• [ 28 ] ·the Bi!hops of Rome have bad the mofc notorious interciftons. And having ' read Grotim his · Dif– cuj]io Apologetici Rivetiani in which he more plain.:. )y pleads for Canonical Popery, than he had doae in his Votum, or Confultatio, &c. I thought I was bound in Confcienc'e to give notice to the Royal– ills of the Grotian Party and. DeGgn, and afrei printed a·{mall Collection out ofGrotim his own w9rds: Thefe Dr. Pierce wrote aga~nfi, and others were offended at. But in the Second Part Gfmy Key for Catholicks, I !hewed the utter impoffibi– lity of this Conceit of Sovereign Government 'by General Councils. t XVIII. When God was pleafed by the re– floration of the King t0-raife Mens hopes of Pro– teftant Agreement , I need not repeat what was ~one wwards it ; among many worthier Perfons by my Self, -the Earl of Manche[fer and the Earl of Orery firfi makihg from us the p10tion to His Majefiy, who readily c<lnfented, and granted us the healing Terrt)s exprefi in His gracious Decla– ration of EccleGafiical Affairs r66I ; for which the London rvtinifiers fubfcribed a Thankfgiving, and th~ Hou(e .of Commons gave him their Pub– lick Thanks, as making for the Publick Concord. But when the King under the Broad Seal granted .a Commiilion to many on both Sides, to treat and agree of fuch Alterations of the Licurgy as were neceffary to tender Confciences, and the Bi01ops and their Drs. yielded not to the Leaft, but to the 1afi maintained that none were nece!fary for them; I faw in the Manner and the Ijfue with whom it was , that we had to do , and confequently what Eng– land mull: . expecr. I eafily perceived that much more would be impofed. fo1· I faw what fome · · intended,
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