I , [ _5.22 ] fuch other. ·And if th~ ·difpofing of fuch advan. rages for Reli'gion were now committed to Diifen– ters, whom would they fooner chufe for Power therein than their moft efteemed Paftors? 3· When Em.percars, Kings and Lords did pill and oppr~fs the poor Commons, (as in England in the Reign ofWilliam the Conqueror.,W.Rujm,&c.) the Bifhops were the only men that by the Power ofthe Pope were able to controul them, and for ~he honour of their Office, oft attempted it : And therefore the innocent oppreifed People were glad of the Pope's help and theirs, ·to eafe their yoke.. , 4· It was the Godly People to promote Chri– fti~micy, and honour the memory of the Martyrs and Saints, that bring in the Praying at their Gr;1ves, and building Altars firfi, and Churches after to retain the honour ofrheir names; and that carried and kept their hones and cloaths as·ho– nom·able Relicts, and recited their names in their Service, and kept and honoured their Pictures,and after prayed to them. Much of that Superftirion . . that is nowmoft decried by us, was brought by the moft religious fort. 5. Almoft all the Societies of Fryers and Nuns, BenediCtines, Francifcans, Dominicans, Cartbu,. fians; Jefuirs, Oratorians ,&c.· have been fet up by . the moft zealou{ly Religious, when any fancied a peculiar way of fcriC'cnefs,the Bifh9psbeing againft it, they made friends to tbe Pope to give them his Licence to ferve God in ·their own devifed way, crnd to have Government in their own So– ciety w,ithout the Bilhopscomroul: And the Pope craftily granted it, that they migh[ all be his own, and maimain hisPqwer' which they "':ere neceffita– ted eo depend on.SoDr.Goodwin and Dr.Orven told . ·: ·. · • King . I
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