6ro 1he HISTORY of the PuRITANs. VoL. IJ.. King Sancrq(t a non-juror. He was a divine of moderate principles to the Cha(,l~s II. ]aft, and always difpofed to promote a toleration, and if poffible a cam– ~ prehenfion of the diifenters within the church. Upon the whole, he was · a fecond Cranmer, and one of the mofl: valuable prelates that this, or it may be, any other church ever produced. Cmfom of V?rious cenfures were. paifed within doors upon the Sa~'OY conference; tbe conferthe mdependents were d1Igufted , becaufe none of them were confulted, :>ue. th9ugh it does not appear to me what concern they could have in it, their views being only to a toleration, not a comprehenfion. Some blamed their brethren for yielding too much, and others thought they might have yielded more; but when they faw the fruitlefs end of the treaty, and the papers which were publi£hed, moft of them were fatisfied. - Bil110p Burnet. fays, the conference did rather hurt than good, it heightened the f'harpnefs which was already on people's minds to fuch a degree, that it n. T8 r. needed no addition to raife it higher- Mr. Robinfon fays, "It was noLlnfwer to " torious that the bufinefs of the epifcopal party was not to confult the ~~~j~~~ ofli-" intereft of religion, but to cover a political deGgn, which was too bad p. 382. " to appear at firfl: ; nor did they mean to heal the church's wounds, fo '' much as to revenge their own. When they knew what the pre!byteri– " ans fcrupled, they faid, now they knew their minds they would have '' matters fo fixed, that not one of that fort ll1ould be able to keep his " living. They did not deGre, but rather fear their compliance." Nay, fo unacceptable was the publil11ing the papers relating to the conference, that bi£hop Saunderfon and fame of his brethren cautioned their clergy againft reading them. From this time the pre!byterians were out of the que!lion, and the fettlement of the church referred entirely to the convo– cation and parliament. A (onvocatiIt had been debated in council, whether there £hould be a convocatioa w. fummoned while the conferepce at the Savoy was depending; but at the in– terceflion of Dr. Hey/in and others, the court was prevailed with to con– fent that there fhould ; and fuch care was taken in tbe choice of members (as bill10p Burnet obferves), that every thing went among them as was di– reCted by bi£hop She/don and J.1orley. If a convocation had been held with the convention parliament, the majority would have been againft the hie– rarchy; but 'tis not to be wondered they were otherwife now, when fame hundreds of the pre!byterian clergy, who were in poifeffion of fequdl:er– ed livings, bad been difpoifeifed ; and the neceffity of ordination by a bi1hop, being urged upon tbofe who had been ordained by pre!byters only, great numbers were denied their votes in elections. Neverthelefs the pref– byterian intereft carried it in London for Mr. Baxter and Calamy by three voices: but the bi£hop of London having a power of choofing two out of four, or four out of fix within a certain circuit,_ left them both out ; by . which
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