[ 86 ] mp mank, an'O mp ([rctJtt in tte ([ourt!> bp .tonti:: t~ttin;J in tl)e <lf.rercife of t~c lRclt!Jion of itc ([l)nttb of England, tl)an qtt>it all tl)cfe tbing~ in a bte\n anb l)ope of tl)c gron tttng~ of tl)e life to tome ; but tl)o~augl) tl)e ~etcp of <lBon, ml)icl) inlfgl)tm~ tl)ofe tl)at reek it , 3! fdt no pain o~ tJifficultp in making tl)c tl)otcc 31 l)abe. ' 31 tlJall onlp fap tl)at an mp fear l)at~ been ' left tl)e pro~ ([at~olick~ of tl)i~ ([ountrep fiJOttli:J fuffet mucl) on tl)~-occafion of mp <[onbetfion, ann tl)at dBon ffJottln nor gibe me tl)c <lf5~acc to fuffec patitntlp \nttl) tl)cm tl)e Wtfgrace~ ani:J .affliction~ of tl)i~ liifc to merit tl)e qetcrnal. At St. J~mes th~ 8thof Auguft, 1970. · Poflfcript. BUt fince the firfi writing of this, the Publick Matter of Fad hath taught tbe World how little Caufe thofe that he calleth tbe Heads of the Presbyterians and Independants, or any others,had to believe Bifhop Morley's confident Teftirno– py, of one or other; Or honefi Mr. Gache's Let– ter to me, or the reH: of the Ftench Letters ·publiilied with it by Lauderdale. I cannot forget Dr. Morley's words to my felf in Jan. 1659· be- . fore King Charle:r II. came in , 'that moft on this fide the A lpes would joyn with the Church of E~gtand, were it not for the blocks that Calvin I1ad Jaid i.n the way ; And this he knew by his ccinverfe with ~hem. But this Coalition·'''as not– to be our becoming Papiils, (quoad nomen~ but France forfooth, if not Ft~mders too, would turn Protefiants (as they have done.) I knew not wben I writ this Book, r. OfKing J (lmes's Paper publiihed as fm;md in. K.ing Char 1 les ne •
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