Part HL Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter. a o9 § 2.54. Sir Embry ffeley Cowper ( foinetimes- one of Oliver's :Privy-Council) having been a great Favouriteof the King (for great Service for him) and made Earl of Shaftshury, and Lord Chancellour, and great in the fecreteft Councils , at let openly fet agaínil ethers on the account of Religion, earneftly declaming againit Popery, and becoming the Head of the Party that were zealous for the Proteftant Caufe, and awakened the Nation greatly by his Aecivity : And being quickly put out of his mace of Cháncellonrfhip, he by his bold and skillful way of fpeaking, fo moved the Houfe of Lords, that they began to fpeak higher againft the danger of Popery than the Commons, and to pars feveral Votes ac- cordingly. And the Earl of Shaftsbury fpake fo plainly of the Duke of fork, as much offended,and it wasfuppofed would not long beborn.TheEarl of Clare,the Lord Hollis, the LordHallfar, andothers alto fpake very freely : And among the Blihopsonly (thatI heard of) Sir Herbert Crofts (who had foinetimes been a Pa- pifl) the Bdhop of. Hereford. And now among Lords and Commons, and .Citi- zens, and Clergy, the talkwent uncontrolled that the Duke of rockwas certainly a Papift, and that the Army lately raifed, and encamped at Black-heath, was de- ligned to do their Work, who at once would take down Parliaments and f t up Popery. And Sir Bueknall told them in theDoofe of fuch Words that he had overheard of the late Lord TreafitrerClifford, to the Lord Arundell, as teem- ed to increafe their Satisfaftion of theTruth of all ; but common obfervationwas the fulleft fatisfaition. In a word, theoffence and boldnefs of both Houles grew fo high, as eafly'hewed men how the former War began, and filenced many that fail it was railed by Nonconformilts, and Presbyterians. § 255. The third of February was a publick Fall(againft Popery)the firlt(as I remember) that (beficles the AnniverfaryFalls) had ever been finte this Parlia- ment fate (which bath now fate longer than that called the long Parliament did before the major part were call out by Cromwell :) But the Preachers, Dr. Cradotk,andDr. Whitchcot, medled but little with that Minds, and did not pleafe them as Dr. Stillingfleet had done, who greatly animated them, and all the Nation againit Popery by hisopen and diligent endeavours for the Prote- klant Caufe. § 256. During this Seffion the Earl of Orery defired me to draw him up in brief, the Terms and Means, which I thoughtwould fatisfie the Non- conformitts fo far as to unite us all againft Popery ; profeffing that he met with many Great Men that were much for it, and particulary the New Lord Treafurer, Sir Thomas Osborn, andDr. Morley, Bifhop of Winchefter, who vehementlyprofefs'd his defires of it : And Dr. Fullwoád, and divers others hadbeen with meto the like purpofe, teftifyingthe faid Bifhöp's refolution herein. I willst them all to tell him from me, that he had done fo much to the contrary, and never any thing this way fine his Profeffions of that fort, that till his real Endeavoursconvinced Men, it would not be believed that he was ferions. But when I had given the Earl of Orery my Papers, he returned them me with Bifhop Morley's Strillures, or Animadverlions (as byhis Words and the Hand I had reaCon to be confident) by which he fully mademe fee that all his Profeffions for Abanec'ent, andCòhéord, were deceitful Snares, and that he intended no fuch thing at all. And becaufe I have inferted before to much of rich tranfaetions, I will here annex my Propo- fals, with his StrifFures,and my Reply. To the Right Honourable the Earl of Orery. My Lord, IHave here drawn up tholeTerms` on which I think Mïni'ters may be reato- red to the Churches Service, and much union and quietnefs be procured: But I mull tell you, i . That uponfecond ThoughtsI forbore to diltribute them, as I intimated toyou, into feveral Ranks ; but only offer what may tend to a Concord of themolt, thoughnot of everyman: z. That I have done this onlyon the.
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