Maddox - BX9329 M3 1740

[ 31$ , Mr. N. quotes a Letter from Gualter; but this Letter ofGualter's was wrotebefore that fatisfaaory Plan of King Edward was re-eßablithed. Some were afraid that Popery would have been continu- ed; others feared fomething like the Interimwould have been fet up; others, that Lutheranifm would have been ettablithed: Gualter and the foreign Di- vines feem molt afraid of the Interim: He was again( hearkening to the Counfels of ' thofe Men ' who, when they faw that Popery could not be honetily defended, nor entirely retained, would ' ufe all Artifices to have the outward Face of Re- ` ligion to remain mixt, uncertain, and doubtful ; ` fo that while an Evangelical Reformation is pre- ' tended, thefe Things Mould be obtruded on the Church, which will make the returning back to ' Popery, Supertlition arid Idolatry, very eafy." Be- tides ufing the Word Evangelical, his adding, ' We have had Experience of this for form Years in Germany," plainly mews, he meant the Interim, N's Hitiory, which, according to Mr..11Z's own Defcription, was p. 67. a Form of Worthip contrived in Germany to keep up the exterior Face of Popery. This went beyond Lutheranifm. That Gualter had the Interim in his Thoughts, is confirmedby what Mr. N. faw in Biíhop Burnet, in the very Page from which he took his Quotation. The Bithop obferves, ' This plainly ` infinuated their Fears of fomewhat like what was defigned by the INTERIM in Germany." But what Gualter thus plainly defigned againft the Interim, Mr. N. has produced againfi KingEdward's Refor- mation; and in tranfcribing Gualter's Letters, has fuppreft the following Paffage: ' I write not thefe things to you, as knowing that there are any fuch among you; but I write from a Fear there may ` be fome fuch." What were Gualter's Sentiments of the EuglifhReformation, and of the Puritans, fuf- Life ofParker ficiently appears by his Letter to Bithop'Cox, after he P. 348. had heard both Sides in that Caufe. He declared, that ' fince that Time, which was fixYears ago, they ' ofZurich had had nothing to do- with thofe vain Brawlers, as he tilled them; nor had any Letters ' at all pact between them. That foon after it ap- peared to them, what they went about, when Men

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