Maddox - BX9329 M3 1740

r140] " thods correfpondent unto them Hill " retaining the two Rules before men- " tion'd, and dealing. tenderly with Confciences, and yet in difcovering " Faction from Confcience, andSoftnefs " from Singularity. Thus far this great and honeft Statef- man. The next Evidence is a Divine, of great Diflint}ion, the Reverend Mr. John Fox, the Martyrologift, of whom Mr. N. gives the followingCha- N's Hirt. ratter. " He was a moft learned, pi- P. 494 " ous, and judicious Divine, of a ca- " tholick Spirit, and againfl all Me- " thods of Severity in Religion ; but he was fhamefully negletted, for force " Years, becaufe he was a Non-eonfor- " mill, and refuted to fubfcribe the Canons and Ceremonies." His Tefti- mony, therefore; is beyond Exception. Let us fzr/l hear the good old Man, as to the 'Puritans, and then as to the ,Q,neen. THEY expell'd his Son from Magdalen College, without anyAdmo- nition or Crime alledged againft him upon which, he writes, as follows, to a Reverend Bifhop. FullerLib.BX. " It has always, I confefs, been my P. 107. " great Care, if I could not be fervice- " able Illud confiteor, Temper cávifï'e me fedulo, ut fi minus prodeffe muftis licuerit, ne fcíens tamen obefïem cuiquam, tum minime 'verb omnium Magdalenfibus, quo magic id mibi

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