H/1cryofthe Puritans, examin'c. 38, both, of the Church of England eftablifhed by Law, and now brought together to reform it. An excellent Conclave ! But I pray God that be- ' fall not them, which Tully obferves fell upon Epicurus ; That he made every thing worfe that he 4 went abut to mend.' Nay, the remarkable Let- ter in t Bifhop Kennet, direéted to, forne Foreign Reformed Churches, had been a fufficient reproach to any Divines, but fuch as were fingular Enemies to the King and the Church of England. Neal, Ibid. AIrnoft all thofe called Prebyterians, and all that Learned and Pious Synod at Weftmin- fter had been Conformifls, and kept up an honourable Efleemfor thole Bops, that they thought Religious, as Archbi/bop Ufher, &c. What regard they paid to good ArchbifhopUfher, is plain, from their ordering (by general Confent) his Name to be ftruck out of the Lift of the Afhembly of Divines II. And + Id. Ib. II Vita 7acobi Ufferii, per Tb. Smith, S. T. P. p. 37.O talesvero fuerint i(iius Nova:, & haétenus in Anglia inaudita: Synodi, ex Clericis, Laicifque conflarx, Adfeffores, non parum inrerefe puto, ut Potted norint. Plerique Clafflcum ad bellum contra Regem gerendum ejuratá fide, in pulpitis cecinerant i & in Hier. archiam, ab omni Tempore in Ecclefiâ Catholics ítabilitam, impudentiflimis, fpurciffimifque Libellis, apud Vulgur,. (Inagua.. versùm fparfis, & procaciffimis Conciunculis furore fanatico perciti, fuerant debacchati. Prxclari quidem Mÿfiez iftis e,regiis Muniis obeundis maxime idonei! Non negandumeft verfütos ho- mines ad quandam five Gratiam, five AuSoritatem fibi concili- andam, quofdam ex Epifcopis, Presbyterifque, qui nondum ab illorum bonâexifimatione excidif enr, intermifceri voluitie, la quibus, ut alios taceam, D. Ufferiusvenit nominandus. At ille, quod de caeteris venerandis Pra:fulibus dicendum eft, fads gnarus intolerandum Schifma inde enafciturum, multafque prodigiofas in detrimentum, imo & perniciem, veræ Religionis, & Ecclefiæ Mu- tationes ex Necetl'itate fuborituras effe Illos nec præfentiâ fuâ ve! femel dignari voluit, & ab Tito Malignanrium Ccetu prorfus abftinuit. DetraCta enim San&imoniae, qui fcelerata Concilia C c prius
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