Ui' ( 262, the le to difference between the Nomcrnformifls vvho fought for Concord at the King's Reftoration, or the party of meer Non - Conformifts, and the Proteftants of th2 Church ofEngland, in their Principles about the Power of Princes, and the Stsbjeaion and Pa-. tience of the People. Name any difference ifyou can ? L. roil would make one believe thatgreatNumbers are inhumanely impudent,that charge themwith filchheinous difference,ifthere be none. M. Why doyou not name the difference, if there be any'? Contrarily, i . We all take, the fame Oaths of:fllleg iance and Supre- macy. 2. We Subfcribe all the fame Articles of - Religion about the Power of 'Magiflrates. 3. We haveoftenprofeffed our content to all that is written for Magiltracy and Subjection in all the Scripture,inany General Council ( fave what is for the Papal Tyranny over Princes and People ) or in anyConfeon of any Chrifiian Church, Greek, Pa. pip, or Proteftant, that ever we law ; and for all that ( for the Power ofKings,but not all againft it)which the generality of Fa- thers, Hiftorians, Philofophers, Politick=writers, Lawyers, Ca nonifts, or Divines, are for. And is not all this yet enough ? 4. I have oft told you where; e. g. BilhopAndrews in Tortura Torti, Sir Fran. Bacon, Lord St. Albans, and many others, have vindicated the principles of the .Enllfb Non-conformifts, as the fame with the Church's in point ofLoyalty againft the Papif .s accufations. L. ,;Put donot you know who wrote the Political Aphorifms, or Holy Common, wealth, condemned lately by the Oxford Convo- cation ? M. And do not you know, 1. That the Author had never leave to confute his accufers about it ? 2. ,po you notknow that hepath divers years ago written a large Book called his Second Plea for Peace, fully opening the Principles which he and his Confenters hold ; and no man bath writtenonewordagainft anyofthem,that I hear of,to this day'? Is this fair dealing then tohlence what at large he owneth, and name only a writing 29 years ago, which he never was heard, about? 3. Doyou not knowthat the Famoully Learned Tho. Whitea Papift, wroteat the fame time the like Dotrine, and will you charge that on the Party ofPapifts-? +The
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