/rr) 2. But I have elfewhere fully proved that the Parliament when thatWar began,were of the ChurchofEnçland,and Confor- mijrs; and it's orange that any fhould have the face todeny it, while fo many are yet living that know them : Wnitlocke tells us in his Memorials, that they voted,that every County fhould have a Bi!lfop and his Presbytery : And were thofe then againft Epifco- r/téy ? One would think that a County fhould be big enough to keep Epifcopacy from dwindling to nothing ; every Bill-lop of oldhad but one City : Many Counties have ten, or near twee- . ty Towns that were then calledCities. But when Papifcs dare fay that all are againft Kings that are againft the Pope, who is the ruler and depoferofKings ; it's no wonder ifevery Bithop, or Chancellor, or Official, etc. will fay, Ifyou be not for us you are againft the King ; fince all are fworn againft altering the Church- Government before that of the State. Mr. Martin that loft an arm in the Kings fervice in the War, lay inGaol at Warwick, for preachingwhen filenced ; and Mr. Francis B,ampfield that was againft the Parliament's War, lay (even years in Gaol for preaching as a ¿Von-Conformift, and died in New-gate. Non-Conformifts that have been, and are moll for theKing, do fufl'er as much as others. 3. Read my fecond Plea for Peace, in which I declare our po- litical Principles ; and tell us what you there diflike. L. Obj. VII. But why do you refufe to renounce all the Obli- gation of the Covenant, ifyou are not difloyal M. If youreduce your objefion to an argument, it mutt run thus; (All those are .difloyal to the King who think that this vow binds them to be against Prophanenefs., Popery or Schifm, or to endeavour any amendingor alteration of the prelatical way of Church-Government : But, 0.c. I deny the Major. Is he an honourer of the King that dare affirm this ?) We are ready to renounce all Obligation from that or any o- ther Covenant, toany difloyalty what ever. L. Obj. VIII. They fay that your Preaching is unneceffary, there being Minifiers (nogg!) without you, and therefore that you Breech but to keep up a party, andjour own Reputation and ynter e r3- irethem. M. And I think that Prleft fitterfor tears than for difputcs, that fo little knoweth England, or the work of the Office they undertake : If I know the Church that path filch a Pa,ftor, -1 than E f lie.
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