[ !07 ] ' ' ' ter (Fuller Ch. Hill:. lib. 1 r. p. 2 I 7.) who holds ,' 'it as unlawful to be undertaken,as it was impoffi– ' ble to be effeeted--Anfrv. If it be a Crime it's ·' Novum Crimen of a NelV ftamp, never coined be– ' fm·e...-·--As to the Impoffibility, many Men of ' Eminence for Parts and Piety have thm:ght other.:. ' wife·-·(Spalatenfis and SanCi-a Clara arenamed ' as Reconcilers.)' And if without prejudice to 'the Truth, the ControverGes might have been ' ' compofed, it is mofi probable that other Prore- ' fiant Churches would have fued by their Agents ' to be included in the Peace. If not, the Church ' 'of England had loft nothing by it, as being hated 'by the Calvinifis, and not loved by the Lu- ' therans. · · . ' Admitting then that fuch aReconcil ia tion was 'endeavoured betwixt rhe Agents of ,both Chur- ' ches, Let us next fee what our great States- ' men have difcourfed upon that particular, oh. 'what terms the Agreement was to have been 'made, and how far they proceeded in ir And ' firfi, the Book entituled; The Pope's Nuntio , af~ 'firmed to have been written by rhe Venetian ' Embaifador at his being in England doth dif- ' courfe thus: As to a ReGonciliation , faith he, '·between the Churches of Er:gland and Rome, ' there were made fome general Propoutions and ' Overtures by the Archbii11op's Agents, they affu· ' r1ng that his Grace was very much difpofed . ' thereto : and that if it was not accomplifhed in 'his Life-time; it would prove a work of more ' difficulty after his Death ; that in very truth for ' the 1aft three Years the Archbi!hop had intra· ' duced fome Innovations, approathing nearer the ~ Rites and .forms of Rome : That the Biihop of 'Ch4hefter, •
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