Chap. v;. The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. 159 but a heap of fuperflition and idolatry; and his affirming falvation may be K. Charles J, had in that church, is contrary to the opinion of o~r beft protell:ant ":ri- ~ ters, who make her damnable errors, the foundation of our fepantnon from her. And though the archhilhop makes light of his not believing the pope to be antichrifl, we do aver, that our ll:atutes and homilies do either in direct or equivalent expreffions define him to be anticbrifl, and particularly in the fublidy afr, 3 Jac. penned by the convocation. But can any thing more fully demon{hate the archbilhop's defign to re- Tobis mon– concile the church of England with Rome, than his own confeffion ? he cilmg the fays, he has laboured this matter with a faithful and fingle heart, reply to ~~~f:J·14 Fijher, p. 388. though not to the prejudice of truth and piety. But it Rome. mull: be obferved, that the archbilhop's defign was not to bring o.ver the church of Rome to liS, but t·o carry us over to them ; a1~d wh<lt <large advances he has made tl<!at way, appears by his fetting up altars, crucifixes, images, and other innovations. What .advance has the chmch of Rome made towards us? why none at all; nor is it poffible lhe lhould, till lhe lays afide. her infallibility. The pretence therefore, of the church of Rome's meeting us half way, was a meer b!iud to deceive the people of Englctnd, till he had can1ied tben1 wholly over into her territories. The archbiiliop has denied his endeavours to fow difcord among 'To hiJ rm– foreign .protell:ant·s, and afferted bis endeavours to reconcile tbe lutherans cbur.cbing and calvinifls, though he has produced no evidence of it; but his late be-fo~:tgn prob . d h r I r h . h . b'IL d IU)ants, avwur towar s t eJcots, on t 1e account or t e1r avwg no Jtuops, an to the foreign fettlements among ourfelves, is a fufficient proof of the contrary. The maxim that he cites from St. Jerom, no bijhop no church, Prynne, p. is a plain perverting of his fenfe, for his words are, ubi non eft Jacerdos, 54r. no1z eft eccltjia; but 'tis well known, that according to St. Jerom, bilhops and preiliyters are one and the fame in jurifdicrion and office, and preiliyters have the power of ordination as well as bi!hops; and therefore this is a conclufion of the archbifhop's framing, which if it be true, muft neceffarily unchurch all the foreign reformed churches, and render all the ordinations of their minill:ers invalid, which is a fuflicient evidence of his enmity to them. As to the French and Dutch churches, who were fettled by charter in the reign of king EdwardVJ•. Mr. Bultee!'s book, of the m~nifold trou– bles of thofe churches by this archbi!hop's profecurions, evidently proves, that be invaded and diminilbed their ancient immunities and priv~leges in all parts; and that he .was fo far from being their friend , that they accounted him their grcatefr enemy. 'To his .counT b c 1 b' .n· 1 · h hl. 'll tenancmgpo0 ~ e JOu.rt 1 o. 1eLtion, re atmg to t e arc. o1u1.o~'s . correfp~n- pijh priejls. dence With popit'h pnell:s, we reply, that the archbrfhop s 111t1macy with l'rynne, Sir .'foby Mathew, the lit>o!l: ai:live jeiiuit in the kingdom, has been fully pro-P· 448, 456, ved. 559> s6r. )
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