PA R T II. Reverend Mr. RichardBaxter. § 240. And in the Conclufion of this Bulinefs, feeing we could prei'.ailr' `with theft Prelates and Prelatical Men, (after fo many Calamities by Divifions,and when they pretendedDefires of Unity), to make no confiderable Alterations at all the Reafon of it feel-clingunfearchable to fome, wasby others confidently conjeEtured tobethefe: r. They extreamly prejudic'd the Perfons that fought this Peace, and therefore were glad of means to cafì themout and ruin them, a. The Effe&s of the Parliament's Conqueft had exafperated them to the height. ;. They would not have any Reformation or Change toäccafon Men to think that ever they were in an Errour, or that their Adverlàrics had reafonably defired, or had procured a Reformation. g. Some confidently thought that a ferret Refolution to unite with the Papifts (at leaft as high as the old Defgnwhich Heylin owneth in Lauds Life) was the greateft cauleof all: And that they would never have loft fo great a Party, as they did but to gain a greater (at home and abroad together.) § 24e. And here, becaufe they would abate us nothing at all confiderable, but made things far harder and heavier than before , I will annex the Conceflions of Archbilhop Ufoer, Archbifhop Williams, Bifhop Morton, Bifhop Holdfwartb, and many others in a Committee at Weflminfter (before mentioned) a641. 369 ACopy of the Proceedings of flute Worthy and Learned Divine' touching Innovations in the Doifrine and Difcipline of the Church of England : Together with Confederations upon the Common Prayer Book. Innovations in Do5lrine. a Qurere: (.(]Hether , in the Twentieth Article thefe Words aré not inferted, V V Haber Ecelefsa authorìtatem in Controverfisfdei. z. It appears by Sretfords; and the approbation of the Licenfers, that force do teach and preach, That Good Works are cancaufes with faith in the eta of Juflification Dr. Dove alto bath given Scandal in that point. ;. Some have preached the Worksof Penance are facisfa&ory before God. 4. Some have preached that private Confellìon by particular Enumerationof Sins, is neceffary to Salvation, neeeffitate medii; both thofe Errours have been que- Ginned at the Confiftory at Cambridge. S. Some have maintained that the Abfolution which the Prielt pronounceth, is more than Declaratory. 6. Some have publiíhed, That there is a proper Sacrifice in the Lord's Supper, to exhibit Chrift's Death in the PaJtfall, as there was a Sacrifice to prefigure to the Old Law in the ttntefall,and therefore that we have a true Altar, and thereforenot onlymetaphorically fo called, fo Dr. Heylin and others in theTaft Summers Convo- cation, wherealto force defended, that theOblation of the Elements might hold the Nature of the true Sacrifice,others the Confumprion of the Elements. 7. Some have introduced Prayer for the Dead, as Mr. Brown in his printed Ser. Mon, and force have coloured theufe ofit with Quellions in Cambridge, and difpu- ted, that Precespro Defunc`irx sianfupponunt Purgatorium. 8. Divers have oppugned the certitudeof Salvation. 9. Some have maintained the lawfulnefs of Monaftical Vows. ro.Some havemaintained that the Lord'sDay is kept meetly by Eccletiaftical Con- Gitution, and that the Day is changeable. r e. Some have taught as new and dangerous Do/trine, that the Subje&s are to pay any Sums of Money impofed upon them, though withoutLaw , nay contrary to the Laws of the Realm, as Dr. Sybthorp, and Dr. Manwari gBishop of St. Da- vide, in their printed Sermons, whom many have followed oflate years. B b b na. Some
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