[1Z3] Divines to the Synod ofDort, who owned and helpt to form thole Articles : And he tells us that Bithop Laud had no Bithops on his fide but Bifhop Neale, Bithop Buckeridge, BithopCorbet, and Bifhop Howfon, and after Bithop Mountague, and thought it not fafe to truft his Caufe to a Convocation ; the major part called then The Church of England, I. Cryed down Arminianifn as dangerous Doarine ; 2. Cryed down any neerer approach to the Papifis, and the Tolera tion of them ; 3. And were much for the Law againfl abfolutenefs in the .Icing; and Dr. Heylìns and Rufhworth's Coiled. will tell you the full (tory ofManwaring &Sibthorp, and Arc hbithop Abbots refuting to licenfe Sibthorp's Book, and the Confequents ofall. Thus thole twoParties. grew into,jealoufies, the Old Church-men accu- ling the New on theta three accounts, and the New ones ftriving,as Dr.Heylindefcribeth them, to get into power and overturn the Old. S, In this contentionîhe Parliaments alto in- volved themfelves and the Majority 'till clave to the Majorityof the Bifhops andClergy (then called the Church ofEngland :) And in all or molt Parliaments cried up Religion, Law and Propri - ety and the Liberty of Subjects, and cried down Arminianifm, Monopolies,Connivence and Favou- ring of Papifts, and their increafe thereby ; ex- preffing by Speeches, and Remonftrances, their jealoufies in all thrfe points, till they were dif- folved. G. The writings of Bifhop yewcl, and much more Bifhop Billon, and moft ofall Mr. Richard Hooker, and fuck as were of their mind, thew us what Principles there, and then were by the Laity
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