r 224 " the Bi/hap, upon their Misbehaviour Was Mr. N. convinced their Scheme would not bear the Light that he has given fo imperfect an Account of it, and would not venture to give his Reader the Words of the Author, he refers to in his Margin ? To fupply this Defeá, and lay the Matter fairly before the World, it may be proper to take fome Notice of a Speech in the Houfe of Commons, when the Puritan Bill and Book were brought into that Houfe ; by this it will appear, that Lay-Gentlemen faw much more in their Scheme, thanMr. N's imperfect Abridge ment was intended to bring to the Reader's Mind : In short, that a total S'ubverfion of the C,onflitution, and not the reforming fore fewAbufes, was their grandVefign. This Gentleman (peaks from an Authority which Mr. N. with all the Courage he fo frequently talks of, did not dare to produce, even their Bill and Book it (elf. There is one Thing fhould be, obferved particu- larly. This Hiftorian ventures to af- firm, that Minifters, by this Bill, were rrs Hifl°ry to be depofed with the Confent of the $' 4$°' Bifhop,upontheir Misbehaviours where- as the Author he refers to, exprelly fays, that the Bill was very injurious to the chief of the Clergy, " and cal- " culated
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