(74) municate Kings may be killed or no ; and whether the Pope bath Power to put down and Pet up Emperours and Kings ? Ifyou fay that your One Religion and Onechurch bath no fuch difference, it muff be by Paying that you all agree to Gregory the feventh in Concil. Rom. & Innoc. 3. in Concil. Lateran. on the worfer fide, and all own the Doélors cited by H. Fort, is aforefaid : But indeed I muff fpeakbetter ofyou, even that force are ofa better mind, whom Goldaftus hath gathered and preferved, and divers ofthe Learned Men of France,ñand force in Spain. But we think the difference even between thePrelatifts, Pres- byterians , Independants , yea and the moderate Ana- hptifts, to be far lefs than thefe which your unanimous agreeing Church, doth conftantly bear with, without Silencing, Imprifoning, Ejeting, or Condemning, or fo much as diforming the judgments ofthe worfer fide. He that readeth Parfons on one fide, and watfon's Qodlibets on the other ; Barclay and witherington on one fide, and Zuarez and the far greater prevalent Par- tyon the other, will either wonder at the ftrengthofyour Unity which no doCrinal differences even about the Bloodof Kings can at all difolve ; or elfe he maywon- der at the laxe and fandie temperament of fuch Prote- ffants as cannot bear with a Man that readeth not in their Book, and ífngethnot in their Tune ; and is Rill crying out againfl others as SeCaries, becaufe they have piped to them dnd they have not danced ; and fuch as no Man can live quietly within reach of, unlefs they fwallow everyMorfel which they cut for them; having Throats neither wider, or at leaft no narrower than theirs. As if King Henry the eighth's days were the meafure of true ]Difcipline, when one Man was burnt for being too far from Popery, and another hanged, or beheaded, for be- ing
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