[ 27 ] And we longed to be reconciled to thofe that "~e had differed from efpecially in matters of Reli· gion. Among others more confiderable, I attempted inWorcefterjhire a Reconciliation with them. I tryed firft wits my Neighbours : The Gentry that I fpake with of the Royal Party, profeffed willingnefs, and that they defired but the Security of the Eifencials of Epifcopacy. Dr. Good and Dr. Warmflrie with others of them Subfcribed their approbation .to our Agreement: When I tryed with others difiant, Bifhop Vjher eaGly con– fented, Bifhop Brownrig on fomewhat harder terms, but fuch as would have healed us; Dr. Hammond on harder yet, but yetfuch as we' could have born fave that he left all eo the uncertain de– termination of a Convocation. Eut fhortly Dr. Warniftrie withdrew his Confent, and as the re~fon of it fent me a Writing againfi: our Agree· ·ment, faying, It was a confederacy with Schifm, and labouring to prove that they were na Mini.. fters or Churches which had not Epifcopal Ordi– nation, and much more to that effect. I wrote a full anfwer to it, which fatisfied all ·that I lhewed it to, but did not publifh it. 'Ihe writing anfwer· ed was Dr. Peter Guning's, now Bilhop of Eli• .Prefently I found this opinion, That they were na true Minifters or Churche:> that had not an uninter... rupted Succejfion ·of Diocefane Ordination from the ./Jpeffles, but that they were true MiniHers and Churches that had Roman Ordination~ became the ftop to our de!ired Agreement, and I faw that ic proclaimed an Utter renunciation of the Reform.. . ed Churches which have no fuch Succefiion, and yet aCoalition with the Roman Clergy, though the ·
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