Baxter - BX5202 B29 1689

22,t Pope above Council!, and calling the reft by a better Name, and cut- ting offa few fhreds named by Heylin in theLife of Arch-bifhop Lased, and it's done. They know that it is for drawing fo near to Popery that the Non-Conformifts Diflént from them ; and take it for granted that thofemen than are labouring to bring in Popery, are the forwardeft to make this putid accufation of us and that it bath been their labour there two and twenty years to have forc'd us to yield to an univerfal toleriition, and to petiti- on for it, that they might bring in Popery, and then fay it is we that did it, and that for denying this and being unreconcïlea ble to Popery, the Papifts are fo unreconcileable to us, as that nothing will fatisfy them but our utter extirpation; cf which they would make blind, fenfual,debauched,malignant.men that call themfelves Proteftants the inftruments. And howmany of their pillars have written for a foreign Jurifdicion : and defend Grorius, i havetold you before. And to this day that Prieft that is neareft to Popery, is the bittereft enemy to the Non- Confor- milts, and molt preacheth for their deftruetion : And thefe brazen-faced mencannot endure an honeft Conformift that Both but preferr Proteftants that diffent from their fettersbefore the Papifts : And thofe Bifhops and Arch-bifhops and the very ChurchofEngland in their times, that were molt againft Popery, are their fcorn and hatred, as you may fee in Heylin's reproach of Arch" Bifhop Abbot, and theEifhops and Convocation, except fix Bifhops in his days: And by the bafe fcorns that they now pour out against good Arch-Bifhop Grindal, calling fuch men as would ftrengthen us against Popery by reconciliation, by the names of Grindalizers and Trimmers, and fuch as would betray the Church : And how they reproach and ufe Dr. Whitby for his Proteflant Reconciler, and Mr. Bold for his Sermon, and the Au- thor of the four Pleas of the Conformifls for the 1Von- Cantormiffs, and fuch others, you know: The Author of the Reftec`tions, and the Samaritan they have not yet found out. Mr. 'rho. keverley feareth them not : The Bifhop ofHereford, Dr. Crofts,(the first man that ever 1 lawgo forth with a Troop railed by his-Bro- ther for the King, and his Sermon in my Pulpit the firft that e- ver 1 heard againft the Parliament, when the King was in Tork. fhire, and he himfelf had been. a Papiff, and is Rill zealous for their Church caufe) becaiife he wrote the Book called Naked Truth, to heal us and ftrengthen us against .Popery,. they gnafh the

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