C 3,4 ] Popery and the Purity of the afpel. But - Purely it is a very great Omiffion not to take any Notice of the `l'roteflant Brethren of the .LUTHERAN-'Church, as if they deferved no Regard or Con- fideration, when the Plan of . an Ella- blithment was forming. The Reader will judge how important this Omiffion is, by what Mr. Strype Pays in his Annals Ann. Vol. r. of ueen Elizabeth, " A difficult Work P. S3 " this that was now taking in. hand ; the Reformation of Corrupt Religion, `` being the harder to bring 'to pafs, " becaufe there. was net only in this cc Jun lure a formidable Popich Party " to ftruggle with, but a Lutheran " Party alco, for there was not a few cc now that, in the Alteration of Re- cc ligion would endeavour to have it `` fettled according to the Auguflan ee Confefon." Thofe that were for having this the of ablitli'd Form, gave a Reafon for it that was not without ibid. p. , 74. Weight, the better to join- in League with the German Proteflants, and thereby fupport and ftrengthen that In- tereft here. The Numberof thofewho favour'd the Lutheran Scheme, - was fo confderable, and the Arguments they ufed fomuch regarded, that many were apprehenfive they would carry their Point. " There were Thoughts now " of
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