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The
LIFEof
the
..IB.1.
pendents, and
fome few
Presbyterians,
raifed
it
as
a
common .Cenfure againit us,
that
if
we had
not been
fo
fotwardto
meet
the
Bilhops
with the
offers
of
fo
much
at firfl, and to enter
a
Treaty
-with
them without
juft
caule, we had
all
had
better
Terms,
and ftanding
off
would
have
done more
good
:
fò
that,
though my
Perfon
and
Intsntiom
had
a
more favourable Cenfhre
from theta
than
lbme others,
yet
for
the.Abtian,
I
was
commonly cenfured by them,
as
one that
had
granted them too
much, and wronged my Brethren by entring into
this
Treaty,
oar of
too earneft
a
delire
of
Concord
wich
them.
Thus
were Men on both extreatns
offended
with
me;
and
ffound
what
Enmity,
Charity.
and
Peace
are like to meet
with
in
the
World.
But
when
thefe Papers
were printed, the Independents
conferred
that rte
had dealt faithfully, and fatisfa&orily: And indifferent men
faid
that
Realòn
had
overwhelmed the Caufe
of the
Diocefans,
and that
we
had offered
them
fo
much
as
left
them utterly without Excufe
:
And the moderate Epifcapal Men
lid
the
fame
:
But the engaged
Prelatift
werevehemently difpleafed,that
thefe Papers thould
thus come abroad.
(Though
many
of
them here
publifhed
were never
before
print-
ed,
becaufe
none
had Copies
of
them but my felf).
§
264. Bithop
Morley
told me when he Silenced me,
that our
.Papers would
be
anlwered e're long':
But
no Man
to
this day
(
that
ever we
could hear
of)
hath
anlwered them
which
were
uuanfwered; Either
our Reafons for Peace,
or our
Li-
turgy, or our
large Reply,
moan
Anfwers
to
Dr.
Pierfon's
Argument,
cí e.
only
Roger
L'Eftrange
the
writer
of
the
News Book,
bath
railed
out
a
great many words
againit
Come
of
them
:
And
a narnelefs
Authór (thought to
be
Dr.
Wommock)
bath
anfwered
one
part
of
one
Subject
in our Reply, which
is
about excludingall Pray-
ers from
the
Pulpit,
befrdes
Common Prayer
;
and
in very plaufible Language, he
faith
as
much
as
can be
faid
for
fo
bad
a
Caufe,
viz. for the
prohibiting
all
Extem-
porary Prayer in .the
Church..
And when he cometh to the chief
ftrength of our
Reafons,
he pafreth it by, and faith, that in anfwering
fo
much
as
he
did, the An-
fwer to the reft.may
be
gathered.And
to
all
the reit of the
Subje6ts
he
faith
nothing
:
much
lets
to
all
ourother
Papers.
§
265. Ail° another namelefs Author (commonly
falsi
to be
Sir
Henry Telverton)
wrote
a Book for
Bithop
Morley
againit
me:
But
neither
:.
he;
nor
Boreman,
nor
v
Wommock
ever raw me,
for ought
I
know
;
and
I
an
fare
he
is as
Brange
to
the
Caufe
as
to
me
:
For
he
taketh
is
out
of
Bilhop
Morley's
Book, and fuppoling
what
he
hath written
to
be
true,
he
findeth
Mine words
of
Cenforibus
Application, to
make
a Book of.
§
a66. And about the fame time
Sir
Robert Holt
a
Knight
-.
of
WanwickJbire
near
Bremieham,
(pake
in the ParliamentHoule agaiàft
Mr.
Calamy
and me
by
name,
as
preaching or praying feditioully
;
but
not
one
fyllable named
that
we
faid
:
And
another time
he
named nie for my
Holy Commonwealth..
§
267.
And about that time, Bithop
Morley
having preferred
a
young Man, na-
med Mr.
S
(Orator
of
the Univerfity
of
Oxford, a
fluent wit
-
About this time Mr.
Field,
ty
Saty
rift, and
-one
that.
was 1°metime
motioned to
me
to
be
my
a godly Minilter,
died
in
Poi-
Curate
at
Kidderminfier)
;
this
Man being Houlhold Chaplain to
ion,
and
abundance
were
im-
the Lord'Otrancellour,
was
appointed
to
preach before
the
King;
prlfoned upon alicio
U-
fanons of tome of
their
igegno-
where the Crowd
had
high Expectations of
Tome
vehement
Sa-
tant
Hearers.
tyr
:
But
when
lie
had preached
a
quarter of
an
hour,
he was ut-
terly at
a
fors,
and
fo
unable to recolledt himfelf,
that
he
could go
no
further
;
but
cryed
[The Lord
be
merciful'
to our
Infirmities
] and
fo
came down.
But about a
Month
after,
they
were refolved.yet that Mr.
S
lhould
preach the
fame Sermon before
the
Ping;
and
not lofe his.expe&ed Applaufe: And preach it
he
did
( little more than
half an hour,
with
no admiration at
all
of
the
Hearers)
:
And for
his
Encouragement the
Sermon was printed. And when
it
was
printed,
many
defired
to
fee
what
words they were
that
he was
(topped at the
firft
time
:
And they
found in
the
printed Copy
all
that
he had raid
fir(t, and one of
the next
Paflàges which he
was
to
have
delivered,
was
againit me for my
Holy Common-
wealth.
§
268.
And
fo
vehement
was
the Endeavour in
Court, City,
and Country to
make me contemptible andodious,
as
if the
Authours.had thought
that the
Safety
-
either of
Church
or State
did lye upon
it, and
all
would have
been fafe
if I
were
-bot
vilified
and hated. Infotnuch
that
Dureh
the
French Minifter that turned
to
-diem, and wrote for
them,had
a
fenfelef fnatch
at me
in
his-.Book
;
and
Mr.Stoope
the Paltor of
the
French
Church
was
batr'tfheds(or forbidden
-this
Land)
as
Fame
raid, for carrying over our
Debates
into
France.
So
cleat
any Stranger that had
but
heard and
fen
all this, would have asked,
What Monller
of Villany
is
this
Man
?
and