Maddox - BX9329 M3 1740

[ 145 Mr. N. will not be envy'dany Pleafure he can receive from thus altering a ,Quotation, in order to explain an In- fiance of Frienddhip and Regardto Me- rit, into the mean Paffions of Fear and Cowardice, meerly becaufe the Favour fhew'd to Mr. Fox proceeded from an . 4rchbehop and Bifops. But there is another Remark relating to this good old Man. Mr. N. to give the greater credit to his Lift of Puritans, places Fa- ther Fox at the Head of it ; whereas, in truth, he was perfecuted by the Pu- ritans, and to his Deathpreferr'd in the Church. This Treatment of Mr. Fox by the Puritans Mr. N. omits, tho' it feems a veryproper Part of their Hiflo- ry, and lay before him in the Book he quotes for the other Story. This by the bye. We have feen Mr.Fox's SenN's xivory timents of the Puritans; let us now feep 2"). what he Pays of Queen Elizabeth, in a voluntaryLetter that good Man wrote to her. Mr. Strype gives it in the fol- lowing Words. " To let pats, moft Strype's Ann; " noble Queen, thofe commonlyknown '°ir' I' p' `}4s' things, viz. That prefently, at the " Beginning of your moft fortunate L " Reign, Ut vulgaria illa prxteream, qúdd in ipu s flatim felicilü- mi regni tui aufpiciis tot periclitantes cives, & liomines extorres ab exilio revocaveris; quòd Patriam ipfis, nee fo- lum ipfis, fed Patriam quodammodo Patrix rcddideris, Angliamque jamjam pxnè expirantern luci ac vita fux re- ftitueris

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