[ 291 J Reign." ['Tis probable he means that made 3 5 Eliz. Cap. I. for the prevent- ing and avoiding of fuch great lnconve- niencies and Perils as might happen and grow by the wicked and dangerous Prances of feditious SeCiaries, and dif loyal Perfons] " which debar'd them " from Liberty of Confcience, tho' " they were Proteftants. I (hall not cc (fays he) take upon me to determine, cc whether theyhadReafon to complain cc of this Rigour. The Reader will obferve, that in all the foregoing Account of the Temper, _`Defgns andBehaviour of thePuritans, nothing is quoted from Dr. Heylin or Mr. collier, whofe Principles Mr. N. objects to, as being too zealous for the Hierarchy ; tho' it is utterly impolfible for any Man to be more intemperately zealous for it, thanmoil of his Witnelfes are againfi it The State of the Evi- dence, therefore, between us ftands thus : On the Side of the Puritans, this Gentleman has produced their own Petitions, Letters, Reprefentations, chiefly from a Manufcript, of whofe Author or Credit the World is alto- gether ignorant For the Queen, the Minifry and .Bifhops, Quotations have been made in the very Words of the Authors ; fromMr. Fuller, Bilhop Bur- 12 act,
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