222 ) theTeeth at him ; and fo they doat Dr.Barlo r Bithopof Lincoln that wrote ofthe treafonable principlesof Papifts,tho' bete lhops are 'too bigfor them yet tovilify, and openly oppofe. L. To may be more againft Popery than they and yet bring it in imprudently by dividing us. M Who do you think in your Confcience is liker to bring it in, we or they ? Who bath done and fuffer'd more to keep it oat ? We laydoji all that we have to that end : They will not part with aCeremony, or one Oath, or a Re-ordination, or an Excommunication ofCh,riftsMembers to keep itout ; but plainly tell us, that they had rather Popery came in than abate a jots of their Self-made Religion oi Impofitions, or than fuch as I thould Preach theGofpel. But I confefs I am not todeny it, that the Non-Confor- milts may be the occation of bringing in. Popery, by way ofAn- riperiiafis; fome menhate usand all ferious Godlinefs fo much, that they are like enough to be for Popery, becaufe godlymen are againff it : And I fear left they that fee the Non-Confor- mitts would reform their Prelacy and Church- Courts, and re- duce them to the Primitive Epifcopacy, defcribed by Bithop Viher, will be fomuch afraid, left they lofe fomeoftheir Wealth and Domination by it, that fome of them will hearken to the Papifts, that will promífe them an Encreafe of that which they fo efteem. And indeed it is already no ftrange thh g tohear them fay, They had rather the Papifts: came in with Popery, than the Difl'enters with their Reformation. I think ere long you are like to be convinced more eWe tually than by Writing, which Party is liker to bring in Popery;, and to turnPapifts. In the mean time I begin to praife S,f.phen Gar- dhncr, and fuch others, for their Modefty, that when they burnt Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper, Philpot, Rogers, and the rely,;:that they did not charge them withbringing in Popery, and fay we burn you for that. L. XV. They faythat you ftretch the Words of the Oaths, Decla- .rztions, Subfcript.ions, Liturgy andCanons, to an illfence, toy a rigo- rous interpret-at:on, which was never the Meaning of the 2hie `hors ; and on thatyouground.your Diffnt, M. i. I hope.you will grant,.,that when the thingsthat men fear ( whether juffly or miftakingly) no lei`s tl:an, deliberate Lying, Perjury, amd Coi raç ing by J.0 ification the Guilt of many
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