.Dory of thePuritans, examind. 221 which the Papifs had fown among us, and from which they hoped to reap a plentiful Flarvefi in our Ruin. Amore eminent Inftance can fcarcely be given, than in this very Gentleman, Dr. Coufins, after, the happy Reftoration of King Charles the lid, advanced to the Bifhoprick of Durham ; who for all his being branded thus by the Name of Pa- , pift, and a Defign to bring in the Mafs and Ido- latry of Rome, yet being by the Violence of the Perfecution which was railed againft the Epifcopal Party forced to quit his native Country, and feek a Retreat among the Papißs in France, he conti- nued a moft unfbaken Protefant, and bold Pro- ' pugnator of the Reform'd Religion, even to the hazard of his Life ; and when the neceffitous Condition to which he was reduced, and all the advantageous Offers imaginable were made him, to embrace theRoman Communion, yet were not thofe Temptations capable of removing him from his Foundation, infomuch as defpairing of ever obliging him to change his Religion, the Pa- ' pi. s were fo enraged at him, (as I have heard it from his own Mouth) frequently to threaten him with Affaffination, and that he fhould not efcape Piftol, or Ponyard. And in revenge, which I have heard him aver was the molt fenfible Af- fli&ion that ever befel him in his whole Life, they inveigled his only Son from him, to become a Papi/t, and to take upon him religious Orders in the Church of Rome; and after he had ufed all the ways, and even the Authority of the French King, which by his Intereft he had procured to interpofe for the regaining him firft out of their Power, and from their Perfuafion, it proved alto- , gether ineffectual ; infomuch, that he was obliged at the laft to difinherit him, as is well known to thofe honourable Perfons, who inherited the Bi- íhop's,
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