[ '4)2 ] to give up·all theit· Abby Lands, as long as they tl?oright a fufficien·t ~~nifiry. competently pro– VIded for: And unwdlmg to take the Pope or Clergies promifes for fecurity for the continuance of their Poffeffions, yea and to fave them from being burnt as Hereticks.' , . § 2 3. XXII. And no doubt but common rea· fon told them how great a part of Enf!.la.nd ( not the unwifefi nor >the worfi) WOQld refufe confent _., to the Coalition :with Rpme, and the nearer ap• proaches when impofed, ·and therefore what a doleful encreafe it would make of our Divilion·s: Ifwe are fo fac{ly divided already by a few Oaths and .Promifes, and New Covenants and Formali– ties, and Church Judicatures 1 how many hundred thoufand more would diffent, if all were impofed which the new Church-men judge neceffizry eo· the Union with Rome.? § 24. And thefe would unav · ably draw ort a grievous Perfecurion : For whe all this fiir, lofs, cofr and hazard had been made to bring on fuch a general Concord, Diffenrers would no£ have been endured by the Cle1·gy, when yet they would be multiplied. _ , § 2 5. And ho~ much fuch aDivifion and Per– fecution would weaken the Kingdom, they that did not believe Cbrifr ( drat a Kingdom divided ~ainfr it felf cannot fiand ) m~gh~ ealily know by reafon and the Worlds expenence. . § 26. On fuch accounts as thefe the t\"/0 forts o£ Epifcopal Conformifis differed, and the old Tribe called then the Church of England, refifted the endeavours made by Bi!hop Ltwd and fuqh a·s A. Bifhop Bromhafl, and the refi: that were for a Coalition wich Rome. · Till the laner got imo , , ihe ( /
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