[ 333 J had they not Preached for , and ptomoced th~ Kings power to Raife T.ax~s wic~ouc aPErliamen~. But this leyavened the Nauon w1th an Averfeneis to · the Frenchified- :Reconcilers. And ~he Scots knowing all this, began .Rdii1ance' which pro– ceeded to aMutual diffidence of King and People, which broughtf forth after aCivil-War. § 3· While the King and Parlia_rnent were La– bouring under the Mortal Difeafe of mutual di– firufi, the Irijh by an Infurretiion , Murdered moll: Barbaroufly two hundred thoufand Frote– fiants, ( juft the day Twelmonth before Edghil Fight, Dublin efcaped : ) f\.nd this Horrid Cruelty , hafiened the War in Epglttnd, and made Popery more odious than 'ever it was before ,; and render– ed the French Conciliators more difiafied. § 4· The Conciliators having the chief Ecclefi ; afiical Power under King Charles t and having too much Modelled the Churches and Univerli– ties to their Minds, the Parliament began a Re– formation before the War, and carryed it on after, and caft out many Hundred for Infufficiency through grofs ignorance , and for Drunkennefs, and Vicious Lives : And forne for being againfi: 1 the Parliament; and profpering till Cromwell cafl: them out , and Cromwcll going much further a– gainft Prelatical Tyranny, and an ignorant Vici– ous Minifiry than they, thirteen or fourteen or fifteen years time , not only flopt the Fre11ch de– fign of Coalition , but alfo wore out the chiefde– figners and promoters of it : To which the Death of Laud, with all the Accufatioris againfl: him, , firuck. deep: (of which fee Prins Imroduetions, and his Canterburies Tryal.) And many old Con– fonnifis (which was all the Weftminfter Affembly . .- - --- - . ~
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