[ 530 J gracing_ their tv1in,ifie!·s of each Party~ and keeping up the hopes of Foretgn and .Domefhck Enemies than calling the Nation into a kind of Iqtefiin~ Hofiilicy, and keeping it fo by the Dividing Laws and Canons? which though. it was ,principal1y the effetts of fecret Popia1 ProjeCts, yet had no Anti– Papifis by..falfe Prejudice, Malice, Revenge and ~orld_ly Interefl, h~d a band in the .effeCting, and imce m defending lt, they had been more inno– cent. And I wouldth~ Provocation had not driven many Nonconformifis into harder thoughts of Bi– ihops and Liturgy d1an they deferve, or than they l1ad .b.efore the e~perience of their ufage~ But ies , hard when for Innocency and Duty men mufi:'lye [and many die] in coinmon.Jai1s,and have all they · have .taken from them, and be left to Beggary or Charicy, to keep up as .great an efiee_mof tbe Au– thors or Abettors of fuch HoHiliry, as if theywere. men of Love and Peace. When they fee men Hang'd for taking away ·<a fmall part by $tealth or Robbery, it mufi be more than ordinary Patience -and-Love, that (hall · caufe men to think and fay -no harm,even by honourable and Right Reverend men, that even by La:w and Judgment faid to be jull, (hall take away all, and much m~re than all. We had not procured hatred by (?ur importunity in 166oand 1661. in l~leadingand Petitioning to prevent' all this, if the certain fo1·efight of it in its Caufes, had not feem·ed very dreadful to us : And ' yet we do not fee the End : The Hoftility conci– nueth, if not increafeth. even while -the Blood and Flames of Germany; Himgary, Tranfllvania, Savoy, Flanders, and lrel.-md and partly Scotland, loudly cry to us, Fire, Fi,·e; and infiead of avoiding the lik~, we ate as bufie as ever to bring moreJewel:t an~ •
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