i'I alji igham, Secretary Beale, &c. except Hatton and Wh;tgift, were for lenity ; yea for fach abatements as might have cau- fed Unity : And Sir ifi/t1ì,arn Cecil, Lord B.grletgh ( though ;. for Epilcopacy ) almoft fell out with Arch bifhop Wi:t`sift for his hard .uïage of the Nora-.conformifl:s. And were all- thefe fools, and you only the wife men ? , But when Bzin- croft, left they fliould increafe, would ruine them, and the Canons were made, which iFfo falfo Excommunicated ail Peo- ple in the Land, high or low, that did but affirm that any thing in their Liturgy, Articles, Ceremonies, Ordination, or Church-offices ( from the Arc%-,,.JJ p to the ,fi paritor ) was repugnant to the Word of God, the Church and Ki »ïom prelently felt that fi ttioncm continmi which there tearing racks had made : And when all muff be cjeCted and filenced that durft not aïibfcríbe that [ T-ere is norhng in turgy con- trary to the Word of Goa] ( which I would not fay of the Bible it fell as in any one tranflation ) then our over zea- lous tinkers tore all to pieces, and the fhreds could never to this day be well fet together to make one piece. Yea all the Pa> ltarnents of Lngland have fti11 been ftriving~ to reftore the Concord of Proteflants by laying bye force of thefe dividing, tearing Engines: But Whit;ift (though too great an Alt-Arminian) and Hatton, C.c. prevailed dill with the Queen to .prohibit them; and they were loth to dif- pleafe her, having had fo great a deliverance from Popery and Perfecution by her Reign. The Lord Vertdam ( Bacon). tells us ofa ReformingAli in which himfelf had a hand, pre- pared in the Parliament, but prohibited by the Queen. And if any Kings ( who fhould no more divide from their Kingdom Real or Reprefentative, than the Husband from the Wife, that I fay not, Than the Head from the Body ) lhould fo far mifunderftand their own and Peoples ,interc. , as to be jealous of Parliaments as their enemies ; and if wife Kings defre to keep the Nobility from being as Henry 4th. Richard Nevili and others have been) too ftrong for their Sovereigns, they cannot more crofs theirown ends, and . serve the ambitious defigns of thefe men, than by afliifing a great, a fober, and a religious part of the Kingdom, whom thefe feditious men will be ftill ferving themfelves upon, by pretending to had them for their deliverance as many fa- ious ( 174 )
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