[ 336 ] diCtion : And a Government like that of the .French Church mull:· be faid to be no Popery,_ but only that which made the Pope Arbitrary,or Super- / eminent aboveCouncils:And the very retaining of Jhe N~me of Popery in their Renunciation,fpoil'd their Game : And fpecially being neceffitated to avoid Sufpicion, to make divers firm Protefiants, Eilhops, Deans and Judges. Yet the flow way of K. Ch. II. ·was like to have been the furefi, could their Patience have held out. . ,§ 7. But God uf~d K.1ames II• .as the great In- · firument of frufiratmg all the Plot (till now); by his and his Infiigaters Impatience of this delay, and confidence of a more fpeedy way of Succefs : So that he refolved to put it to a fpeedy upfhot, and ' would have all or ·none : which brought the · Changes which we have fince feen. . _§ 8. But is the Church of England yet delivered from all the Inclination to aForeign Jurifdietion, and the French Government ? The Oath of Su- ~ premacy made it feem hard to perjure the whole Land, that had renounced all foreign JurifdiClion. , But many devifed ·an Expofitory ·Evafion (that only a Civil Jurifdittion was meant; though the Ecclefiafiick alfo was named). ·Should there be brit a new attempt by fuch as the former Rulers probably made , is it not like that Men of the French or Grotian Principles will promote it; yea, and be glad of French affill:ance ?- · . . I doubt tbey tbat would Perjure the Kingdom by a foreigo.' Jurifdittion, will debate this odd Q!efiion. . . Qy.. Whether all that Profefs or Swear that it u Vnlawful on any Pretence whatever to refift the King, or any Commijfioned by him in the Execution of that _ • · · - - - - · ~9.'!!.miffion,
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