[ 136 ] Words, of being guilty offalfe Colour- ings, in Affairs that fell within his own Knowledge, and in the conducting of which he hada verygreat Share ; tho' Mr.N. cries out, was there anyThing like what Walfingham afferts ; yet, as Walfzngham lived in thofe Times, and Mr. N. did not, as he fpeaks from his own Knowlege, and was no Enemy to the Puritans, his Teflimony (hall be laid before the Reader, who, when he confiders, how able, and how honeft a Man he was, will pay a due Re- gard to it. " I am glad, (fays this " great Man) to impart that little I " know I find her Majeíly's Pro- " ceeding to be grounded upon two " Principles. " The one, that Confciences are not " to beforced, but to be won and in- duced by Force of Truth, with the `` Aid of Time, and the Ufe of all good Means of Inftrucion and Per- " fuafion. " The other, that Caufes of Confci- " ence, when they exceed their Bounds, " and grow to be matter of action, " lofe their Nature, and that Sovereign " Princes ought diflinctly to punish " their Practices, and Contempt, tho' " colour'd with the Pretence of Con- " fcience and Religion." After having repreç
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