878 Review of the principal fads objected to the " ders rather than to reform them." And if we fhould admit for once, that her majefty did notforce the confciences of herfubjeeh ; did the not oblige them, under the feverett penalties, to come to church, and make an outward profs ion of that way of worf}rip which their confciences disallowed ? Was not this to eflablifh hypocrify by a law, and oblige men to deal falfely with God in matters of the molt folemn importance ? What did the papists require in queen MARY'S reign more than that all people fhould come to mats, and comply outwardly with the laws and injunftions of the church? If they would have done this, the bishops would hardly have fifted their confciences about tranfubliantiation. Sir Francis concludes his letter with a remarkable expreffion, which this writer has artfully concealed, viz. that her majefly was NO MORE A TEM- PORIZER IN RELIGION, nor to be altered by fuccef abroad, nor the change offervants at home. No MORE a temporizer ! does this not im- ply that the had formerly temporized ? if fo, 'tis no wonder the thought her fubjefts might copy her example. Let the reader now pats his own cenfure, upon what 1 have called the faUè colouringsoffir Francis Walfing ham's letter. Our author's next evidence, to juftify the queen's severity towards the puritans, is taken from a letter of father Fox the martyrologift, whole eldeft fon Samuel, fellow of Magdalen college Oxford, having travelled beyond fea, without leave from his father, or the college, " was upon his " return home expelled for a fufpefted papift by the faótious puritans, vie- " lating the laws of gratitude, and defpifing (lays Mr. Fox) my letters, " and the interceffronof the prefident." This the good old man, in a letter to one of the bishops, imputes to their refentments against hirnfelf, becaufe he could not go their lengths in declaiming against archbishops and bishops, and then calls upon theirlordfhips to take care of them, <, as forefeeinggreat difturbances might arife from their intemperate zeal, " who while they require every thing to be formed, according to " the rules of their own ftrift difcipline, will bring all things into jewifh " bondage." This was fuck an angry and pafíionate letter, that Mr. Fuller hopes the reader will not impute it to the good old gentleman's age, nor to his affeftion to his fon, but to the unjust affront which was offered him. The merits of this caufe are not before Mr. N. but what is to be inferred from the letter ? if the expulsion was jufi, it will prove, that the good old man was grown peevish, and carried his refentments too far ; and ifit was unjuf, it will thew, that 'tis dangerous to lodge power in the hands of the clergy of any fort, and that party zeal will, upon force occafrons, carry men beyond the bounds of temper and mo- deration, for which, nevertheless, it would be very unreafonable to pu- nish the whole body. With Burner's Hilt. Ref. Vol. II. p. 421, Mr. Fox's teflimany. Vindic. p. I¢O. Fuller, B. IX. p. 107.
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