380 The LIFEof the ..IB.1. pendents, andfome fewPresbyterians, raifed it as a common .Cenfure againit us, that if we hadnot 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 offwould 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 Copiesof 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 whichwere 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 railedout 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 begathered.And to all the reit of theSubje6ts he faithnothing : 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 farehe is as Brange to the Caufe as tome : For he taketh is out of Bilhop Morley's Book, and fuppoling what hehath 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 notone 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 Satyrift, and -one that. was 1°metime motioned to me to bemy a godly Minilter, died in Poi- Curate at Kidderminfier) ; this Man being Houlhold Chaplain to ion, and abundance were im- the Lord'Otrancellour, wasappointed 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 aquarter of an hour, he was ut- terly at a fors, andfo 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, theywere refolved.yet that Mr. S lhould preach the fame Sermon before the Ping; and not lofe his.expe&ed Applaufe: And preach it hedid ( little more than half an hour, with no admiration at all of theHearers) : And for his Encouragement theSermon 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 theprinted Copy all that he had raid fir(t, and one of the next Paflàges which he wasto 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 Churchor State did lye upon it, andall would have been fafe if I were -bot vilifiedand hated. Infotnuch that Dureh the French Minifter that turned to -diem, and wrote for them,had a fenfelef fnatchat me in his-.Book ; and Mr.Stoope the Paltor of theFrench Church was batr'tfheds(or forbidden -this Land) as Fame raid, for carrying over our Debates intoFrance. So cleat any Stranger that had but heard and fen all this, would have asked, What Monller of Villany is this Man ? and
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