Charity
           and
           Mortification
           ;
           they
           have
           the
           Nerves
           of
           worldly
           Power
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           banks
           of
           Money
           ,
           and
           a
           large
           Revenue
           :
           They
           have
           a
           Scheme
           of
           Policy
           always
           in
           readiness
           ;
           there
           are
           great
           numbers
           of
           Emissaries
           posted
           in
           all
           places
           for
           the
           conveying
           of
           intelligence
           ,
           and
           the
           gaining
           of
           Proselytes
           ;
           they
           take
           upon
           them
           all
           shapes
           ,
           and
           are
           bred
           to
           all
           the
           worldly
           Arts
           of
           Insinuation
           .
           There
           is
           given
           to
           their
           way
           ,
           in
           the
           Iargon
           of
           Mr.
           Coleman
           *
           ,
           a
           very
           fit
           name
           of
           
             Trade
             ,
             Traffick
             ,
             Merchandize
          
           .
        
         
           Against
           all
           this
           Craft
           and
           Strength
           ,
           what
           (
           under
           God
           )
           can
           Protestants
           oppose
           which
           is
           equal
           to
           the
           Power
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ?
           A
           Church
           Primitive
           ,
           learned
           ,
           pure
           ,
           and
           not
           embased
           with
           the
           mixtures
           of
           Enthusiasm
           or
           Superstition
           .
        
         
           A
           
             Church
             ,
             which
          
           is
           able
           to
           detect
           the
           Forgeries
           and
           Impostures
           of
           
             Rome
             ;
             which
          
           hath
           not
           given
           advantage
           to
           her
           by
           running
           from
           her
           into
           any
           extream
           ;
           which
           is
           a
           National
           Body
           already
           formed
           ;
           a
           Body
           both
           Christian
           and
           Legal
           ;
           a
           Body
           which
           commendeth
           it self
           to
           the
           Civil
           Powers
           by
           the
           Loyalty
           of
           its
           Constitution
           ;
           a
           Body
           which
           hath
           in
           it
           great
           numbers
           of
           People
           judiciously
           devout
           ,
           and
           who
           are
           judged
           only
           to
           be
           few
           *
           ,
           because
           they
           are
           not
           noysie
           ,
           but
           prudent
           ,
           though
           truly
           exemplary
           ,
           in
           their
           Religion
           .
        
         
           And
           ,
           there
           is
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           something
           more
           considerable
           then
           number
           ;
           for
           Union
           is
           stronger
           then
           Multitude
           .
           Take
           the
           Character
           of
           this
           Church
           from
           
             Monsieur
             Daille
          
           *
           ,
           a
           Man
           whose
           Circumstances
           were
           not
           likely
           to
           lead
           him
           ,
           in
           this
           matter
           ,
           into
           any
           partiality
           of
           judgment
           ;
           and
           who
           ,
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           was
           engag'd
           in
           a
           learned
           Controversy
           with
           one
           of
           our
           Divines
           .
           
           The
           Character
           is
           this
           .
           
             As
             to
             the
             Church
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             purged
             from
             Forrein
             wicked
             Superstitious
             Worships
             and
             Errours
             ,
             either
             Impious
             or
             dangerous
             ,
             by
             the
             Rule
             of
             the
             Divine
             Scriptures
             ;
             approved
             by
             so
             many
             and
             such
             illustrious
             Martyrs
             ;
             abounding
             with
             Piety
             towards
             God
             ,
             and
             Charity
             towards
          
           Men
           ,
           
             and
             with
             most
             frequent
             examples
             of
             good
             works
             ;
             flourishing
             with
             an
             increase
             of
             most
             learned
             and
             wise
             men
             from
             the
             beginning
             of
             the
             Reformation
             to
             this
             time
             ;
             I
             have
             always
             had
             it
             in
             just
             esteem
             ,
             and
             till
             I
             die
             ,
             I
             shall
             continue
             in
             the
             same
             due
             Veneration
             of
             it
             .
             And
             ,
          
           indeed
           it
           is
           to
           me
           a
           matter
           of
           astonishment
           ,
           that
           any
           men
           who
           have
           been
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           ,
           and
           made
           Observations
           upon
           other
           Churches
           and
           States
           ,
           should
           be
           displeased
           at
           Ours
           which
           so
           much
           excel
           them
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           is
           it
           probable
           that
           such
           a
           Church
           as
           this
           is
           ,
           should
           have
           less
           strength
           in
           it
           for
           the
           resisting
           of
           Popery
           ,
           then
           an
           inferior
           number
           of
           divided
           Parties
           ,
           of
           which
           the
           most
           Sober
           and
           most
           Accomplish'd
           ,
           is
           neither
           so
           Primitive
           ,
           nor
           so
           learned
           ,
           nor
           so
           united
           ,
           nor
           so
           numerous
           ,
           nor
           so
           legal
           :
           And
           against
           which
           it
           will
           be
           objected
           by
           the
           Romans
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           of
           Yesterday
           ?
        
         
           Amongst
           these
           Parties
           ,
           
             there
             are
             some
             who
             have
             not
             fully
             declared
             themselves
             .
          
           And
           who
           knows
           whether
           they
           have
           not
           a
           Reserve
           for
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           ,
           against
           a
           favourable
           Opportunity
           ,
           though
           sometimes
           they
           speak
           of
           Rome
           as
           of
           Babylon
           ?
           I
           mean
           those
           People
           who
           are
           called
           Quakers
           ,
           who
           speak
           in
           general
           of
           their
           Light
           ;
           and
           in
           such
           doubtful
           manner
           ,
           that
           Inquisitive
           Men
           cannot
           yet
           understand
           from
           what
           quarter
           of
           the
           Heavens
           it
           shineth
           .
           The
           Men
           of
           design
           amongst
           them
           may
           embrace
           any
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           melancholy
           will
           make
           a
           tolerable
           Order
           amongst
           the
           Romans
           ;
           and
           the
           Priests
           will
           find
           for
           them
           a
           second
           St.
           Bruno
           .
        
         
         
           Again
           ,
           There
           are
           some
           who
           though
           they
           have
           declared
           themselves
           against
           Popery
           ,
           yet
           they
           have
           scarce
           any
           formed
           way
           of
           keeping
           it
           out
           .
           For
           what
           hindreth
           a
           crafty
           Jesuite
           from
           gathering
           a
           particular
           Congregation
           out
           of
           many
           others
           ,
           and
           modelling
           of
           it
           by
           degrees
           according
           to
           his
           pleasure
           ?
           and
           what
           a
           gap
           do
           they
           leave
           open
           for
           Seducers
           ,
           who
           take
           out
           of
           the
           way
           all
           Legal
           Tests
           ,
           and
           admit
           Men
           who
           are
           Strangers
           to
           them
           to
           officiate
           amongst
           them
           upon
           bare
           pretence
           of
           Spiritual
           Illumination
           ?
        
         
           Furthermore
           ,
           the
           Romanists
           have
           more
           powerful
           ways
           of
           drawing
           Men
           from
           the
           Parties
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           then
           they
           have
           of
           enticing
           them
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ;
           for
           such
           Men
           (
           too
           frequently
           )
           go
           out
           from
           us
           through
           weakness
           of
           imagination
           ,
           for
           which
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           hath
           variety
           of
           Gratifications
           .
        
         
           They
           will
           offer
           ,
           to
           the
           Severe
           ,
           such
           strictnesses
           as
           are
           not
           consistent
           with
           the
           general
           Laws
           of
           a
           National
           Church
           ,
           which
           being
           framed
           for
           Men
           of
           such
           various
           Conditions
           ,
           must
           have
           some
           Scope
           and
           Latitude
           ,
           though
           no
           licence
           in
           it
           ;
           and
           many
           of
           those
           who
           now
           joyn
           themselves
           to
           the
           Dissenting
           Parties
           ,
           would
           then
           chuse
           to
           be
           admitted
           as
           Members
           of
           this
           or
           the
           other
           Superstitious
           Fraternity
           :
           And
           it
           is
           (
           at
           least
           )
           my
           private
           Conjecture
           ,
           that
           if
           the
           Revenue
           of
           the
           Religious
           Houses
           which
           were
           dissolved
           ,
           had
           been
           judiciously
           applyed
           to
           the
           service
           of
           Men
           ,
           either
           weak
           in
           mind
           ,
           or
           indisposed
           by
           temper
           ,
           or
           singular
           in
           their
           Inclination
           ,
           amongst
           the
           Reformed
           ;
           there
           might
           have
           been
           a
           Diversity
           here
           (
           I
           mean
           such
           as
           there
           is
           in
           our
           present
           Colleges
           )
           without
           a
           Schism
           .
        
         
           Likewise
           ,
           they
           have
           
             Mental
             Prayer
          
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           they
           call
           them
           )
           
             Spiritual
             Eructations
          
           ,
           for
           those
           who
           contemn
           or
           scruple
           forms
           .
           *
        
         
         
           They
           ahve
           mystical
           Phrases
           for
           such
           who
           think
           they
           have
           a
           new
           Notion
           when
           they
           darken
           understanding
           with
           Words
           .
           And
           accordingly
           ,
           the
           third
           
             part
             of
             the
             Rule
             of
             Perfection
             ,
          
           (
           a
           very
           mystical
           Book
           ,
           written
           by
           
             Father
             Benet
             a
             Capuchin
          
           )
           was
           in
           the
           Year
           46
           ,
           reprinted
           in
           London
           ,
           *
           ,
           with
           a
           new
           Title
           ,
           and
           without
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Author
           ;
           and
           it
           passed
           ,
           amongst
           some
           of
           the
           Parties
           ,
           for
           a
           Book
           containing
           very
           sublime
           Evangelical
           Truths
           .
           And
           it
           pleased
           some
           Enthusiasts
           when
           they
           read
           in
           it
           ,
           That
           Christ's
           
             Passion
             was
             to
             be
             practis'd
             and
             beheld
             as
             it
             was
             in
             our selves
             rather
             than
             that
             which
             is
             considered
             at
          
           Jerusalem
           .
           *
        
         
           Also
           ,
           they
           use
           much
           gesture
           ,
           and
           great
           shew
           of
           Zeal
           in
           preaching
           ,
           and
           have
           singular
           ways
           of
           moving
           the
           zealous
           temper
           of
           the
           English
           ,
           from
           whence
           some
           of
           them
           ,
           in
           Rome
           it self
           ,
           had
           the
           Name
           of
           Knock-breasts
           ,
           *
           given
           to
           them
           .
           A
           Romish
           Preacher
           comes
           forth
           out
           of
           an
           obscure
           Cloyster
           into
           the
           Pulpit
           ,
           and
           appears
           all
           heavenly
           in
           the
           Exercise
           :
           And
           having
           excited
           a
           warmth
           in
           their
           affection
           ,
           he
           retires
           again
           ,
           and
           does
           not
           mix
           with
           Conversation
           ,
           and
           is
           not
           observed
           (
           as
           other
           Ministers
           )
           by
           many
           eyes
           ;
           and
           the
           People
           never
           seeing
           him
           but
           in
           this
           Divine
           Figure
           ,
           look
           upon
           him
           as
           an
           Angel
           coming
           to
           them
           out
           of
           Heaven
           ,
           and
           then
           ascending
           ▪
           thither
           again
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           be
           observed
           ,
           also
           ,
           that
           the
           Romanists
           have
           greater
           
             shews
             of
             self-denial
          
           for
           the
           moving
           of
           English
           Pity
           ,
           then
           the
           Dissenters
           .
           They
           have
           rough
           Cords
           ,
           mean
           Garments
           ,
           bare
           Feet
           ,
           Disciplines
           ,
           Whips
           ,
           Pretences
           of
           not
           touching
           Money
           ,
           or
           enjoying
           Property
           ;
           though
           some
           of
           these
           are
           often
           no
           other
           then
           Arts
           used
           by
           ordinary
           Beggars
           .
        
         
           Again
           ,
           they
           have
           ways
           ,
           not
           only
           of
           humouring
           the
           infirmity
           ,
           but
           even
           the
           Foppishness
           of
           Humane
           Nature
           .
           Processions
           and
           other
           Rites
           of
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           are
           
           so
           ordered
           as
           to
           be
           Games
           for
           Diversion
           ;
           and
           the
           
             Mass
             with
             Scenes
          
           pleaseth
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           not
           understood
           .
        
         
           Dissenters
           do
           now
           think
           ,
           that
           Popery
           may
           be
           very
           easily
           subdued
           by
           their
           Arms
           :
           But
           if
           Recluses
           were
           once
           crept
           out
           of
           their
           dark
           Cells
           (
           as
           Serpents
           from
           under
           the
           deadly
           night-shade
           )
           they
           would
           have
           cause
           to
           alter
           their
           Opinions
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           think
           too
           highly
           of
           themselves
           ,
           after
           a
           wilful
           removal
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           which
           is
           sufficient
           (
           under
           God
           )
           for
           this
           Encounter
           .
           This
           Church
           designs
           to
           make
           Men
           good
           by
           making
           them
           first
           Judicious
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           means
           can
           do
           it
           .
           But
           some
           others
           desire
           to
           bring
           them
           to
           their
           side
           by
           catching
           of
           their
           Imaginations
           ;
           and
           by
           that
           way
           they
           can
           neither
           reform
           nor
           fix
           them
           .
           Some
           new
           Device
           shall
           ,
           in
           time
           ,
           bring
           them
           over
           to
           a
           new
           Party
           .
        
         
           Dissention
           it self
           amongst
           Protestants
           weakneth
           their
           Interest
           ;
           and
           that
           which
           weakens
           one
           side
           ,
           strengthens
           another
           .
        
         
           And
           many
           men
           ,
           entangled
           in
           Controversy
           ,
           and
           wearied
           with
           endless
           wrangling
           ,
           are
           too
           apt
           ,
           for
           mere
           ease
           and
           quiet
           sake
           ,
           to
           cast
           themselves
           ,
           in
           servile
           manner
           ,
           into
           the
           Arms
           of
           pretended
           Infallibility
           .
        
         
           Our
           Dissentions
           have
           already
           introduced
           too
           much
           of
           that
           which
           is
           the
           very
           spirit
           of
           Iesuitism
           ,
           the
           doing
           of
           Evil
           that
           pretended
           Good
           may
           come
           of
           it
           ;
           the
           serving
           of
           a
           Cause
           by
           any
           means
           ,
           whether
           they
           be
           just
           or
           unjust
           .
        
         
           Some
           Dissenters
           do
           accidently
           prepare
           the
           way
           for
           Romish
           Religion
           by
           running
           into
           an
           other
           extream
           upon
           pretence
           of
           avoiding
           Popery
           ;
           by
           decrying
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           as
           Antichristian
           and
           Popish
           ;
           and
           by
           condemning
           that
           as
           Popish
           which
           is
           Christian
           and
           decent
           .
           [
           As
           ,
           Episcopacy
           ,
           Liturgy
           ,
           Observation
           of
           the
           Nativity
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           other
           Festivals
           ,
           Reverence
           of
           bodily
           Gesture
           ,
           particularly
           in
           receiving
           the
           Holy
           
           Communion
           ;
           Preservation
           of
           places
           and
           things
           set
           apart
           for
           Holy
           uses
           ,
           with
           reverend
           care
           .
           ]
           By
           this
           means
           they
           bring
           Popery
           into
           Reputation
           .
           Men
           will
           be
           apt
           to
           say
           ,
           if
           such
           a
           Body
           as
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           be
           Popish
           ,
           it
           is
           fit
           we
           set
           down
           and
           consider
           of
           it
           ;
           for
           surely
           they
           are
           not
           so
           inclined
           without
           weighty
           Reasons
           .
           If
           the
           Clergy
           of
           it
           be
           inclined
           to
           that
           Religion
           the
           Introduction
           of
           which
           ,
           together
           with
           great
           numbers
           of
           the
           Popish-Clergy
           ,
           will
           diminish
           their
           preferment
           ;
           it
           must
           be
           the
           Power
           of
           Truth
           which
           moveth
           them
           against
           their
           worldly
           Interest
           .
           They
           will
           continue
           their
           Argument
           and
           say
           further
           ;
           if
           such
           good
           things
           as
           these
           abovementioned
           be
           Romish
           ,
           and
           it
           be
           lawful
           to
           judge
           of
           the
           whole
           by
           the
           parts
           of
           it
           which
           are
           before
           us
           ,
           surely
           that
           which
           is
           Popish
           is
           also
           Primitive
           and
           Evangelical
           .
           That
           which
           we
           have
           examin'd
           is
           good
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           we
           have
           not
           ,
           may
           probably
           be
           of
           the
           same
           kind
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           the
           History
           of
           our
           late
           Revolutions
           sheweth
           that
           Popery
           will
           not
           be
           smother'd
           in
           the
           Ruines
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           but
           rather
           be
           advanced
           upon
           them
           .
        
         
           It
           made
           great
           Progress
           in
           the
           late
           Times
           ;
           insomuch
           ,
           that
           the
           Dissenters
           do
           remove
           the
           Odium
           of
           the
           late
           King
           's
           execrable
           Murther
           from
           themselves
           ,
           and
           lay
           it
           upon
           the
           Iesuites
           ;
           thereby
           tacitly
           acknowledging
           that
           they
           had
           so
           great
           a
           power
           over
           some
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           to
           make
           them
           to
           become
           their
           Instruments
           for
           the
           cutting
           of
           the
           
             Lord
             's
             Anointed
          
           .
           For
           if
           they
           will
           not
           allow
           Cromwell
           and
           Ireton
           and
           some
           others
           of
           that
           Order
           ,
           to
           have
           been
           Dissenters
           ,
           properly
           so
           called
           ;
           yet
           certainly
           they
           must
           not
           deny
           that
           Name
           to
           Mr.
           Peters
           ,
           Mr.
           
             Iohn
             Goodwin
          
           and
           many
           like
           to
           them
           ,
           who
           appeared
           publickly
           in
           that
           very
           black
           and
           insolent
           wickedness
           .
           How
           far
           it
           is
           true
           that
           the
           Jesuits
           influenc'd
           those
           Counsels
           ,
           
           I
           do
           not
           now
           examine
           ,
           nor
           do's
           my
           Talent
           lie
           in
           Mysteries
           of
           State.
           But
           that
           in
           the
           late
           Revolutions
           ,
           Popery
           was
           not
           rooted
           out
           ,
           no
           Man
           can
           remain
           ignorant
           who
           is
           of
           competent
           Age
           ,
           and
           has
           not
           perfectly
           lost
           the
           use
           of
           his
           memory
           ,
           though
           he
           has
           made
           the
           most
           negligent
           Observations
           .
        
         
           
             Robert
             Mentit
             de
             Salmonet
          
           *
           a
           Scotchman
           ,
           and
           a
           
             Secular
             Priest
          
           in
           actual
           exercise
           of
           Communion
           with
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           hath
           publickly
           taken
           notice
           of
           the
           many
           Priests
           slain
           at
           Edge-Hill
           ,
           and
           of
           two
           Companies
           of
           Walloons
           and
           other
           Catholicks
           (
           as
           he
           is
           pleased
           to
           style
           them
           )
           in
           the
           Service
           of
           the
           States
           .
        
         
           It
           hath
           been
           commonly
           said
           ‖
           that
           Gifford
           the
           Jesuite
           appeared
           openly
           in
           the
           Year
           47
           ,
           amongst
           the
           Agitators
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           Pen
           was
           used
           in
           the
           Paper
           drawn
           up
           at
           a
           Committee
           in
           the
           Army
           ,
           and
           call'd
           the
           
             Agreement
             of
             the
             People
          
           .
           †
           K.
           Charles
           the
           Martyr
           speaketh
           of
           such
           things
           as
           notorious
           ,
           in
           one
           of
           his
           printed
           Declarations
           *
           ;
           
             All
             Men
             know
          
           (
           said
           he
           )
           
             the
             great
             number
             of
          
           Papists
           
             which
             serve
             in
             their
             Army
             ,
             Commanders
             ,
             and
             others
             .
          
        
         
           
             In
             the
             Year
          
           49
           ,
           *
           Those
           in
           the
           House
           
             were
             acquainted
             with
             divers
             Papers
             ,
             taken
             in
             a
          
           French
           
             Man's
             Trunk
             at
          
           Rye
           ,
           
             discovering
             a
          
           Popish
           
             Design
             to
             be
             set
             on
             foot
             in
          
           England
           ,
           
             with
             Commissions
             from
             the
             Bishop
             of
          
           Chalcedon
           ,
           
             by
             Authority
             of
             the
             Church
             of
          
           Rome
           ,
           to
           Popish
           
             Priests
             and
             others
             ,
             for
             settling
             the
             Discipline
             of
             the
          
           Romish
           
             Church
             in
          
           England
           and
           Scotland
           .
        
         
           Mr.
           Edwards
           *
           reports
           ,
           from
           Mr.
           Mills
           a
           Common-Council-man
           ,
           who
           was
           so
           informed
           by
           a
           knowing
           Papist
           ,
           that
           the
           Romanists
           did
           generally
           shelter
           themselves
           under
           the
           Vizor
           of
           Independency
           .
           It
           is
           certain
           ,
           that
           a
           College
           of
           Jesuits
           was
           established
           at
           Come
           *
           in
           the
           Year
           52.
           
           And
           in
           a
           Paper
           found
           there
           ,
           mention
           was
           made
           of
           155
           reconcil'd
           that
           year
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           
             Rome
             .
             Oliver
          
           himself
           used
           these
           words
           in
           a
           Declaration
           
           publish'd
           by
           the
           Advice
           of
           his
           Council
           .
           ‖
           
             It
             is
             not
             only
          
           Commonly
           
             observed
             ,
             but
             there
             remains
             with
          
           Us
           ,
           
             somewhat
             of
          
           Proof
           ,
           
             that
             Iesuites
             have
             been
             found
             among
             some
             discontented
             Parties
             in
             this
             Nation
             ,
             who
             are
             observed
             to
             quarrel
             and
             fall
             out
             with
             every
             Form
             or
             Administration
             in
             the
             Church
             or
             State.
          
           Dr.
           Bayly
           *
           the
           Romanist
           openly
           courted
           Oliver
           as
           the
           present
           hopes
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           ,
           with
           a
           Flattery
           as
           gross
           as
           the
           Jingle
           was
           ridiculous
           ,
           call'd
           him
           
             Oliva
             Vera
          
           :
           And
           one
           of
           his
           Physitians
           †
           hath
           said
           of
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           once
           negotiating
           with
           the
           Romanists
           for
           Toleration
           ,
           but
           brake
           off
           the
           bargain
           ,
           partly
           because
           they
           came
           not
           up
           to
           his
           price
           ,
           and
           partly
           because
           he
           feared
           it
           would
           be
           offensive
           to
           the
           People
           .
           It
           is
           also
           publickly
           told
           us
           ,
           ‖
           that
           an
           Agreement
           was
           made
           in
           49
           ,
           even
           with
           
             Owen
             ô
             Neal
          
           ,
           that
           bloody
           Romanist
           ;
           and
           that
           he
           ,
           in
           pursuance
           of
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           so
           called
           ,
           raised
           the
           Siege
           of
           London-derry
           .
        
         
           A
           great
           door
           was
           opened
           to
           Romish
           Emissaries
           when
           the
           Oaths
           of
           Allegiance
           and
           Supremacy
           were
           ,
           by
           publick
           Order
           ,
           taken
           away
           :
           For
           they
           were
           Tests
           of
           Romanism
           .
           Likewise
           ,
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           unlawfulness
           of
           an
           Oath
           ,
           revived
           in
           those
           days
           ,
           by
           
             Roger
             Williams
          
           ,
           *
           
             Samuel
             Gorton
          
           ,
           and
           others
           ,
           helped
           equivocating
           Papists
           to
           an
           evasion
           ;
           as
           (
           I
           fear
           )
           it
           may
           do
           ,
           at
           this
           day
           ,
           among
           the
           Quakers
           .
           So
           we
           may
           be
           induced
           to
           believe
           ,
           by
           comparing
           present
           with
           former
           Transactions
           .
           For
           we
           are
           infomed
           that
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Iames
           ,
           †
           
             Thomas
             Newton
             ,
             pretended
             to
             have
             had
             a
             Vision
             of
             the
          
           Virgin
           Mary
           ,
           
             who
             said
             to
             him
          
           ,
           Newton
           ,
           See
           thou
           do
           not
           take
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           :
           
             And
             being
             of
             this
             publickly
             examined
             at
             the
          
           Commission-Table
           ,
           
             and
             asked
             ,
             how
             he
             knew
             it
             to
             be
             the
          
           Virgin
           Mary
           
             which
             appeared
             ?
             He
             answer'd
          
           ,
           I
           knew
           it
           was
           she
           ,
           for
           she
           appeared
           unto
           me
           in
           the
           form
           of
           her
           Assumption
           .
        
         
         
           It
           was
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           which
           ,
           in
           our
           late
           Troubles
           ,
           principally
           fortify'd
           and
           entrench'd
           the
           true
           Protestant
           Religion
           against
           the
           Assaults
           of
           Rome
           .
        
         
           This
           Church
           was
           still
           in
           being
           ,
           though
           in
           Adversity
           .
           She
           had
           strong
           Vitals
           and
           did
           not
           die
           ,
           notwithstanding
           there
           was
           some
           Distemper
           in
           her
           Estate
           .
           There
           was
           still
           a
           Constitution
           where
           Primitive
           order
           and
           decencie
           might
           be
           found
           ,
           and
           in
           which
           Men
           of
           Sobriety
           might
           be
           fixed
           .
           And
           great
           numbers
           of
           the
           Church-men
           ,
           by
           their
           constant
           adherence
           to
           their
           Principles
           ,
           under
           publick
           contempt
           and
           heavy
           pressure
           ,
           gained
           daily
           on
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           convinced
           the
           World
           that
           they
           were
           not
           so
           Popish
           and
           Earthly-minded
           as
           popular
           clamour
           had
           represented
           them
           .
           Also
           ,
           their
           learned
           Books
           and
           Conferences
           reduced
           some
           ,
           and
           establish'd
           many
           ,
           and
           we
           owe
           a
           part
           of
           the
           stability
           of
           Men
           in
           those
           times
           to
           God's
           blessing
           on
           the
           Writings
           of
           Arch-bishop
           Land
           ,
           Mr.
           Chillingworth
           ,
           Dr.
           Bromhall
           ,
           Dr.
           Cosins
           ,
           Dr.
           Hammond
           ,
           and
           others
           .
        
         
           
             Last
             of
             all
          
           ,
           It
           is
           the
           Opinion
           of
           the
           Papists
           themselves
           ,
           that
           their
           Cause
           is
           promoted
           by
           our
           Dissensions
           ;
           and
           ,
           according
           to
           these
           measures
           of
           Judgment
           ,
           they
           govern
           their
           Councils
           .
        
         
           This
           was
           the
           Opinion
           of
           the
           
             Iesuite
             Companella
          
           in
           his
           Discourse
           touching
           the
           
             Spanish
             Monarchy
          
           ,
           written
           about
           the
           Year
           1600
           ;
           and
           ,
           in
           54
           ,
           publish'd
           at
           London
           in
           our
           Language
           .
           *
           
             Concerning
             the
             weakning
             of
             the
          
           English
           (
           says
           that
           Jesuit
           )
           
             there
             can
             no
             better
             way
             possibly
             be
             found
             out
             ,
             then
             by
             causing
             Divisions
             and
             Dissentions
             among
             themselves
             .
             —
             And
             as
             for
             their
             Religion
             ,
             —
             it
             cannot
             be
             so
             easily
             extinguished
             and
             rooted
             out
             here
             ,
             unless
             there
             were
             some
             certain
             Schools
             set
             up
             in
          
           Flanders
           ,
           —
           
             by
             means
             of
             which
             there
             should
             be
             scattered
             abroad
             the
             Seeds
             of
             Schism
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
         
           And
           whether
           these
           kinds
           of
           Seeds
           have
           not
           come
           from
           hence
           to
           us
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           those
           better
           ones
           of
           the
           Brabant-Husbandry
           ,
           remaineth
           not
           now
           any
           longer
           a
           question
           .
        
         
           It
           was
           the
           Advice
           of
           the
           
             Iesuit
             Contzens
          
           ,
           *
           
             To
             make
             as
             much
             use
             of
             the
             Divisions
             of
             Enemies
             ,
             as
             of
             the
             agreement
             of
             Friends
             .
          
        
         
           After
           this
           manner
           it
           is
           that
           they
           manage
           themselves
           ;
           they
           endeavour
           to
           widen
           the
           Breach
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           introducing
           of
           Popery
           into
           a
           divided
           Nation
           .
           They
           will
           have
           hopes
           ,
           as
           long
           as
           we
           have
           Divisions
           .
           They
           will
           believe
           ,
           whilst
           they
           see
           the
           humours
           are
           in
           conflict
           ,
           that
           the
           Body
           will
           be
           at
           last
           dissolved
           .
           If
           they
           will
           hope
           for
           Resettlement
           ,
           as
           they
           declare
           they
           do
           ,
           upon
           such
           inconsiderable
           grounds
           as
           the
           Printing
           of
           a
           Monasticon
           *
           or
           the
           Provincial
           ‖
           of
           Lynwood
           amongst
           us
           ,
           though
           in
           the
           Quality
           of
           History
           rather
           then
           of
           Title
           or
           Law
           ;
           what
           will
           they
           not
           expect
           from
           our
           un-christian
           Distempers
           ,
           and
           from
           our
           forbearing
           of
           Communion
           with
           the
           establish'd
           Church
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           were
           the
           Synagogue
           of
           Satan
           ?
        
         
           By
           this
           Artifice
           it
           is
           that
           they
           gain
           Proselytes
           .
           They
           expose
           the
           Protestants
           as
           a
           
             dis-united
             People
          
           .
           They
           demand
           of
           injudicious
           Men
           how
           they
           can
           ,
           in
           Prudence
           ,
           joyn
           with
           those
           who
           are
           at
           variance
           among
           themselves
           ?
           Though
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           it self
           ,
           there
           is
           much
           more
           agreement
           then
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           in
           which
           (
           they
           say
           )
           there
           are
           great
           numbers
           of
           more
           private
           Deists
           ,
           †
           and
           Socinians
           ,
           and
           some
           (
           we
           are
           certain
           )
           who
           publish
           it
           to
           the
           World
           *
           that
           the
           
             Primacy
             is
             Antichristian
          
           ;
           in
           which
           there
           are
           Solemn
           and
           Publick
           Assemblies
           who
           declare
           openly
           against
           one
           another
           in
           the
           great
           point
           of
           the
           Papal
           Supremacy
           ;
           and
           shew
           ,
           by
           so
           doing
           ,
           that
           (
           in
           their
           Opinion
           )
           their
           common
           head
           cannot
           certainly
           tell
           the
           nature
           of
           his
           Head-ship
           .
        
         
         
           There
           remaineth
           to
           be
           considered
           ,
           the
           
             second
             more
             principal
             End
          
           ,
           
           the
           advancing
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           in
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           to
           greater
           
             Purity
             and
             Perfection
          
           .
        
         
           But
           neither
           in
           this
           is
           their
           expectation
           likely
           to
           be
           answer'd
           .
        
         
           For
           First
           ,
           
             The
             means
             towards
             the
             settling
             of
             themselves
             is
             the
             Dissettlement
             of
             that
             which
             is
             well
             fixed
             .
          
           And
           this
           is
           the
           way
           ,
           not
           to
           a
           greater
           purity
           in
           Religion
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           corruption
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           For
           ,
           it
           removeth
           Charity
           which
           is
           the
           Spirit
           of
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           .
           It
           letteth
           loose
           great
           numbers
           who
           cannot
           govern
           themselves
           ;
           it
           moveth
           
             Unbelievers
             ,
             Atheists
          
           and
           Idolaters
           ,
           to
           pour
           Contempt
           upon
           the
           Church
           of
           Christ
           ;
           and
           confirmeth
           them
           in
           their
           evil
           course
           .
           It
           exposeth
           the
           Church
           as
           a
           Prey
           to
           the
           Common
           Enemy
           .
           Thus
           the
           Divisions
           in
           Africa
           gave
           encouragement
           to
           the
           Arms
           of
           the
           barbarous
           Nations
           ;
           and
           those
           ,
           in
           the
           Aegyptian
           Churches
           ,
           made
           way
           for
           the
           Saracens
           .
           And
           the
           Proposal
           of
           the
           maintenance
           of
           Charity
           and
           pure
           Religion
           by
           the
           overthrow
           of
           a
           tolerable
           Ecclesiastical
           Constitution
           ,
           is
           as
           improbable
           a
           Project
           as
           that
           of
           Flammock
           ;
           who
           ,
           in
           Henry
           the
           7th's
           time
           ,
           *
           prosed
           a
           Rebellion
           without
           a
           breach
           of
           the
           Peace
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           is
           here
           to
           be
           considered
           ,
           that
           those
           who
           dissent
           from
           a
           National
           Church
           ,
           do
           generally
           make
           use
           of
           such
           Junctures
           ,
           as
           are
           apter
           to
           debase
           ,
           then
           refine
           Religion
           .
           They
           often
           move
           for
           Alterations
           in
           the
           Church
           when
           there
           is
           a
           great
           heat
           and
           ferment
           in
           the
           State
           :
           And
           in
           such
           Seasons
           ,
           the
           Form
           of
           a
           Church
           may
           be
           pulled
           in
           sunder
           ,
           but
           there
           is
           not
           temper
           enough
           and
           coolness
           of
           unbyass'd
           consideration
           to
           set
           it
           together
           to
           advantage
           .
           Such
           times
           are
           the
           Junctures
           of
           State
           Dissenters
           ,
           and
           amongst
           them
           Revolutions
           generally
           begin
           ,
           though
           without
           the
           pretence
           of
           reforming
           Religion
           ,
           they
           are
           not
           carried
           on
           amongst
           the
           
           People
           .
           For
           it
           will
           not
           serve
           their
           purpose
           to
           say
           plainly
           ,
           they
           are
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           because
           the
           Government
           is
           against
           their
           Interests
           .
           Now
           ,
           when
           well
           meaning
           Dissenters
           are
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           such
           worldly
           Power
           ,
           they
           will
           not
           be
           able
           to
           establish
           what
           they
           think
           is
           purest
           ,
           but
           that
           which
           pleaseth
           their
           secular
           Leaders
           .
           A
           change
           in
           the
           Church
           naturally
           produceth
           some
           change
           in
           the
           State
           ;
           and
           in
           such
           changes
           who
           can
           secure
           the
           Event
           for
           the
           better
           ?
           The
           words
           of
           Bishop
           Andrews
           *
           ,
           about
           the
           midst
           of
           the
           Reign
           of
           K
           Iames
           ,
           touch
           this
           Point
           ,
           and
           they
           doubtless
           are
           worth
           our
           observation
           .
           When
           (
           said
           he
           )
           
             they
             have
             made
             the
             State
             present
             naught
             ,
             no
             Remedy
             ;
             we
             must
             have
             a
             better
             for
             it
             ,
             and
             so
             a
             change
             needs
             :
             What
             Change
             ?
             Why
             !
             Religion
             ,
             or
             the
             Church-Government
             ,
             or
             somewhat
             (
             they
             know
             not
             what
             well
             )
             :
             stand
             a
             while
             ,
             ye
             shall
             change
             your
             Religion
             (
             said
             they
             of
             this
             day
             [
             the
          
           Gun-powder-Traytors
           ]
           )
           
             and
             have
             one
             for
             it
             wherein
             ,
             to
             your
             comfort
             ,
             you
             shall
             not
             understand
             a
             word
             (
             not
             you
             of
             the
             People
             )
             what
             you
             either
             sing
             or
             pray
             ;
             and
             for
             variety
             ,
             you
             shall
             change
             a
             whole
             Communion
             for
             an
             half
             .
             Now
             ,
             a
             blessed
             exchange
             ,
             were
             it
             not
             ?
             What
             say
             some
             others
             ?
             You
             shall
             change
             for
             a
             fine
             new
             Church-Government
             ;
             a
          
           Presbytery
           
             would
             do
             this
             better
             for
             you
             than
             an
          
           Hierarchy
           ,
           
             and
             (
             perhaps
             )
             not
             long
             after
             ,
             a
             Government
             of
             States
             ,
             then
             a
             Monarchy
             .
             Meddle
             not
             with
             these
             Changers
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           when
           a
           State
           is
           either
           disturb'd
           or
           dissolv'd
           ,
           men
           cannot
           foresee
           all
           the
           ill
           Consequences
           of
           it
           .
           When
           the
           Vessel
           is
           stirr'd
           ,
           the
           Lees
           come
           up
           ,
           which
           lay
           before
           undiscerned
           in
           the
           Mass
           of
           the
           Liquor
           .
           And
           so
           it
           is
           in
           Religion
           ;
           it
           is
           not
           fined
           ,
           but
           rather
           render'd
           less
           pure
           ,
           by
           motions
           in
           the
           Body
           Spiritual
           or
           Civil
           .
           Then
           Politicians
           use
           conscientious
           Instruments
           no
           further
           then
           they
           serve
           a
           present
           purpose
           ;
           and
           for
           new
           Purposes
           they
           find
           new
           Instruments
           .
           One
           of
           the
           Assembly
           
           of
           Divines
           *
           discoursed
           ,
           on
           this
           manner
           ,
           at
           a
           publick
           Fast.
           
             Have
             not
             these
             Trumpets
             and
             these
             poor
             Pitchers
             had
             their
             share
             ,
             and
             a
             good
             share
             too
             ,
             in
             bringing
             down
             the
             Walls
             of
          
           Jericho
           ,
           
             and
             the
             Camp
             of
          
           Midian
           ?
           
             and
             have
             not
             they
             (
             like
             the
             Story
             in
          
           Ezekiel
           )
           
             if
             I
             may
             so
             express
             it
             ,
          
           Prophesy'd
           you
           up
           an
           Army
           ?
           
             The
             Witness
             of
             these
             things
             is
             in
             the
             whole
             Kingdom
             ,
             and
             a
             Witness
             of
             them
             is
             in
             your
             own
             Bosomes
             .
          
           Yet
           the
           Preacher
           was
           very
           sensible
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           that
           those
           whom
           they
           had
           helped
           to
           Power
           ,
           were
           turning
           it
           against
           them
           ,
           and
           breaking
           them
           to
           pieces
           by
           dashing
           Independency
           against
           them
           .
           Aspiring
           Men
           make
           fair
           Promises
           ,
           till
           they
           have
           gained
           their
           point
           ;
           but
           when
           that
           is
           once
           secured
           ,
           they
           take
           other
           Measures
           .
           They
           say
           *
           that
           Maximilian
           ,
           for
           the
           gaining
           of
           Votes
           in
           order
           to
           the
           Empire
           ,
           used
           secret
           Preachings
           to
           please
           the
           
             Protestant
             Princes
          
           [
           the
           
             Elector
             Palatine
          
           ,
           the
           Dukes
           of
           Saxony
           and
           Brandenburgh
           ;
           ]
           and
           went
           openly
           to
           Mass
           to
           please
           the
           
             Popish
             Bishops
          
           of
           
             Mentzs
             ,
             Triers
          
           ,
           and
           Collein
           .
           Also
           ,
           the
           claims
           of
           the
           worldly
           increase
           with
           their
           Power
           :
           And
           (
           for
           illustration-sake
           )
           when
           the
           House
           ,
           being
           garbell'd
           had
           much
           less
           right
           but
           more
           force
           (
           the
           Army
           as
           yet
           agreeing
           with
           them
           and
           the
           good
           King
           being
           in
           their
           hands
           )
           then
           they
           gave
           to
           the
           Declarations
           of
           their
           Pleasure
           the
           Title
           ,
           not
           as
           before
           of
           Ordinances
           ,
           but
           of
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           .
           ‖
        
         
           Oliver
           ,
           likewise
           declared
           plainly
           ,
           *
           
             That
             there
             was
             as
             much
             need
             to
             keep
             the
             Cause
             by
             Power
             ,
             as
             to
             get
             it
             .
          
           And
           being
           potent
           ,
           he
           entred
           the
           House
           ,
           and
           mock'd
           at
           his
           Masters
           ,
           and
           commanded
           ,
           with
           insolent
           disdain
           ,
           that
           
             That
             Bawble
          
           *
           (
           meaning
           the
           Mace
           of
           the
           Speaker
           )
           should
           be
           taken
           away
           .
           Men
           may
           intend
           well
           ,
           but
           using
           the
           help
           of
           the
           illegal
           secular
           Arm
           ,
           they
           can
           never
           secure
           what
           they
           propose
           ,
           but
           frequently
           render
           that
           which
           was
           well
           settled
           ,
           much
           worse
           by
           their
           unhinging
           of
           it
           .
        
         
         
           By
           such
           means
           it
           comes
           to
           pass
           ,
           that
           the
           Civil
           State
           is
           embroyl'd
           ,
           and
           Religion
           sensibly
           decays
           ,
           ●●stead
           of
           growing
           towards
           perfection
           ,
           where
           publick
           order
           is
           interrupted
           ,
           and
           Men
           gain
           a
           Liberty
           which
           they
           know
           not
           how
           to
           use
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           It
           appeareth
           ,
           by
           the
           
             History
             of
             our
             late
             Revolutions
          
           ,
           which
           began
           with
           pretence
           of
           a
           more
           pure
           Religion
           ,
           that
           our
           Dissentions
           occasion'd
           great
           Corruptions
           both
           in
           Faith
           and
           manners
           .
        
         
           Then
           the
           War
           was
           Preached
           up
           as
           the
           Christian
           Cause
           .
           And
           one
           of
           the
           City-Soldiers
           ,
           mortally
           wounded
           at
           Newberry-fight
           ,
           was
           applauded
           (
           in
           an
           Epistle
           *
           to
           the
           Houses
           )
           as
           one
           whose
           Voice
           was
           more
           then
           humane
           when
           he
           cryed
           out
           ,
           
             O
             that
             I
             had
             another
             Life
             to
             loose
             for
             Iesus
             Christ.
             Then
          
           this
           Doctrine
           (
           so
           very
           immoral
           and
           unchristian
           )
           was
           by
           some
           †
           Preached
           ,
           and
           by
           great
           numbers
           embrac'd
           .
           
             The
             Lord
             hath
             no
             more
             to
             lay
             to
             the
             charge
             of
             an
             Elect
             Person
             ,
             yet
             in
             the
             heighth
             of
             Iniquity
             and
             the
             excess
             of
             Riot
             ,
             and
             committing
             all
             the
             Abominations
             that
             can
             be
             committed
             —
             then
             he
             hath
             to
             lay
             to
             the
             charge
             of
             a
             Saint
             Triumphant
             in
             Glory
             .
          
           Then
           certain
           Soldiers
           ‖
           enter'd
           a
           Church
           with
           five
           Lights
           ,
           as
           Emblems
           of
           five
           things
           thought
           fit
           to
           be
           extinguish'd
           ,
           viz.
           The
           Lord's-day
           ,
           Tythes
           ,
           Ministers
           ,
           Magistrates
           ,
           the
           Bible
           .
           Then
           by
           a
           publick
           Intelligencer
           ,
           who
           called
           himself
           
             Mercurius
             Britanicus
          
           **
           the
           
             Lord
             Primate
             Usher
          
           himself
           was
           reproach'd
           as
           
             an
             Old
             Doting
             Apostating
             Bishop
          
           .
           Instances
           are
           endless
           ;
           but
           ,
           what
           need
           have
           we
           of
           further
           Witnesses
           then
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Ministers
             of
             the
             Province
             of
          
           London
           ,
           whose
           Complaints
           and
           Acknowledgments
           are
           here
           subjoyned
           .
        
         
         
           The
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           ,
           
             in
             one
             of
             their
             Ordinances
          
           ,
           *
           ,
           
             use
             these
             words
          
           .
           We
           —
           have
           thought
           fit
           (
           left
           we
           partake
           in
           other
           Mens
           sins
           ,
           and
           thereby
           be
           in
           danger
           to
           receive
           of
           their
           Plagues
           )
           to
           set
           forth
           this
           our
           deep
           sence
           of
           the
           great
           dishonour
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           perillous
           condition
           that
           this
           Kingdom
           is
           in
           ,
           through
           the
           abominable
           Blasphemies
           ,
           and
           damnable
           Heresies
           vented
           and
           spread
           abroad
           therein
           ,
           tending
           to
           the
           Subversion
           of
           the
           Faith
           ,
           contempt
           of
           the
           Ministry
           and
           Ordinance
           of
           
             Jesus
             Christ.
          
           
        
         
           The
           Ministers
           
             made
             a
             like
             acknowledgment
             ,
             saying
             ,
          
           Instead
           ‖‖
           of
           extirpating
           Heresie
           ,
           Schism
           ,
           Profaness
           ;
           we
           have
           such
           an
           impudent
           and
           general
           inundation
           of
           all
           these
           evils
           ,
           that
           Multitudes
           are
           not
           asham'd
           ,
           to
           press
           and
           plead
           for
           publick
           ,
           formal
           ,
           and
           universal
           Toleration
           .
        
         
           
             And
             again
          
           ,
           We
           the
           Ministers
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           do
           hereby
           testify
           to
           all
           our
           Flocks
           ,
           to
           all
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           to
           all
           the
           Reformed
           Churches
           ,
           as
           our
           great
           dislike
           of
           Prelacy
           ,
           Erastianism
           ,
           Brownism
           ,
           and
           Independency
           ;
           so
           our
           utter
           abhorrence
           of
           Anti-Scripturism
           ,
           Popery
           ,
           Arianism
           ,
           Socinianism
           ,
           Arminianism
           ,
           Antinomianism
           ,
           Anabaptism
           ,
           Libertinism
           ,
           and
           Familism
           ;
           with
           all
           such
           like
           ,
           now
           
             too
             rise
          
           among
           us
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           some
           Dissenters
           ,
           by
           the
           
             Purity
             of
             Religion
          
           ,
           mean
           agreeableness
           of
           Doctrine
           ,
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           Life
           ,
           to
           the
           dispensation
           of
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           and
           a
           removal
           of
           humane
           Inventions
           :
           and
           thus
           far
           the
           Notion
           is
           true
           ;
           but
           ,
           with
           reference
           to
           our
           Church
           ,
           it
           is
           an
           unwarrantable
           Reflexion
           .
           For
           it
           hath
           but
           one
           Principal
           Rule
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           the
           Holy
           Scripture
           ;
           and
           Subordinate
           rules
           in
           pursuance
           of
           the
           general
           Canons
           in
           Holy
           Writ
           ,
           are
           not
           to
           be
           called
           in
           our
           Church
           ,
           any
           more
           then
           in
           the
           pure
           and
           Primitive
           Christian
           Church
           ,
           whose
           Pattern
           it
           follows
           ,
           humane
           Imaginations
           ,
           but
           rules
           of
           Ecclesiastical
           Wisdom
           and
           Discretion
           .
        
         
         
           But
           there
           are
           others
           among
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           who
           ,
           by
           the
           
             Purity
             of
             Religion
          
           ,
           mean
           a
           simplicity
           as
           oppos'd
           to
           composition
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           such
           mixtures
           as
           corrupt
           the
           Circumstances
           ,
           or
           parts
           of
           Worship
           which
           in
           themselves
           are
           pure
           .
           Quakers
           and
           some
           others
           believe
           their
           way
           the
           purer
           ,
           because
           they
           have
           taken
           out
           of
           it
           Sacraments
           and
           External
           Forms
           of
           Worship
           ,
           and
           endeavoured
           (
           as
           they
           phrase
           it
           *
           )
           
             to
             bring
             the
             Peoples
             minds
             out
             of
             all
             Visibles
             .
          
           By
           equal
           reason
           the
           Papists
           may
           say
           their
           Eucharist
           is
           more
           pure
           then
           that
           of
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           because
           they
           have
           taken
           the
           Cup
           from
           it
           .
           But
           that
           which
           maketh
           a
           pure
           Church
           ,
           is
           like
           that
           which
           maketh
           a
           pure
           Medicine
           ;
           not
           the
           sewness
           of
           the
           Ingredients
           ,
           but
           the
           good
           quality
           of
           them
           how
           many
           soever
           they
           be
           ;
           and
           the
           aptness
           of
           their
           Nature
           for
           the
           procuring
           of
           Health
           .
        
         
           Men
           
             who
             have
             this
             false
          
           Notion
           
             of
             the
             purity
             of
             Religion
             ,
             distill
             it
             till
             it
             evaporates
             ;
             and
             all
             that
             is
             left
             is
             a
             dead
             and
             corrupt
             Sediment
             .
             And
             here
             I
             have
             judged
             the
             following
             words
             of
             Sir
          
           Walter
           Rauleigh
           
             not
             unfit
             to
             be
             by
             me
             transcribed
             ,
             and
             considered
             by
             all
             .
          
           *
           The
           Reverend
           Care
           which
           Moses
           had
           in
           all
           that
           belong'd
           even
           to
           the
           outward
           and
           least
           parts
           of
           the
           Tabernacle
           ,
           Ark
           ,
           and
           Sanctury
           —
           is
           now
           so
           forgotten
           and
           cast
           away
           in
           this
           
             Superfine
             Age
          
           ,
           by
           those
           of
           the
           Family
           ,
           by
           the
           Anabaptist
           ,
           Brownist
           ,
           and
           other
           Sectaries
           ,
           as
           all
           cost
           and
           care
           bestow'd
           and
           had
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           wherein
           God
           is
           to
           be
           served
           and
           worshipped
           ,
           is
           accounted
           a
           kind
           of
           Popery
           ,
           and
           as
           proceeding
           from
           an
           Idolatrous
           Disposition
           :
           Insomuch
           ,
           as
           time
           would
           soon
           bring
           to
           pass
           (
           if
           it
           were
           not
           resisted
           )
           that
           God
           would
           be
           turned
           out
           of
           Churches
           into
           Barnes
           ,
           and
           from
           thence
           again
           into
           the
           Fields
           and
           Mountains
           ,
           and
           under
           the
           Hedges
           ;
           and
           the
           Officers
           of
           the
           Ministry
           (
           robbed
           of
           all
           Dignity
           and
           Respect
           )
           be
           as
           contemptible
           as
           these
           places
           ;
           all
           Order
           ,
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           Church-Government
           left
           
           to
           newness
           of
           Opinion
           ,
           and
           Men's
           Fancies
           :
           Yea
           ,
           and
           soon
           after
           ,
           as
           many
           kinds
           of
           Religions
           would
           spring
           up
           as
           there
           are
           Parish-Churches
           within
           England
           :
           Every
           Contentious
           and
           ignorant
           person
           clothing
           his
           Fancy
           with
           the
           Spirit
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           his
           Imagination
           with
           the
           gift
           of
           Revelation
           ;
           insomuch
           ,
           as
           when
           the
           truth
           ,
           which
           is
           but
           One
           ,
           shall
           appear
           to
           the
           simple
           multitude
           ,
           no
           less
           variable
           then
           contrary
           to
           it self
           ,
           the
           Faith
           of
           Men
           will
           soon
           after
           dye
           away
           by
           degrees
           ,
           and
           all
           Religion
           be
           held
           in
           scorn
           and
           contempt
           .
        
         
           Fourthly
           ,
           If
           several
           contrary
           Parties
           be
           established
           by
           way
           of
           sufferance
           ;
           no
           progress
           is
           likely
           to
           be
           made
           towards
           the
           perfecting
           of
           Religion
           .
           For
           the
           suffering
           of
           divers
           Errors
           is
           not
           the
           way
           to
           the
           reforming
           of
           them
           .
           One
           Principle
           only
           can
           be
           true
           ;
           and
           the
           blending
           of
           such
           as
           are
           contrary
           with
           it
           ,
           createth
           the
           greatest
           of
           ties
           ;
           a
           mixture
           of
           that
           which
           is
           profane
           ,
           with
           that
           which
           is
           sacred
           .
        
         
           Fifthly
           ,
           Many
           Dissenters
           are
           not
           likely
           to
           erect
           a
           Model
           by
           which
           Christianity
           may
           be
           improved
           amongst
           us
           ,
           because
           they
           lay
           aside
           Rules
           of
           discretion
           ,
           and
           rely
           not
           on
           God's
           assistance
           in
           the
           use
           of
           good
           means
           ,
           but
           depend
           wholly
           upon
           immediate
           illumination
           ,
           without
           the
           aids
           of
           Prudence
           :
           And
           some
           of
           the
           more
           sober
           amongst
           them
           ,
           have
           inclined
           too
           much
           towards
           this
           extream
           .
        
         
           In
           Reformation
           (
           
             said
             one
          
           *
           
             in
             his
             Sermon
             before
             the
          
           Commons
           )
           do
           not
           make
           reason
           your
           Rule
           nor
           Line
           you
           go
           by
           .
           It
           is
           the
           line
           of
           all
           the
           Papists
           .
           —
           The
           second
           Covenant
           doth
           forbid
           ,
           
             not
             only
          
           Reason
           ,
           
             but
             all
          
           Divine
           Reason
           ,
           that
           is
           not
           contain'd
           by
           Institution
           in
           the
           Worship
           of
           God.
           —
           God's
           Worship
           hath
           no
           ground
           in
           any
           reason
           but
           God's
           Will.
           
        
         
         
           Sixthly
           ,
           There
           are
           already
           provided
           in
           this
           Church
           ,
           more
           probable
           means
           for
           the
           promoting
           of
           pure
           Religion
           ,
           then
           those
           which
           have
           been
           proposed
           by
           all
           or
           any
           of
           the
           Dissenting
           Parties
           .
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           each
           Church
           is
           capable
           of
           improvement
           ,
           by
           the
           change
           of
           obsolete
           Words
           ,
           Phrases
           ,
           and
           Customs
           ;
           by
           the
           addition
           of
           Forms
           upon
           new
           Occasions
           ;
           by
           adjusting
           discreetly
           some
           Circumstantials
           of
           External
           Order
           .
           But
           ,
           to
           change
           the
           Present
           Model
           for
           any
           other
           that
           has
           yet
           been
           offered
           to
           publick
           consideration
           ,
           is
           to
           make
           a
           very
           
             injudicious
             bargain
          
           .
           There
           are
           in
           it
           ,
           all
           the
           necessaries
           to
           Faith
           and
           Godliness
           ;
           there
           is
           preserved
           Primitive
           Discipline
           ,
           Decency
           ,
           and
           Order
           :
           And
           ,
           under
           the
           means
           of
           it
           ,
           there
           are
           great
           numbers
           grown
           up
           into
           such
           an
           improvement
           of
           Judicious
           Knowledge
           and
           useful
           ,
           prudent
           ,
           serious
           Piety
           ;
           that
           it
           requireth
           a
           Laborious
           Scrutiny
           to
           find
           Parallels
           to
           them
           in
           any
           Nation
           under
           the
           Heavens
           .
        
         
           I
           do
           not
           take
           pleasure
           in
           distastful
           Comparisons
           .
           Yet
           I
           ought
           not
           (
           sure
           )
           to
           pass
           by
           with
           unthankful
           negligence
           ,
           that
           excellent
           Spirit
           which
           God
           hath
           raised
           up
           among
           the
           Writers
           and
           Preachers
           of
           this
           Church
           ;
           their
           labours
           being
           so
           instrumental
           towards
           the
           right
           information
           of
           the
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           the
           amendment
           of
           the
           Lives
           of
           unprejudic'd
           Hearers
           .
        
         
           It
           must
           be
           confessed
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           some
           trifling
           on
           all
           sides
           :
           And
           it
           will
           be
           so
           whilst
           Men
           are
           Men.
           But
           there
           is
           now
           (
           blessed
           be
           God
           )
           as
           little
           of
           it
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           as
           in
           any
           Age.
           And
           the
           very
           few
           who
           do
           it
           ,
           appear
           plainly
           to
           be
           what
           they
           are
           ,
           Phantasticks
           ,
           and
           Actors
           ,
           rather
           then
           Preachers
           .
           But
           ,
           amongst
           the
           Parties
           ,
           the
           folly
           and
           weakness
           puts
           on
           a
           more
           venerable
           pretence
           ,
           and
           they
           give
           vent
           to
           it
           with
           studied
           shews
           of
           mighty
           seriousness
           ,
           and
           deliver
           it
           solemnly
           as
           the
           immediate
           dictate
           of
           God's
           Holy
           Spirit
           .
           
           And
           I
           cannot
           call
           to
           mind
           one
           Minister
           in
           this
           Church
           ,
           who
           would
           (
           for
           instance
           sake
           )
           have
           deliberately
           used
           these
           words
           of
           Mr.
           Rutherford
           ,
           in
           a
           solemn
           audience
           ,
           *
           and
           after
           his
           solemn
           manner
           .
           
             God
             permits
             Sins
             ,
             and
             such
             Sins
             ,
             that
             there
             may
             be
             room
             in
             the
             Play
             for
             pardoning
             Grace
             .
          
        
         
           It
           seemeth
           also
           ,
           not
           unfit
           for
           me
           to
           take
           notice
           ,
           that
           the
           Changes
           formerly
           made
           in
           Church-matters
           in
           England
           by
           Dissenters
           ,
           were
           not
           so
           conducive
           in
           their
           nature
           ,
           to
           the
           edifying
           of
           the
           Body
           of
           Christ
           ,
           as
           the
           things
           illegally
           removed
           .
           The
           Doctrine
           of
           
             God's
             Secret
             decrees
          
           taught
           in
           their
           Catechisms
           ,
           was
           a
           stronger
           and
           more
           improper
           kind
           of
           meat
           then
           that
           with
           which
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           had
           fed
           her
           Children
           .
           
             Ordination
             by
             a
             Bishop
          
           ,
           accompany'd
           with
           Presbyters
           ,
           was
           more
           certain
           and
           satisfactory
           then
           that
           by
           Presbyters
           without
           a
           Bishop
           .
        
         
           There
           was
           not
           that
           sobriety
           in
           many
           of
           the
           present
           and
           
             unstudied
             Effusions
          
           ,
           which
           appeared
           in
           every
           of
           those
           publick
           Forms
           which
           were
           considered
           and
           fixed
           ▪
           And
           it
           sounded
           more
           decently
           (
           for
           example
           sake
           )
           to
           pray
           in
           the
           Churches
           words
           ,
           and
           say
           ,
           from
           
             Fornication
             Good
             Lord
             deliver
             us
          
           ;
           then
           to
           use
           those
           of
           an
           eminent
           Dissenter
           ,
           *
           
             Lord
             un-lust
             us
          
           .
           Nor
           did
           the
           long
           continued
           Prayers
           help
           Men
           so
           much
           against
           Distraction
           as
           those
           shorter
           ones
           ,
           with
           Breaks
           and
           Pauses
           in
           the
           Liturgy
           ;
           and
           the
           great
           and
           continued
           length
           of
           them
           introduced
           ,
           by
           consent
           ,
           sitting
           at
           Prayer
           .
        
         
           Neither
           did
           it
           tend
           less
           to
           edification
           ,
           to
           repeat
           the
           
             Creed
             standing
          
           ,
           then
           to
           leave
           it
           quite
           out
           of
           the
           
             Directory
             for
             publick
             Worship
          
           .
           Neither
           was
           it
           an
           advantage
           to
           Christian
           Piety
           to
           change
           the
           gesture
           of
           kneeling
           in
           the
           Eucharist
           when
           the
           Sacred
           Elements
           were
           given
           together
           with
           Prayer
           ,
           for
           that
           less
           reverend
           one
           of
           sitting
           :
           Of
           sitting
           especially
           with
           the
           Hatt
           on
           ,
           as
           the
           
           most
           uncomely
           practice
           of
           some
           was
           ;
           the
           People
           being
           taught
           to
           cover
           the
           Head
           ,
           *
           whilst
           the
           Minister
           was
           to
           remain
           bare
           amongst
           them
           .
           Nor
           was
           the
           civil
           Pledge
           of
           the
           
             Ring
             in
             Marriage
          
           ,
           bettered
           by
           the
           invention
           of
           some
           Pastors
           ,
           who
           (
           as
           is
           storied
           of
           them
           )
           took
           a
           Ring
           *
           of
           some
           Women-converts
           ,
           upon
           their
           admittance
           into
           their
           Church
           .
        
         
           Neither
           was
           the
           Alteration
           of
           the
           Form
           of
           giving
           the
           Holy
           Elements
           ,
           an
           amendment
           .
           For
           the
           Minister
           was
           directed
           to
           the
           use
           of
           these
           words
           .
           ‖
           
             Take
             yee
             ,
             eat
             yee
             ;
             this
             is
             the
             Body
             of
             Chirst
             which
             is
             broken
             for
             you
             .
             —
             This
             Cup
             is
             the
             New
             Testament
             in
             the
             blood
             of
             Christ
             ,
             which
             is
             shed
             for
             the
             Remission
             of
             the
             Sins
             of
             many
             .
             —
          
           The
           words
           denoting
           Christ's
           present
           Crucifixion
           ,
           (
           either
           actually
           or
           in
           the
           future
           certainty
           of
           it
           )
           give
           countenance
           to
           the
           Romish
           Sacrifice
           of
           the
           Mass
           ;
           though
           I
           verily
           believe
           they
           were
           not
           so
           intended
           .
        
         
           Nor
           did
           the
           forbidding
           the
           Observation
           of
           Christ's
           Nativity
           and
           other
           Holy-days
           ,
           add
           one
           Hairs
           bredth
           to
           the
           Piety
           of
           the
           Nation
           ;
           but
           ,
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           it
           took
           away
           ,
           at
           least
           from
           the
           common
           People
           ,
           one
           ready
           means
           of
           fixing
           in
           their
           Memories
           the
           most
           useful
           History
           of
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           easy
           enough
           ,
           even
           for
           Men
           who
           are
           Dwarfs
           in
           the
           Politicks
           ,
           in
           such
           sort
           to
           alter
           a
           constitution
           as
           to
           make
           it
           more
           pleasing
           for
           a
           time
           to
           themselves
           during
           their
           Passion
           ,
           and
           the
           novelty
           of
           the
           Model
           in
           their
           Fancy
           not
           yet
           disturbed
           by
           some
           unforeseen
           mischief
           or
           〈◊〉
           ;
           but
           't
           is
           extream
           difficult
           upon
           the
           whole
           matter
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           true
           and
           lasting
           Improvement
           ;
           there
           being
           so
           many
           parts
           in
           the
           frame
           to
           be
           mutually
           fitted
           ,
           and
           such
           variety
           of
           Cases
           in
           Humane
           Affairs
           .
        
         
           I
           pray
           from
           my
           Heart
           for
           the
           bettering
           ,
           but
           I
           dread
           the
           tinkering
           of
           Government
           .
        
         
           
           
             The
             Conclusion
             .
          
           
             IF
             then
             ,
             Dissenters
             are
             not
             likely
             to
             obtain
             their
             Ends
             ;
             of
             Establishing
             themselves
             ,
             of
             rooting
             out
             of
             Popery
             ,
             and
             promoting
             pure
             Religion
             ,
             by
             overthrowing
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             ;
             the
             Inference
             is
             natural
             ,
             they
             ought
             ,
             both
             in
             Prudence
             and
             Christianity
             ,
             to
             endeavour
             after
             Vnion
             with
             it
             .
          
           
             They
             will
             (
             it
             may
             be
             )
             say
             to
             me
             ,
             can
             Men
             be
             persuaded
             two
             contrary
             ways
             ?
             Can
             they
             both
             
               Assent
               and
               Dissent
            
             ?
             And
             whilst
             they
             secretly
             Dissent
             ,
             would
             you
             force
             them
             into
             an
             Hypocritical
             Compliance
             ?
             I
             Answer
             thus
             .
          
           
             First
             ,
             Though
             a
             Man
             cannot
             at
             the
             same
             time
             wholly
             
               Assent
               and
               Dissent
            
             ;
             yet
             there
             are
             means
             for
             the
             rectifying
             of
             a
             false
             persuasion
             ;
             and
             he
             may
             ,
             upon
             good
             Ground
             ,
             change
             his
             Mind
             .
          
           
             Secondly
             ,
             No
             Man's
             Mind
             can
             be
             forced
             ;
             for
             it
             is
             beyond
             the
             reach
             of
             Humane
             Power
             .
          
           
             Thirdly
             ,
             Good
             Governours
             do
             not
             use
             Severity
             to
             force
             Men
             to
             dissemble
             their
             Minds
             ,
             and
             to
             make
             them
             Hypocrites
             ,
             but
             to
             move
             them
             ,
             after
             a
             Tryal
             of
             fair
             means
             ,
             to
             greater
             consideration
             .
          
           
             I
             am
             not
             concerned
             in
             the
             Emblem
             of
             the
             
               Persian
               Dervi
            
             *
             who
             ,
             whilst
             they
             go
             about
             their
             Office
             of
             teaching
             the
             Law
             to
             the
             People
             ,
             carry
             a
             great
             Club
             in
             their
             
             hand
             .
             But
             neither
             do
             I
             think
             that
             the
             best
             way
             to
             remove
             pernitious
             error
             from
             Men
             ,
             is
             never
             to
             give
             them
             any
             disturbance
             in
             it
             .
          
           
             I
             have
             
               two
               things
            
             only
             to
             recommend
             ,
             first
             to
             the
             consideration
             ,
             and
             then
             to
             the
             practice
             of
             such
             as
             Dissent
             .
          
           
             First
             ,
             This
             is
             a
             time
             of
             Prosecution
             ,
             and
             a
             time
             of
             Adversity
             is
             a
             proper
             time
             for
             Consideration
             ,
             and
             Consideration
             is
             a
             means
             to
             make
             us
             hold
             fast
             that
             which
             is
             good
             ,
             and
             reject
             that
             which
             is
             evil
             .
             I
             beseech
             you
             ,
             make
             such
             advantage
             of
             this
             Juncture
             .
             Sit
             down
             ,
             and
             think
             once
             more
             of
             the
             Nature
             of
             this
             Church
             .
             Confer
             with
             the
             Guides
             of
             the
             National
             Religion
             ;
             read
             without
             prejudice
             ,
             the
             Books
             commended
             by
             them
             to
             you
             .
             Peruse
             seriously
             the
             Books
             which
             Authority
             hath
             set
             forth
             .
             Some
             who
             have
             spoken
             against
             them
             ,
             have
             by
             their
             own
             confession
             ,
             never
             read
             them
             .
             Examine
             ,
             and
             Judge
             .
             Many
             of
             your
             Scruples
             have
             arisen
             from
             what
             you
             have
             heard
             ,
             and
             read
             ;
             they
             would
             not
             have
             otherwise
             been
             ingendred
             in
             your
             Minds
             .
             Hear
             and
             Read
             for
             your
             Information
             ,
             as
             well
             as
             your
             entanglement
             .
          
           
             Secondly
             ,
             Do
             as
             much
             as
             you
             can
             do
             .
             Do
             as
             much
             as
             the
             Dissenters
             ,
             who
             are
             most
             eminent
             for
             Learning
             ,
             Piety
             ,
             Preaching
             ,
             Writing
             ,
             Experience
             ,
             and
             Fame
             ;
             sometimes
             actually
             do
             .
             They
             have
             owned
             our
             Communion
             to
             be
             lawful
             .
             *
             They
             have
             received
             the
             Communion
             kneeling
             .
             They
             
             have
             bred
             up
             Children
             to
             the
             Ministry
             of
             this
             Church
             .
             They
             have
             joyned
             in
             the
             Liturgy
             .
             They
             have
             been
             Married
             according
             to
             the
             Form
             of
             it
             .
             Nay
             ,
             one
             who
             assisted
             in
             making
             the
             Directory
             ,
             would
             have
             his
             own
             Daughter
             (
             in
             those
             times
             )
             be
             Married
             in
             the
             way
             of
             the
             Book
             of
             Common-Prayer
             .
             *
             Do
             as
             the
             antient
             Non-conformists
             did
             ,
             who
             would
             not
             separate
             ,
             though
             they
             feared
             to
             Subscribe
             :
             Who
             wrote
             with
             such
             Zeal
             against
             those
             of
             the
             Separation
             ,
             that
             
               Mr.
               Hildersham
            
             was
             called
             ,
             ‖
             
               The
               Maul
               of
               the
            
             Brownists
             .
          
           
             Do
             more
             for
             the
             Peace
             of
             God's
             Church
             ,
             then
             for
             a
             Vote
             ,
             or
             Office
             ,
             or
             Fear
             of
             Legal
             Penalty
             .
             Come
             as
             Christians
             to
             the
             Sacrament
             ,
             and
             not
             as
             Politicians
             .
             Those
             who
             have
             so
             done
             ,
             yet
             break
             the
             unity
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             are
             said
             to
             use
             the
             Arts
             of
             Jesuites
             ,
             and
             to
             be
             without
             all
             excuse
             ,
             by
             a
             Dissenter
             *
             who
             writes
             with
             commendable
             temper
             .
          
           
             
               Do
               constantly
               what
               you
               do
               upon
               occasion
               .
            
             No
             Preaching
             ,
             or
             Praying
             ,
             which
             is
             better
             liked
             ,
             can
             ballance
             the
             evil
             of
             Separation
             from
             a
             Church
             ,
             which
             imposeth
             no
             terms
             of
             Communion
             which
             are
             sinful
             .
          
           
             For
             Peace
             sake
             ,
             let
             that
             be
             more
             constant
             ,
             in
             which
             your
             Conscience
             alloweth
             occasional
             exercise
             .
             A
             Member
             who
             joyns
             himself
             to
             any
             established
             Church
             ,
             and
             also
             to
             any
             Churches
             which
             are
             set
             up
             ,
             not
             as
             legal
             Supplements
             of
             it
             ,
             but
             as
             Forts
             against
             it
             ,
             seems
             to
             be
             a
             kind
             of
             
               Wooden
               Legg
            
             ;
             if
             I
             may
             represent
             so
             grave
             a
             matter
             by
             so
             light
             a
             Similitude
             .
             He
             is
             tyed
             on
             ,
             and
             taken
             off
             ,
             at
             pleasure
             ;
             he
             is
             not
             as
             ,
             by
             natural
             Ligaments
             
             and
             Nerves
             ,
             knit
             to
             such
             Ecclesiastical
             Bodies
             .
             If
             all
             would
             do
             constantly
             what
             they
             can
             
               in
               Conscience
            
             do
             sometimes
             ,
             they
             would
             create
             a
             better
             Opinion
             of
             themselves
             ,
             in
             the
             Governours
             ,
             and
             move
             them
             to
             all
             due
             favour
             ,
             and
             hinder
             all
             the
             destructive
             breaches
             amongst
             us
             .
             For
             the
             remain
             of
             other
             Dissenters
             would
             be
             so
             inconsiderable
             ,
             as
             to
             abide
             in
             the
             Body
             of
             the
             Nation
             ,
             as
             ill
             humors
             thrown
             off
             to
             the
             extream
             parts
             ,
             from
             which
             there
             may
             arise
             some
             little
             pain
             ,
             but
             no
             mortal
             danger
             .
          
           
             Now
             ,
             the
             God
             of
             Peace
             grant
             Peace
             to
             us
             always
             ,
             by
             all
             fit
             means
             .
          
           
             The
             END
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A64350-e630
           
             The
             Introduction
             .
          
           
             The
             Argument
             it self
             .
             It
             s
             Partition
             and
             Method
             .
          
           
             The
             Ends
             of
             the
             Dissenters
             .
          
           
             *
             Melvil's
             Memoirs
             p.
             2.
             
          
           
             The
             first
             Branch
             of
             the
             first
             End
             of
             the
             Dissenters
             :
             viz.
             Union
             in
             a
             National
             Church
             .
          
           
             *
             July
             17.
             1640.
             
             
             Whitlock's
             Memorials
             p.
             45.
             
          
           
             *
             A.
             1644.
             
             Id.
             ibid.
             p.
             117.
             
          
           
             *
             In
             Sept.
             15.
             1646.
             
             Diurnal
             ,
             p.
             1313.
             
          
           
             
             Whitlock's
             Memoirs
             .
             p.
             187.
             
          
           
             *
             Id.
             ib.
             p.
             116.
             
             A.
             44.
             
          
           
             Ib.
             A.
             45.
             p.
             189.
             
          
           
             *
             Harm
             Consent
             .
             p.
             20.
             
          
           
             *
             Mr.
             S.
             Symp.
             
               in
               Serm.
               of
               Reform
            
             .
             A
             ▪
             1643.
             p.
             29.
             
          
           
             *
             D
             ▪
             
               Iohn
               Arr.
            
             in
             Ser.
             call'd
             ,
             
               The
               Great
               Wonder
            
             ,
             &c.
             before
             the
             Commons
             .
             A.
             1646.
             p.
             36.
             
          
           
             *
             Testim
             .
             to
             Truth
             of
             Jesus
             Christ
             subsiribed
             Dec.
             14.
             1647.
             p.
             31.
             
          
           
             ‖
             See
             Hist.
             of
             Indep
             .
             2
             part
             .
             p
             168.
             
          
           
             *
             In
             Myst.
             of
             Godlin
             ,
             &c.
             Anno.
             1649.
             
             Wynst
             .
             in
             Saints
             Paradise
             
               C.
               5.
               p.
            
             54.
             &c.
             
          
           
             *
             Whid
             .
             
               Memoirs
               .
               A.
               1649.
               p.
            
             430.
             
          
           
             *
             Id.
             ibid.
             
          
           
             *
             Salmon's
             Rout.
             
               in
               Pref.
               and
            
             p.
             10
             ,
             11
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             *
             On
             Sund.
             after
             East
             .
             day
             .
             Ann.
             1649.
             
             
               H.
               of
            
             Indep
             .
             part
             2.
             p.
             153.
             
          
           
             ‖
             See
             View
             of
             the
             late
             Troubles
             .
             p.
             366.
             
          
           
             †
             E.
             M.
             L
             C.
             
          
           
             *
             Whitl
             .
             Memoirs
             .
             A.
             1654.
             p.
             592.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             their
             Declar.
             in
             A.
             1655.
             in
             Whitl
             .
             Me.
             p.
             606.
             
          
           
             ‖
             See
             Ed.
             Burroughs
             Trumpet
             of
             the
             Lord
             sounded
             .
             
               p.
               2.
               
               A.
            
             56.
             
          
           
             †
             Whitl
             .
             Memoirs
             .
             p.
             624.
             
          
           
             *
             Testim
             .
             to
             the
             Truth
             of
             I.
             Chr.
             p.
             30.
             
          
           
             *
             Mr.
             H●●l
             .
             &c.
             
          
           
             ‖
             The
             Title
             of
             Mr.
             
             Edwards's
             book
             .
             1647.
             
             See
             Testim
             .
             of
             Min.
             p.
             20.
             
          
           
             *
             Oliver's
             
               Speech
               in
               the
            
             Painted
             Chamber
             .
             Ian.
             22.
             54
             at
             the
             Dissolv
             .
             of
             the
             Parl.
             p.
             29.
             33.
             
          
           
             *
             Mr.
             Caryl
             in
             Ep.
             Ded.
             bef
             .
             Ser.
             called
             the
             Arraign
             .
             of
             Unbelief
             .
             A.
             45.
             
          
           
             The
             s●cond
             Branch
             of
             the
             1st
             End
             of
             the
             Dissenters
             .
             viz.
             Union
             by
             mutual
             forbearance
             .
          
           
             *
             A
             1647.
             
             Act
             of
             Assemb
             .
             p.
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             Harmon
             .
             Consent
             .
             A.
             1648.
             p.
             12.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Protect
             .
             Speech
             .
             Ian.
             22.
             54
             p.
             28.
             
          
           
             *
             Petil.
             ap
             .
             
               S.
               Aug.
            
             cont
             Petil.
             l.
             2.
             
             Absit
             ,
             Absit
             à
             nostra
             conscientia
             ,
             ●t
             ad
             nostram
             fidem
             aliquem
             comp
             .
             Ilamus
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Mr.
             Cal●my
             in
             Ser.
             called
             ,
             
               The
               great
               danger
               of
               Covenant
               refusing
               .
            
             A.
             46.
             p.
             3.
             
          
           
             *
             Lord
             
             Bacon's
             Pref.
             to
             Adv.
             of
             Learn
             .
          
           
             ‖
             
             Whitlock's
             Memories
             .
             p.
             276.
             
          
           
             *
             Episc.
             Exam.
             Thes.
             Cap.
             Op.
             vol.
             1.
             par
             .
             2.
             p.
             185.
             
          
           
             ‖
             See
             Lettres
             Sinceres
             .
             Trois
             .
             partie
             Sixieme
             Lettre
             .
             p.
             111.
             
          
           
             Ruarl
             .
             Epist.
             par
             .
             1.
             p.
             415
             ,
             416.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             Spirit
             of
             the
             Hatt
             .
             p.
             12
             ,
             13
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             ‖
             p.
             27.
             
          
           
             †
             p.
             41.
             
          
           
             The
             Principal
             End
             of
             the
             Dissenters
             the
             first
             part
             of
             it
             .
          
           
             *
             Florentissima
             Anglia
             Ocellus
             ille
             Ecclesiarum
             ,
             Peculium
             Christi
             singulare
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             *
             Coll.
             of
             Lett.
             p.
             8.
             &c.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             
               L.
               de
               Moulin's
            
             Advances
             ,
             
               &c.
               p.
            
             26.
             
          
           
             *
             De
             Confess
             .
             Advers
             .
             
               H.
               Hammond
            
             .
             c.
             1.
             p.
             97
             ,
             98.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             Rational
             Discourse
             of
             Prayer
             chiefly
             of
             Mystic
             Contemplation
             .
             
               chap.
               14.
               pag.
            
             74.
             
          
           
             *
             A
             Bright
             Star
             centring
             in
             Christ
             our
             perfection
             .
             
               Printed
               for
            
             H.
             Overton
             in
             Popes-Head
             Alley
             1646.
             
          
           
             *
             Ch.
             18.
             p.
             189.
             
          
           
             *
             Picchia
             -
             〈◊〉
             
               S.
               R.
               C.
            
             Posth
             .
             p.
             125.
             
          
           
             *
             Hist.
             des
             troubles
             dela
             grand
             Bret.
             a
             Paris
             1661.
             liv
             .
             3.
             p
             165
             See
             short
             view
             of
             the
             late
             Troubl
             .
             p.
             564.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Arbitr
             .
             Government
             p.
             28.
             
          
           
             †
             See
             Whitl
             .
             Memoirs
             .
             p.
             279
             ,
             280
             282.
             
          
           
             *
             Exact
             Coll.
             p
             647.
             
          
           
             *
             Id.
             ibid.
             p.
             405.
             
          
           
             *
             Gangrena
             p.
             16
             par
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Narr
               .
               sent
               up
               to
               the
               Lords
               from
               the
               Bishop
               of
            
             Hereford
             p.
             7.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Prot.
             Declaration
             Octob.
             31.
             1655.
             
          
           
             *
             
               In
               the
               Life
               of
               Bish.
            
             Fisher.
             p.
             260
             ,
             261.
             
          
           
             †
             V.
             Elench
             Mot.
             par
             .
             2.
             p.
             341.
             
          
           
             ‖
             H.
             Indep
             .
             part
             2.
             p.
             245
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             Mr.
             
             Cotton's
             
               Lr.
               Exam.
            
             A.
             44.
             p
             4
             ,
             5.
             
             
               Simplicit
               .
               defence
            
             .
             A.
             1646.
             p.
             22.
             
             Min.
             of
             Prov.
             of
             Lond.
             Testim
             p.
             18.
             
          
           
             †
             Gee
             
               's
               Foot
               out
               of
               the
               Snare
               .
            
             p.
             58
             ,
             59.
             
             A.
             1621.
             
          
           
             *
             Campan
             .
             Disc.
             of
             Span.
             Mon.
             c.
             25.
             p157
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Cont●
               .
               Polit.
            
             l.
             2.
             chap.
             18.
             
             Sect
             9.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Journal
               des
               Scavans
               de
               l'
            
             Ann.
             1665.
             p.
             140.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Iourn
             .
             &c.
             
               de
               l'
            
             An.
             1666.
             p.
             230
             ,
             233.
             &c.
             
          
           
             †
             V.
             Polit.
             of
             France
             ,
          
           
             *
             Moyens
             Surs
             ,
             &c.
             pour
             la
             conversion
             de
             tous
             les
             Heretiques
             .
          
           
             The
             second
             part
             of
             the
             second
             or
             more
             Principal
             End
             of
             the
             Dissenters
             .
          
           
             *
             L.
             Bac.
             H.
             7.
             p
             164.
             
          
           
             *
             Ser.
             6.
             on
             Nov.
             5.
             1614.
             
          
           
             *
             D.
             
               J.
               L.
            
             on
             Psal.
             4.
             4.
             
             Feb.
             24.
             
             A.
             1647.
             
          
           
             *
             
             Melvil's
             Mem.
             p
             33.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Whitl
             .
             Memoirs
             .
             p.
             363.
             
          
           
             *
             Speech
             at
             the
             Dissol
             .
             of
             the
             House
             .
             Ian.
             22.
             1654.
             p.
             22.
             
          
           
             *
             Id.
             ibid.
             p.
             529.
             
          
           
             *
             Hill's
             Se●
             .
             called
             Temple
             work
             .
             A.
             1644.
             
          
           
             †
             D.
             Crisp
             in
             Ser.
             called
             ,
             
               Our
               sins
               are
               already
               laid
               on
               Christ.
            
             p
             274
             ,
             275.
             
          
           
             ‖
             H.
             of
             Indep
             .
             part
             .
             2.
             p
             152
             ,
             153.
             
          
           
             **
             Mert.
             Brit.
             N
             13.
             
             Nov.
             A.
             43.
             p.
             97.
             
          
           
             *
             Die
             Jovis
             .
             Febr.
             4.
             1646.
             
          
           
             ‖‖
             Testlm
             .
             to
             Truth
             of
             
               I.
               Chr.
            
             p.
             31.
             
          
           
             *
             G.
             Fox
             in
             .
             J.
             Perrot
             
               's
               Hidden
               things
               brought
               to
               light
               .
            
             p.
             11.
             
          
           
             *
             Hist.
             of
             the
             
               World.
               l.
               2.
               1.
               part
               c.
               5.
               p.
            
             249.
             
          
           
             *
             Mr.
             
               S.
               Sympson
            
             In
             A.
             1643.
             
             Reform
             .
             Preservat
             .
             pl
             26
             ,
             27.
             
          
           
             *
             Ruth
             .
             on
             Dan.
             6.
             26.
             p.
             8.
             
             A.
             1643.
             bes
             .
             the
             Commons
             .
          
           
             *
             Prayers
             at
             the
             end
             of
             Farewell
             Sermons
             .
             Mr.
             U's
             Prayer
             bef
             .
             Serm.
             p.
             31.
             
          
           
             *
             
             Edwara's
             Gangrena
             .
             part
             1
             Error
             112.
             p.
             25.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             Edw.
             Grangr
             .
             2.
             part
             p.
             13.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Directory
             for
             publick
             Worship
             .
             p.
             27.
             
          
           
             *
             Tavern
             .
             
               Pers.
               Trav.
               l.
               4.
               c.
            
             6.
             p.
             155
             ,
             156.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             Lawf
             .
             of
             hearing
             the
             publick
             Ministry
             ,
             &c.
             by
             Mr.
             Nye
             ,
             Mr.
             Robinson
             ,
             &c.
             and
             Mr.
             Corbet's
             Non-Conformists
             Plea
             for
             Lay-Communion
             .
          
           
             *
             Mr.
             Marshall
             in
             Hist.
             of
             Indep
             .
             1
             part
             p.
             80.
             
          
           
             ‖
             See
             Dr.
             Willit's
             Epistle
             Dedicatory
             before
             his
             Harm
             .
             on
             1
             
               Sam.
               Schismaticorum
               (
               Qul
               vulgò
               Brownistae
               )
               malleum
               .
            
          
           
             *
             Vox
             .
             〈…〉
             6.
             p.
             49
             ,
             50
             ,
             &c.