• \ I . ( )2 J XII. Though King Edw. VI. ' was hut aYouth when he wrote his fharp Book againfl: Popery, (lately printed.) · le fheweth what his Tutors and the Clergy qf his time, who. were called the . Church, then thought of chefe Matters. ·: XIII. If the Parliaments of England all the d"y.s of Q!!een E,liz.flbeth, King 1ame1, -and King Charles I. and II. knew what was the Doctrine of .;. · th~ Church of England abot:It a Forreign Jurif– dittion, it is eafie to gather it in their Voces, and AGl:s. L~th~m that would know whether they were for a Coalition with the French on fuch ferms,, read Sir Simo?t Dewes Journals, Rujhworths CQlletl:ions, or PriJ?sJ~t.roduCl:ion ad annum 162 I. pr any other cru.c; HHloriao, and he will fee. how far they were from. owning any Forreign Ecclefi– afi:ical Jurifdietion. But the contrary minded would make the World believe that all thefe Par– liaments were of fome Secl: differing from the ' Church of England. . But what call they the Church of England but that part ofthe Clergy who conform to the Laws: And did not the Law– makers underfl:an'd the Laws ? . Or if they more regard the fence of the Clergy, let them read A. Bi!hop Abbot's very ?lain and bold Letter to the King, in Prin's Introdutl:. pag. 39, 40· and Dr. Hacfz..well's, &c. and they may know what was then the fence of the Clergy: With whom concurred the Bilhops of Ireland : Infornuch that Biil1op Downame expreffing his fenfe of the Papifl:s there, and his contrary de– _fires, prefum~.d eo add, [And let all the people fay · An,1en ; ] ~ at. w.hich, the -Church rang ·with the Amen. Aad though he .was quefl:ioned in E? 1 t– fand for it, he, cam~~faiF .off. His.Neighbour Bi- .. . · · {hops ' • I
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