[ 2) ] our greater . difiances were here begun: And I though in A. Bi{bop .Abbot's days the Church of England was againfi the Syncretifm, and fewwent with Bi01op Laud-at firfi, be afterwards got many ' to adhere tohim~ He that would fee all the Cafe in an unfufpeded Author, let him read Dr.Hey– lins Life of A. B. Laud., where he iliaU find much of the proceedings, and the Articles and Reafons of the Treaty with the Papifts. And if he add Laud's Tryal, and Rufhworth's Colleet:ions, he may fee more. 'Heylin tells us that the Deftgn was but to bring the P?pifis in to us, by removing that which kept them out: They that feared a Tole– ration of Papifis did much more fear a Comprehen– jion or Coalition, though their Converjion they de– fired : For they knew that they mufi frill be Mem– bersofthe fa1fe ·univerfal Papal Kingdom, ' a'nd ' , that we mull: in the greatefi points come to them, who.without changing their Religion could not come .to us : And if we could hardly now keep out thePope,what iliould we do when he had got fo much more advantage ofus ? Belides, all other Changes we mull: change our very Church~fpecies, or elfe we fhould not be of the fame Church, though we fate in the fame Sears: For a Church which is but a fubjeEt part of a Sovereign greater Church,)sno more ofthe fame(pecies ..rith one that isfubjeft to no other ( but Chrift ) than our Cities · llre of the fame fpecies with a Kingdom. § XVI. Thefe difiances between the old Church-men and the Laudians having increafed to that whidrthey came to in I 641. fuddenly on OClob. 23. the Iriih Rebellion Murdering two , hun~red. thoufand, and Fame threatening ,their com1ng mto Engl4nd, cafi the Nation into fo great •
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