( so ) the great hindrance of their Converfion. 2. Stephan his WorldofWonders,taken mofl out of the Bookofthe Queenof Navarre ofthe horrid Villanies ofyour Prieffs. And one thing I cannot difregard : 1 marvel not if the Papiffs be moff bad in Spain, France, Italy, &c. or the Lrc- tierans in Denmark, Saxony, or Swede' ; or the Calvi- nifs in Holland ; or the Prelatiffs and Conformiffs in Eng1 nd ; becaufe thewog (who are commonly the31,o0) will be of the ftronger fide. But that Greeks thould be ungodly in Turky, or Proteflants in Frame, or Pupils in England, where they are f regular, and tnder the difcoun- tenance of the Times, and motf hold their Religion with fome felf-denyal, this feemeth to me a more grievous thing. And ifit prove true, that even inEngland, where you make the. Worldbelieve that you have fufferedgrie- voully, your Followers are too often found meerForma- lijls, living in Swearing, Drinking, Lying, Uncleannefs, or fumeof thefe, what (hall we think of fuch a Religion as this, as in a Landof uprightnefs would teach men to dounjuífly ? I wonder not what fhould make a Drunk- ard, Fornicator, or other debaucht Sinner to be a Papiff in France, Spain, or Italy: But what.fhould make fuch a one be a Papitf in England, unlefs his Religion favour fenfuality, or elfe he think that it will yet prove the up- per fide, I cannot eafily conjefture. But you accufe the. Prelatick Prote/lant för agreeing with the Puritan in expelling Salvation by the extrinfical righteoufnefs of Chrifl without him, not by any interior righteoufnefs in his own Soul.], .An¡iv. I toldyou your me- mory faileth you : Why did youbefore then dèfcribe the Puritan as fo well qualified within, and defring after more ? But were you bredamong Puritans, and yet talk fò ignoranly and. falfly ? This had been more tolerable in a
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