Chap. )(XII. How they have heen fif!pt, a~d i1t . what Vcmger u.•e are yet of thofe that are , . for aForreign Jurifd:Cl ion. § I· THe continual Endeavours of Parliaments _ to Supprefs all the Relicts and Advanta~ ges of Popery in Qgeen Eli:vtpeths and King James Days ,, long kept this Papal inclination from ap· pearing: And when Laud raiftd it up, and King Jt!tmes and BuckjnghamCountenanced it, to pro– mote ,firfi the SpaniP1, and after the French Marri– age, the Articles of Liberty for Popery, Con· fented to -by King 'James, and after Ratified by _ King Charles, greatly Difiafied_ the Nobility and Gentry, and the People much more; fo that the Kings and Pa,riiaments were riever after eafy to each other, till King Charles II. got a Parliament fitted to his turn. · § z. The new raifed Impolitions of KingCharles. I. and Lated firfl: Exafperated the old conformable · Clergy, by ~ ufpending and vexing them, for not reading the Book for Sports on the Lords Days , and for· Preaching twice a Day , and by Altars and Bowing, and : other Innovations: \ And the Severities againfiBurton,Prin andBajlwiclz. madea mutmuring noife ; And the driving many hundred Families of Godly Men out of the Land, ·much more. And the newly Altered and Impo– fed Liturgy, Exafperated the Scots, who were En- - couraged by the Englitl1 Difcontents: Yet all this had done the lefs , had not the fame Church 7 Innovaters been againfiParliamems1and kept them our, becaufe' Parliam6nts were again!fthem : And · ' · · had
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