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T20.
APPENDI
.X.
Numb.
V
III,
IV.
Being
vowed
doubly
to Chrift
(
in my Baptifm and Ordination
)
I
had
been
a
perjured
Traytor
againft him,
if
I
had
not hated
this
Sin,
and done
my
part
in my place againft it.
There
is
no Age or Land
fit.
good, where Chriff
and
Satan,
Light and
Darkne(s have
not
this
War
:
and Secular Interefts or Quarrels
are made Satan's Advantages, who pretendeth to great Power in
Difpofing
of
the
Riches and Honours
of
the
World,
This War
ended
not in
England
with Qneen
Mary's Reign.
The
unhappy Differences
of
Frankford came
over with the Exiles
One
Parry running into Extreams againft Epifcopacy
and the Liturgy
,
and the
o-
ther forbidding not
only
them,
but
all
Ordained Minitiers, to
preach or expound
any
Doe-trine
or
Matter
in the
Church or
elf
where
,
without further
Licence.'
I
lived to
fee fo
much
of
the
Effe
its
of thee
Differences
as
grieved my
Soul
:
Excel
-,
lent Preachers, and of Holy
Lives rniftakingly cenfotious againft force Iawful
Things, and
Silencedfor it
;
fonte flying to America, and force
abkonding
here.
I
law the difeafed Paflions and
Divilons
thus caufèd
;
and how much
it
extinguifh-
ed
Chriflian
Love
:
At
all we
all
taw it break
out.into
the Flames
of
an odious
War. And
even the
IIfitrpers, that
by Silencers
pretended their Provocation,
fell
into
the
Crime which
they
Accufed
;
and call out many Learned
Bithops,
Do-
ors
and Preachers, for
refufrng
their Covenant,
and
their Engagement, and their
Way
of
Worlhip, and
for
being
againft
their
War.
Thus Satan's
Silencing
work
went
on.
When Experience
and Smart brought molt Men to their Wits, and they had
found
that
a
divided
Kingdom cannot (land,
and
that returning
co
Love and
Uni-
ty
muff
be
our Recovery
;
I
laboured
with
Minitiers
of
each
fide
with
all
my
power
for
Agreement,
on fuch
Terms
as
we were
then capable
of
a
and
that
was
to joyo in the amicable prabtice
of
all
that
they were
agreed
in, and
to bear
with
one another in the
tell
(
which were no neceffary things)
:
On
thele Terms
War
-
eefterfftire
and feven or eight other Counties quickly agreed:
Ireland
profeftcontent:
More were
doling
:
But
the Divi
/uont
of
the
Ufurpers,
and the
begun Reconciliation
of
the
Peacemakers
(or
Pretenders)prefently reifored
the King.
Men were then varioully affedted, between hope
of
Unity
and fear
of
Difcord,
and
of
the old
Silencing
dividing
Work.
That
we had one lawful
King to Unite
in who
promifed
his
help hereunto, and declared
his
Judgment
for neceffary
In-
dulgence, and that
Lordsand Knights
printed
their profeffed
Renunciation
of
Re-
venge, and Doctors profeffed Moderation, did greatly
raife
Mens hopes that
there
would
be
no mote
fuch Divifions,
as
fhould
Silence faithful
Minilers.
But
they
that
knew how hardly Love and Moderation are reftored, after the Exafperati-
tans
of fo
odious
a
War,
and how
few
conquer
Worldly
Interell
and old
Opini-
ons, and do
as
they would
be
done by,
feared
that
Bill
the
Silencing Work would
be carried on.
I
was
certain that good Men
would
not be united
by coming all
over
to the Opinions
of
each
other:
which
Party
Meyer was
in the right
in
all
the
Points
called
Indifferent
by
tome,
and
Sinful by
others
,
I knew the
Difference
would
continue
:
And
it
doth
fo.
I
knew that thole
that
were molt obedient
co
God,
would
not
do that which they judged he forbad them.
1
knew
that if
for
this they were forbidden ro
Worthip, God
in
Church
-
Worlhip,
they would
not
forbear, till'Suffeiing difabled them.
I
knew
that there
were lb many fuch,
and
the
Suffering
that
difabled
them muff
be
fo
great
,
that the Land thereby muff
needs
be
divided
into the
Af
leti
g
and Af
tIted Parties
:
And
the more confciona-
bie
the
more confiant would
they
be: It
were well if moll
unrlerftood
all things
neceffary:
But
that
41 Ihould
underfland
all
indifferent
things ( that might
be
MI,
sounded
)
to be indìlfferenr, I
knew would never
he,
if
all
the
Land were
DoEfors.
It
was
cage to know
what Exafperations
of
Mind
all this would
caute,
and
what
a
Conqueft Satan would
make here,
.again(}
Light,
Love
and Mer
y,
iliac
is
againft
Chttll,
In
the deep
Senfe
of
this
Danger Ì
fee
my
fell to
try
,
whether Terms
of
Pafi-
ble Concord
might
be_ohtained
:
The
London
Minifters joyned
:
The King
greatly
encüuraged
us; Firitby
his
Declaration
at
Breda,
and
that
againft Debauchery.
Next
by
Perfonal Engaging
us
in
a
Treaty
with the Bithops, and
his
Promife
that
he
would
draw
diem to
meet
us,
if
we would come
as
near
them
as
we could.
Then
by
his
gracious
Declaration, and the
Teltimony
there
given
of
our
Loyalty
and Moderation.
Then
by
his
Commiflion to treat for Alterations of the
Liturgy;
But
the Bithops denied
the
Need
of any'
Alterations, and daf
is all
our Hopes:
And
the
Convocation
and Parliament call
by the
King's Indulgence
;
and .ilfued
all
in
the
A6í
of
Uniformity.