Maddox - BX9329 M3 1740

1144 " Mr. Fox came not up in all Partial- cc lars (as he expreffes it) to cleave the " Pin of Conformity, yet he utterly " diftafled thefactious People of that cc Age." What Treatment Mr. Fox and his Son, upon account of his Fa- ther's peaceable and quiet Principles, met with from the Puritans, the Rea- der has feen ; how he was treated by the Church, Mr. Fuller, whomMr.N. p. 76. quotes, informs us. " Father JohnFox " (for fo Qteen Elizabeth term'd him) " fummon'd (as I take it) by Arch- " bithop Parker, to fubfcribe, that the generalReputation ofhis Pietymight " give the greaterCountenance toCon- " fortuity : The old Man produced the " New Teftament in Greek; to this " (faith he) will I fubfcribe. But when " aSubfcription to the Cano4 was re- " quired of him, he refufed it " However,filchRefpettdid theBehops " (mof, formerly, his Fellow-Exiles) " hear to his Age, Parts and Pains, " that he continued his Place to the " Day ofhisDeath." This laft Claufe Mr. N. in tranfcribing, has changed in- to the following Words. " But the Commiili0ners had not COURAGE CG CG CC ENOUGH to deprive a .Divine of fo much Merit, who held up the Allies of Smithfield before their Eyes. Mr. N.

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