CI:A P, L X. Inc Reafons of thefe ten .Articles. L. _`(JO V rnuffgive me leave to tellyou what cbjeElicns are 1ikf to. .1 be railed again" your propofed Articles of Reconciliation. And firf1your own party will be unfati s find in them, and fo they will :do nogood,,1ecaufe here is not a word againfl Arch.brfbops, Bifhops, means, Archdeacons, and the refi that bear office in their Courts, whichyet is the thing thatyouyour f elffeemmolt to.diffèrltfrom, and zchich -the Covenant did renounce. M. z. We have fo much fwearing and unfweariñg,and fór. fwearing, that I will,meddle as littleas I can in things that look like Perjury. You know that as the laft Generation was fworn a gainit Prelacy, thisnewGeneration is fworn to it : Yea in a man- ner the whole Land is fworn or .covenanted never to endeavour any alteration of it : And how niuch foever ram. againft. that Oath, yet I will meddle as, little as I can in urging men to that which they take for Perjury. And I have elfewhere told you that the Covenant renounced not all Epifcopacy; many of the Alterably of Divines declared their diflènt from any fuch renunciation, and hadentred their proteftation againft it(as Dr. Cornel. Burges toldme)had notthe Explication been added,which conlineth theRenunciation to the Englifb frame. And that the prefent ,Non-Conformif%s would have thankfully received thePrimitive Epfcopacy, they fhewed by their motion, 166o. 2. We offer this formon fuppofition that we may . not have what we think belt, but what we can joyfully fubmit to,for our Concord and the Churches fafety. 3. 1 have inferted thofereftraints ofthehurt and abufe ofthe Diocefanform, and their Courts, as may domuch to fecure Reli- gion : And if they be kept fromdoing harm, we have molt of our end. Their faults are not ours who cannot remedy them. 4._. And you are miftaken in thinking that this formofAecon:. ciliation will caufe no Concord : Lefs was accepted with pul5- li(hed thanks to the King for his Declaration, 166o. And I be- lieve that theDiJfenters would befo few, as that theConcord of Confenters would render them inconfiderable, or uncapable of boi ng dangerous;to ourpeace. 1::;; But,
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