The HIS T 0 RY of t:b~ PuRITANs; VoL. It K. Charles I. king's power to take off the fufpenfion whenfoever he pleafed. Upon ~the third, fourth, and fifth, that they were fo reafonable and neceifary,_ that it was not for the king's honour to let them be confidered as a con-– defcenfion to promote the peace; and the remainder, depending upon· the joint confe.nt of king and parliament, after a peace, it would always be in the king's breafi to give or with-hold his aifent, as he thought fir. Parliament's The commiilioners for the parliament replied to thefe conceffions, that reply. they wer<!: fo many new propofitions, wholly different from what they fs;~dale, P· had propofc.J, that they contained little or nothing more, than what they were al1eady in poifeilion of by the laws of the land; that they were no way fatisfaCl:ory to their de fi res, nor conjijting with that rejormation to: which both nations are obliged by the folemn league and covenant; there– fore they can give no other anfwer to them, but infifl: to defire their lordfhips, that the bill may be paifcd , and their other demands concern-– ing reliy,ion granted. The parliament commiffioners, in their !aft papers fay, that all objeCtions in favcur of the prejent hierarchy, arifiog from confcience, law, or reafon, being fully anfwered, they mufl: now prefs for a determinate anfwer to th ei r propofition concerning religion. The king's commiffioners deny, that their objections againfi palling: the bill for abolifhing epifcopacy have been anfwered, or that they had . received an:Y fatisfaC:tion in thofe p~rticulars, and therefore cannot con-– fent to it. . Jh, p. 7 g 7 . ' The parliament commifiioners add, that after fo many days debate, and their mak ing it appear, how great a hil'ldrance epifcopal government is, and has been to a perfect reformation, and to the growth of religion, and how prejudicial it has been to the )late; they hoped their.lordfhips would have been ready to anfwer their expeCtations. The king's commiffioners replied ;., " 'tis evident,. ancl we conceive " confented to on all fides, that epifcopacy hJs continued from the apof– " tles time, by a continued fucceflion, in the church .of Chri!l, without " intermifiion or interruption, and is therefore jure divino." jlJ. p. ,a~. The parliament commiffioners anfwer, " ·fo far ·were we from confent- " ing that epikopacy h8s continued from the apofiles time, by.a continu– " ed fucceffi on, that the contrary was made.evident to your lordtbips, " and the unlawfulnefl of it fully proved.:' Jb p. 790 , ~'he !{.ing,\ commii1loners replied, that they conceived the fucceilion of '8?8. epifcopacy from tbe apoflles was confented to oo · all fides, and did not remember that the unlawfulne fs of: it bad been alferted and proved. However th ~y apprehend· all the inconvenien cies of that government are remedied , by the alterarioilS which they bad offered. Nor bacl the parliament commiiiioners given them .a v·iew in p.<rticular, of the govern– iUCn.t they would fubfl:itute in place of the pretent;. if therefore the alterations·
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