'I ' [ 24 r] the French Jefuits, efpecially Pet.tvim, grew to that,approbation of the Moderate French Popery, which ·I have here after proved, and to that de· fire of reducing _the Protefiants to them, which not only Valefim Orat. in Obit. Petavii, but'his own . Writings fully ·tefiifie. And his delign was to \.bring Ro'f!le as the Mifl:refs Church, to Rule, not ~rbitrarily, but by the Canons of Councils, fecu– ri ng the Right of Kings and Bifhops, and cafting afide the Schoolmens fubtil vain Difpu,tes, and re– forming the bad lives of the Clergy, and fome finall mutable things ; and in this to draw in the Church of France, and England to agree, and the Qgeen of Sweden, and if poffible the Lutherans, and to crufh the Calvini.fts as unreconcileable : AnJ he tells us how many in England favoured · what he did, though thofe whom he mifcallech Iirownifts were againll: it. § IV. The Church of England and the Parlia· rnent being before difcontented at the Marriage– Articles as to Toleration, and at the Popes Ag~nts and Nuntio's here in London, were much more of- ,fended at the changes fuddenly made by Biiliop , La1td, · The. 'blotting out the name of the Pope and Anticbrifl:, and the Zeal for Altars. and Bow– ings, and the report of aTreaty for Union with Rome, Printed by fome with the particulars, and their conceit that Armisianifm lookt towards- Po. pery, and the calling out many Conformable Mi· nifiers, ana many fuch things, efpecially when they thought rhe Liberty of their Perfons, and their .Prqperties had·been Invaded, and that A. Bifhop L aud, and the new Clergy Men, ( 'ibthorp, Main– waring) H ey/in, &c. ) were the Caufe of all ; I faf, Theft things railing i.1l men adreap of Popery . , our. •
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