281 J Before we come particularly to con- fider this provoking Behaviour, fo of- fenfive to their Superiors, and fo hurtful to fome of themfelves, it may not be improper to take Notice of the Perfons by whom it was in a great Meafure promoted and encouraged: And here we find them under the Influence of two Sorts of Men, the one Papifls, who always find their Account in the divid- ing of Proteftants ; the other, fome avaritious great Men, who defired a farther Confifcation of Church Lands, in hopes to !bare the Plunder. Bifhop Pilkington, who was always, according to Mr. N's Account, a very great N's Hu{. Friend and Favourer of the Non-con-P. 351. formifts, complains, " That the Dif- Ibid. p.19.á, " putes which began about the Vefi- " ments were now carried farther, " even to the whole Conflitution ; that " pious Perfons lamented this, Atheifis " laugh'd, and the PAPISTS blew the " Coals ; and that the Blame of all " was call upon the Whops." There was too much Ground for this Com- plaint againft thePapifts. "Pope PiusV. Str}pe's Ann, " in the firft Year of his Pontiff, fet Vol 1. " forth a Bull to anathematize and"°' " confound the Hereticks, and fow " Difcord among them ; wherein, " among other things, he willed and N 3 `` autho -.
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