1he HIS T 0 R Y of the PURI'r ANs. VoL. II,. 'CbKing contemptuous language. Some few of them pretended to bemoan the arles II. f · r h r. 1 d 1661 . want o ep11copacy among t em.e ves, an to wonder that any of the ~ mglijh preibyterians thould fcruple con formity. The french church at K. Chr. P· the Savoy, fubmitted to the rites and ceremonies of the englifh hierarK 462· chy ; and Mr. Du Bofc miniflet· of Cam, writes to the minilter of the ennet, p. S I I d h. d h fi · 475 ; avoy, t 1at 1e was as ear to Im un er t e. urpltce of England, as under King's pre– tended zwl for the hie– rllrchy. Rapin. p. 290· the robe of ~France. So complaifant were thefe mercenary divines, towards thofe who difallowed their orders, difowned their churches, and the validi ty of all their adminiltrations. Lord Clarendon and the bifhops having got over the Savoy conference, and carried the fervice-book with the amendments through the convoca– tion, were now improving the prefent temper of the parliament to pro– cure it the fanCtion of the legiflature ; for this purpofe the king, though a papifl, is made to fpeak the language of a zealous churchman. In his fpeech to the parliament, Feb. 2 8, he has thefe words; " gentlemen, " I hear you are zealous for the church, and very follicitous, and even " jealous, that there is uot expedition enough ufed in that affair. I thank " you for it, fince I prefume it proceeds from a good root of piety and " devotion ; but I mull: tdl you, that I have the worf\: luck in the " world, if after all the reproaches of being a papijl, while I was abroad, " I am fufpeCted of being a prejbyterian now I am come home. I " know you will not take it unkindly if I tell you, I am as zealous for " the church of England as any of you can be, and am enough ac– " quainted with the enemies of it on all fides. I am as much in love " with the book of common-prayer as you can wilh, and have pre– " judices enough againf\: thofe who do not love it; who I hope, in time, " will be better informed, and change their minds. And you may, be " confident, I do as much defire to fee an uniformity fettled as any among " you ; and pray truf\: me in that affdir, I promife you to bail:en the " difpatch of it with all convenient fpeed; you may rely upon me in it_ " I have tranfmitted the book of common-prayer with the amendments, " to the houfe of lords--- but when when we have done all we can, " the well fettling that affair will require great prudenc~ and difcretion, '' and the abfence of all paffion and precipitation." Infavo~r of The reafon of the king's requi~·ing difcretion in the par~iament, and the papifts, the abfence of paffion, was not 1n favour of the ~reibytenans, ~ut the ;;,;fr~:f::e pnpifis, who went all the lengths of ~he prerogative, and p~bh!h~d a tiples. remonfirance about this time, " wherem they acknowledge hts maJefl:y " to be God's vice-gerent upon earth in all temporal affairs; " that they are bound to obey him under pain of fin, and that •• they renounce all foreign power and authority, as incapable of ab-
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