Love Popery will grow says he out of our divisions thousands have been drawn to and confirmed in it by this means I am persuaded says he that all the arguments in Bellarmine and other Books have not done so much to make Papists in England as our Divisions and multiplied Sects And afterward who sees not how fair a game the Papists have to play by our divisions Archbishop Whitgist in his Letter to the Lord Treasurer and Dr. Oats in his Narrative and others speak it as upon their own personal knowledge that the Dissenters have been animated to Non-conformity by the Jesuits It hath been lately made out by a Peer of this Realm that their making a Court-party and a Country-party and fomenting fears and jealousies between both was an expedient agreed upon in France and sent over into England for the promoting of Popish Interests And in Queen Elizabeths time as soon as ever the Puritan had made the Schism over came Sanders and Harding into England and practised in that sort as proselyted many to the Church of Rome 4. They promote Popery by vilifying the Church and Church-men of England when in Queen Elizabeths time they traduced Archbishop Whitgift that great and pious Prelate calling him Beelzebub of Canterbury Pope of Lambeth bloudy opposer of Gods Saints Esau Antichristian Beast c. and the rest of the Bishops as Petty-Popes the Ordinance of the Devil paultry Prelates pestilent Usurpers in the Convocation they called them Clergy-masters of the Confocation-house Monsters of the Conspiration-house the Convocation house of Devils and Beelzebub of Canterbury the chief and when they called the inferiour Clergy Dolts and Drunkards Hogs and Dogs Wolves and Foxes Simoniacks and Usurpers c. See what advantage the Papists made of this Parsons in his Book of Three Conversions reports these Slanders and Calumnies for undoubted Truths Martin Mar-Prelate is said by Sir Edwin Sandys to pass in those days for unquestioned Credit in the Court of Rome and his authority much insisted on to disgrace the Protestant Religion Kellison a later one doth build as much on the credit of these Libellers to defame the Reformed Religion as if they had been inspired by some infallible Spirit And Mason tells it as a serious thing Appellant Episcopum Cantuariensem Pseudo-episcopum Principem Daemoniorum Caiapham Esaum Monstrosum c. Alios autem Episcopos Angliae degeneres perniciosos Usurpatores Lupos Episcopos Diaboli c. Now upon these considerations judge who will what reason these men have to charge the Church or Church-men of England as fautoring of Popery to amuse the People with fears and jealousies concerning it and to arrogate to themselves the reputation of the most zealous opposers of it and yet by exerting their zeal these three ways they have strengthened their Faction and promoted their interest in Church and State 4. Their Veneration to the Scriptures pretended above others Another way by which they increase their Party and Interest is the great veneration which they above others pretend to have for the Holy Scriptures their confident appeals to Scripture as Judge of their Controversie and constant retreat to it for defence of their Cause teaching their Followers even in matters of indifferency which the Scriptures are silent in and leave to humane prudence to swagger with the demand Where do you find in Scripture such precept or example And this to the more unwary and less knowing Professors is one thousand Arguments and as apt to take with them as any thing Now there are three things among others which do much liable this pretence to hypocrisie and delusion 1. Their gross perverting and misinterpreting of Scripture beyond what the Papists themselves do 2. The impracticableness and errour of demanding a Scripture-Text for the very externals of Gods worship 3. Their disregard and slâ—ght of those Scriptures though speaking never so plainly which contradict their errours and practices 1. Their perverting and misinterpreting of Scripture when Fathers and Councils Reason Antiquity and Scripture fail them then a good Gloss must serve for a Text vexing and urging the Holy Writ which the Apostle calls emphatically 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. cogging the Die to make it speak what they list and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. crafty deceitful applying and expounding it Thus by Babylon they understand Episcopacy by beggarly Elements they mean Church-Ceremonies they justifie their out-rages against the late King and Nobility with a Bind your Kings with chains and your Nobles with fetters of iron they have commented Rebellion out of the very thirteenth of the Romans which enjoins Subjection and Loyalty upon pain of damnation and have fetcht Presbytery out of the first of Titus ver 5. which plainly exhibits the very essentials of Episcopacy The Murder of the late King they have out of Daniel's Dream and from the Beast and the little Horn in the Revelations and because the Apostle says Moses was faithful in all the house of God therefore there must be nothing in the externals of God's Worship but what you have a Text for for the like reason that that ignorant Popish Priest urged out of the Psalms Paveant illi non paveam ego to prove his Parishioners ought to pave the Chancel Look in the Geneva Bibles their Note on Rev. 9. 3. you will find that by the Locusts which came out of the Smoak they say is meant false Teachers worldly subtle Prelates Monks Friers Cardinals Patriarchs Archbishops Bishops Doctors Batchelors Masters to which is subjoined which forsake Christ to maintain false Doctrine where they bring all Archbishops Bishops and all that take University Degrees under the name of Locusts and rank them with Monks and Friars whom they beheld as no other than the limbs of Antichrist One would think that that Curse at the end of the Revelations should make them afraid so to wrack Scripture-Texts those God-breathed Oracles to make them obstetricate to their Impieties and confess such abominable falsities But thus it was ab origine The Donatists justified their separation with that 1 Cant. 7. Tell us where thou makest thy Flocks to rest at Noon Meridiem versus the French Translation is towards the South therefore they being Southern confine the Church of God to themselves and separate from the Orthodox Christian Churches And we know who it was that first practised this Art by the manner of his urging our Saviour with a Scriptum est in all his temptations Matth. 4. 2. A second thing that liables their pretended veneration for the Scriptures above other men to the suspicion of seducing is their frequent use of demanding Scripture-Texts for every thing in the Discipline and Orders of the Church denying Church-rulers the power of appointing Ceremonies Before I come to speak of the delusion of this pretence I would premise something concerning its errour which did not the constant practice of the Seduced require it were a shame
thing comparable to what the Episcopal Divines have against Popery 'T is true Mr. Baxter Pool and two or three more of them have done their parts but what to those many of the Church of England Usher Hall Morton Reignolds Chillingworth Laud Abbot Jewel Bramhall Barlow all Bishops beside Hammond White Buckeridge Sutcliff Stillingfleet Tillotson and many others of our Churches education of as great Learning and Judgment in Religion as holy Lives and as comfortable Consciences as any the World affords which one would think enough to make Malice it self ashamed to charge the Church or Church-men of England with any thing like Popery or Popishly affected Add to this III. If the Church or Church-men be any thing Popishly affected how comes it to pass that the twisted strength and subtlety of Papists with all their hellish malice is engaged chiefly against them as their mortal enemies as though nothing stood in their way but the Church of England that hath the countenance of Laws and Reason Antiquity and Decency to support it never regarding Quakers or Non-conformists as though it were below the wit of a Jesuit to encounter a Non-conformist as one that 's doing the Popes business yet will not be made believe it Now these three things considered judge who will what reason dissenting Protestants have to brand with the name of Popish or Popishly affected the Church or Church-men of England And if so whether it be not probable that by their factious and extravagant zeal against Popery they design not onely the overthrow of Popery but the increase of their Party and the promotion of their Interest also But once more IV. If there be any Church of England men Popishly affected I heartily wish in the Apostles words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they were utterly cut off from among us and here will every true Church of England man say heartily Amen A Second way that they have of exerting their zeal against Popery whereby they increase their Party and promote their Interest is to amuse the People with the Fears and Jealousies of a Popish Revolution I confess this being purely politicae considerationis is beyond my Province but with humble deference to Superiours suppose we the worst even that of a Popish Successor yet have we many good allays to the extravagance of that Jealousie viz. all Offices and Power being in the hands of Anti-Papists there being so many strict Laws in force against Popery and the King's offer and readiness to concur in making more or any other thing that is lawful just and honest to secure us against it To instance in the revolution of Queen Maries reign is vain for there being now in the two Kingdoms so universal a detestation and loathing of Popery which was not then what Prince in the World would offer to set up that Religion so much against his own interest so utter inconsistent with his quiet and safety and which will so certainly involve him into continual fears and troubles most desperate dangers and inconveniences as that which next to Hell is most formidable and abominable to almost all his Subjects and that which they will scarce ever be brought to submit to Upon these and many the like considerations wise men think it not adviseable to forward a Popish revolution by exasperating the Heir to the Crown with the factious and unnecessary fears of a Popish succession and to abandon our quiet and security for meer future possibilities to make our selves certainly miserable before-hand for fear of being miserable hereafter Like Gundamore the Spanish Ambassadour who procured a valiant English Knight to be put to death as he said not for any hurt he had done but for fear of doing hurt 3. A third way they have of exerting their zeal against Popery whereby they increase their Interest and Party is by appropriating to themselves the reputation of the zealous Protestants and greatest opposers of Popery which will appear as impudent a cheat as it is a falshood if by zeal and opposing we mean not factious but onely such as is of regular and religious tendency to the overthrow of it when 't is considered 1. How abundantly the Episcopal Divines have out-done them in opposing and keeping out Popery as hath been noted before to which I add that of Dr. Saunderson That all along frâ—m the beginning of the Reformation our Biâ—â—ops with others of the Prelatick Party were the Principal if not the only Champions to maintain the cause of Religion against Popery and in these latter times none have slept in the Gap more readily nor championed the cause of Religion agaâ—nst Popery with more dexterity zeal and gallantry than the Episcopal Divines by whose endeavours some that have been bred Papists have been gained to our Church others that began to waver were confirmed and setled in the Protestant Religion but I profess says he as in the presence of Almighty God and before the World that I have not known or at least caâ—not call to remembrance so much as one single example of any of this done by any of our Anti-ceremonian Brethren whether Presbyterian or Independent But 2. These Non-conformists are so far from being the truly zealous opposers of Popery that as the same Dr. Saunderson observes they are really and eventually though not intentionally the great Promoters of the Roman Interest among us and that several ways 1. By putting to their helping hand to the pulling down of Episcopacy the main Bulwark against Popery as having the support of Laws Reason Scripture and Antiquity against it 'T is well known says he what rejoicing that Vote against Episcopacy brought to the Romish Party how in Rome they sang their Io Paeans upon the tidings thereof saying triumphantly now the day is ours now the fatal blow is given to the protestant Religion in England they could not but foresee that if the old Government of England a main pillar in the Building were once dissolved the whole Fabrick would be sore shaken if not presently shattered and ruined that things would presently run into confusion distractions and divisions as the event soon shewed 2. They promote the Interest of Rome says that learned Author by opposing it with more violence than reason in opposing Popery he observes the Episcopal Divines have done it by dint of Argument the Non-conformists by opprobrious clamours revilings c. so that it hath been obsâ—rved says he that in Lancashire and other places where there are most and most rigid Presbyterians there are the most and most zealous Papists Thus that judicious and learned Prelate 3. Non-conformists promote Popery by causing those divisions in the Church which Jesuits have endeavoured among us as more conducible to Popery than all their strength of Argument as is said to be determined at Rome in their concilium de propaganda fide And as Mr. Baxter observes in his Collections out of Contzen the Jesuite and in his Defence of the Principles of
and Convocations by their being à secretis with profest Non-conformists by their Self-designing compliances with them under pretence of Moderation similibus whereby they contribute as much to the encouragement of Dissenters as the professed Encouragers themselves like King Charles's Presbyterian Murderers who had the Villany to manage the contrivance but the Cunning to disappear in the Execution These Half-Conformists are the veriest Church-Moles that by their blind Principles and undermining Practices contribute little less to the increase and interest of Non-conformity to the danger and dishonour of the Church than the open Enemy whether Popish or Peevish And of this we have frequent instances particularly in Archbishop Grindal whose indulgence to that Party gave them the first revival in England by his conniving at the Half-Conformists of Yorkshire by his complying first with Beza in procuring a French Church setled in London on the Geneva Principle And afterwards with those who upon their return from Geneva Franckford and other places where they lived during the Marian Persecution were preferred in the Church where they lived for some time Half-Conformists as Cartwright Minister in Warwick Whittingham Dean of Durham Sampson Dean of Christ Church afterwards turned out for Non-conformity with great numbers preferred to Cures in City and Country where they were not wanting to prepare the People for such Innovations as were in after-time to be brought into the Church and by the profest Non-conformists As soon as safety and impunity permitted they broke out into open Schism and still when the Laws just severity frighted them they crept within the Pale of the Church seeming to conform that they might have the Laws protection to shelter their contempt of Authority and under the wing of Episcopacy to breed up their Presbytery When Archbishop Whitgift's zeal and industry had reduced them to that that in all probability their ruptures were crumbling to nothing their then refuge was as Beza advised in his Letter to Cartwright to unite themselves again to the main body of the Church there to be nurtured into contempt of the Churches Government under the indulgence of its Governours And of this kind of Half-Conformists are those who at this very day by outward Conformity have opportunity and by masked Non-conformity want not will through sneaking compliance to betray the Church into her Enemies hands and themselves though they know it not into the veriest contempt and slavery so that in this contemplation we might as the Church of old did by the Waters of Babylon sit down and weep when we remember Zion Zion saith the Prophet tearing her self with her own hands Or as the Tree in the Apologue that was rent and splint and torn asunder by Wedges that came out of its own sides Therefore as we would not hypocritize and dissemble with God and Man as we would not be found Church-Traytors that have espoused a Cause which we are afraid to defend and ashamed to own as we would not be found in conspiracy against our selves and in breach of those solemn Oaths took at our entrance into the Ministry by a dastardly compliance with our own and the Churches Enemies Let us every man to his Tents O Israel with resolution and courage in gain-saying Seducers in daring to look Faction in the Face and opposing it though never so insolent and domineering according to the advice of Mr. Calvin to Bucer that he should take care to avoid moderate counsels in matters of Religion intimating the intense zeal that is required in Ministers in order to the interest and honour of the Church remembring that of the Wise man Eccl. 2. 13. Wo unto them that have a fearful heart and to the faint hands and to the sinner that goeth two manner of ways 3. Their Zeal against Popery a third Expedient So odious is Popery now in England blessed be God for it that even Children will spit at the very naming of it so that a better pretence could never be for the setting up of Presbytery than a shew of the greatest Zeal against Popery and therefore hath it been always accounted the most necessary Tool in the framing of Innovations When the Earl of Bothwel having a mind to the Crown of Scotland could not bring to pass the murder of the King by his dealing with the Witch of Keith nor by his assaulting him first at Haly-rood and afterward at Falkland his last expedient was to join himself with the Presbyterians and act hand in hand with them zealously against Popery and under that holy guise attempted openly to assassinate the King 'T is well known how the very force of this Word Popishly affected blew up three Kingdoms but t'other day hurrying People from the fear of Popery to the prostitution of Christianity it self when to palliate their hellish out-rages against the King they feared not to tax even him of Popery who had said and done as much to satisfie the World of his detestation of Popery and true zeal for the Reformed Religion as the wit of man could devise or the malice of man demand as doth abundantly appear by his Royal Declaration or Manifesto sent from Oxford in 1644. And at this day a fiery zeal against Popery is the best expedient they have 't is that single pretext that supports their Cause to accuse Governours or Government of Popery is an expedient that in England never yet failed to render them odious to the multitude Now that the design of these groundless out-cries against Popery is not so much to keep down Popery as to promote Presbytery will appear very probable to any that shall but examine the way and manner of their exercising this Zeal which is threefold 1. Branding with the Name of Papist or Popishly affected every one that is not of or at least that sets himself against their Principle and Practice Archbishop Whitgift a Prelate of the greatest Piety and Learning eminent for his zeal against Popery yet because against Presbytery also they stiled him Beelzebub of Canterbury Pope of Lambeth a monstruous Antichristianism Pope c. and but the other day in Smith's Protestant Intelligence the King's Council is called Popish of the 26 Bishops four are called Protestant and all the rest Popish To that pass are things now brought that whoever will not side vote and petition as they would have them whoever speaks reverently of the Orthodox Clergy of the Order and Discipline of the Churches of England in vindication of loyal Episcopacy against a confused and factious Presbytery is presently a Tory and Popishly affected and why all this but for a Blind or Stratagem to blend and confound Popery and Prelacy that People may not distinguish but destroy one under the name and pretence of the other I shall not insist upon the Malice and Diabolism of these slanderous imputations it will somewhat discover their design if we do but take notice what little reason they have thus to traduce our Church and Church Rulers
and Confusion in both That the Grindallizers and Half-Conformists threaten little less to the danger and dishonour of the Church than the open and profest Non-conformists that their great familiarity and intimacy with their complying and conniving at and instead of zealous prudent opposition their halting and sneaking to them is that which cannot but work in People a love and liking to their persons and their ways and so by their treachery within the Pale like Moles undermine the Foundation when the other like Wolves and Foxes can but howl and foam without the Mound and Fence of the Church being strong enough against them And that therefore the Eye of Government had need be watchful over these Half-Conformists as well as over the professed Non-conformists That notwithstanding Non-conformists noise about Popery they are far more conformable to Papists than the Conformists are in principle and practice both that in things relating to Monarchy they are meerly be-jesuited and Popishly agent in weakening the Cause and Interest of Protestantism several ways as hath been shewn and that by their extravagant zeal their irregular disloyal and irreligious pretences against Popery they design something more since common History makes evident that Presbytery was never promoted any where but under pretence of pulling down Popery 'T is obvious from the afore-mentioned Instances of their former Reformation how dangerous is all superperfluous Innovations unnecessary alterations and but pretended Reformation in matters of Church and State That so far as the Laws permit they are still hunting upon the same File treading in the same steps as those in Forty one since the pretences and practices of both are so very self-agreeable and since the best of History assures us that Discontent and Ambition Faction and Sedition Libelling and Tumultuating have been the ordinary promoting causes of their Interest and Cause That the Non-conformists will never make good appeals to Scripture their claim and pretensions to Sanctity above others till putting away the Diabolism of their false accusations and slanderings their spiritual pride and malice they become more humble and charitable in their judgments more meek and loyal in their behaviour and discourses submitting themselves to those that have the rule over them bewailing before God and publishing to the World their Repentance for what they have contributed to the present sad Separation as that which hinders the success of a learned orthodox and able Ministry encourages the Papists and multiplies other Sects scandalizes the Weak hardens the Infidel and wicked into a scorn and contempt of Religion it self exasperates Rulers tends to Sedition and Faction weakens the Church and the Kingdom causes such envy and wrath hatred and contentions as the Apostle speaks such biting and devouring one another as is like enough to end in being consumed one of another Since the present state of things is such that either these things must be put upon the score of Religion or that the Non-conformists must take the shame thereof unto themselves and vindicate the honour of Religion by a full and free acknowledgment to the World of their pernicious errours in the present Separation What men fearing God would dare to justifie a Separation which hath so deplorable and dismal tendencies as afore-mentioned Their laying the Separation at our doors and charging it upon the King and ParlJam nt in causing such impositions as they cannot in conscience submit to hath been sufficiently proved to be delusory impudent and false by the testimony of the Reformed Churches beyond Seas as well as by our English Divines as may be seen in the French History of Presbytery in the Letters appendiced to Dr. Stillingfleets Separation c. And if they have any mind to lay down their Schismatical doings to leave the Conventicle and to come into the Pale of the Church bringing their Flocks with them and there behave themselves as the Disciples of Christ and Sons of the Church sound and sincere in their Conformity peaceable and loyal in their behaviour if so behold the sweet severity and prudent goodness of our Rulers to them in chusing this very crisis of time to execute the Laws against them when that which they call the great Mountain in their way is removed viz. the obligation to renounce the Solemn League and Covenant ceases which they cannot but look on as their Rulers gentle driving through that gap which this 28. of March opens to them But if this severity of Rulers will not drive them let the examples of their Predecessors the learnedst of them lead them Beza himself when Archbishop Whitgift in a long and learned Letter laid before him the deplorable rupture which not without his concurrence had been made in the Church of England he justified the Church in her whole proceedings so clearly that Beza confest himself conquered and thence-forward never breathed any thing but Peace to the Church and respect to that Reverend Prelate Cartwright after all his clamours and tumultuous proceedings against Conformity when he saw to what sad ends he brought some of his Followers Barrow Penry c. and with what horrible confusions he had disturbed the Church he was at last content to conform he confessed that there was more Discipline in the Church of England than in any of those Churches beyond the Seas therefore more than in Geneva and other transmarine parts in which he lived where Presbytery was After some time of imprisonment the Archbishop procured his enlargement which he accepted promising never to write preach or act in any thing to the disturbance of the Church either in reference to its Government or Forms of Worship Henderson that greatest Champion for Presbytery in his time was so confuted by King Charles I. in a dispute about Church-Government and so confounded with shame and grief at the Kings Answers to his Cavils that he fell into a desperate melancholy and sickness which soon brought him to his Grave professing says that learned Historian that he died a Convert frequently extolling those great abilities which he declared to be in his Majesty And t'other day Lewis Du-Moulin after he had written his Several advances of the Church of England towards the Church of Rome and done all he could against Conformity at last repents and recants acknowledging his errours And now Mr. Baxter's turn is next if it please God to hear and answer that good Prayer of his for himself in his Cure of Church-division Lord hide not from me my miscarriages and suffer me not to take any sin that I have committed to be my innocency or duty lest I should dare to father sin on God and lest I should live and die without repentance and lest I should be one that continueth judgments and dangers to the Land Amen FINIS Val. Max. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How Presbytery first got footing in England Cambdens Eliz. Aer Red. l. 11. n. 1. Conf. at Hampton-Court p. 85. * August Vincentio Ep. 48. Bonifacio Ep. 68. Ceciliano Ep. 166. Ep. ad Dona. ⸫ Ep. 48. l. 5. August Ep. 166. L. G. Mr. Baxter Crescit indulgens sibi diruâ— hydrops Hor. Plea for Peace Preface * The King forbids none preaching only regulates preaching ⸫ Jam. 1. 8. Jam. 4. 8. Camd. Eliz. Aâ—r. Red. H. Common-wealth Pref. Bellarm de Pontif. l. 3. c. 7. Call before the ParlJam Dec. 25 1644. Pol. Apho. Thes. 358. with 368. Buchan de jure Reg. p. 70. Zion's Plea Serm. at Uxbridge Treaty French Hist. of Presbyt p 88. French Hist. of Presbyt p. 88 89. Mach. Rediv. p. 71. Col. 2. 5. Gal. 5. 12. Pref. to his Serm. §. 17. Pref. to his Serm. §. 18. Pol. Aph. Fuller Seasonable Address to the Parl. p. 8. Cambd. Eliz. Lib. 3. cap. 16. Eph. 4. 14. 2 Cor. 4. 2. Dr. Hammond observes that that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence the first Non-conformists the Gnosticks had their names signifies such a knowledge as was the interpreting the mysteries of the Scripture after their own fansie erroneously Annot. on the N. Test. Postscript concerning New-light p. 12. lin 6. preliminary to Matthew * This Translation was made about the time that Cartwright who had a hand in it was denied his Doctors Degree and driven out of Cambridge by Doctor Whitgift then Vicechancellor * Last Chap. Ver. 18. †2 Tim. 3. 16. 1 Chron. 23. 5 6. 2 Chron. 30. 5. V. 17. Sir Richard Baker Chron. p. 359. Instit. l. 4. cap. 10. §. 30. Barkley's Paraenesis ad Scotos l. 1. c. ult Reasons of the Christian Religion Jude 8. 9 11 This description the Apostle gives of the Gnosticks to prove them Seducers Catho Theol. Pref. Ep. 48. Ep. 166. 17◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 27. Calamy Serm. to the House of Lords Marshall * Cartwright the great opposer of Kneeling at the Sacrament died of a Disease that for a considerable time before his death yielded him no rest or ease in any other gesture but upon his Knees who had so bitterly inveighed against those who in that reverend and religious posture received the Sacrament Aer Red. Aër Red. l. 13. * Not that eminently loyal Sandys of Worcestershire but he that within three Weeks after was killed at Worcester fight in Pewick Field The very Heathens made it Treason not onely to assassinate but to offer to punish their Prince but in Effigie Salust Bell. Jugurth What is it then for Christians to God their Saviour in Effigie Serm. before the Parl. 1644. First Plea for Peace * Set forth by Mr. Rob. Ram Minister Cap. 20. First Plea for Peace * Dr. Hammond Annot. on the N. T. pag. preliminary to the Romans Disobedience to an inferiour Authority among the Jews was to be punished with death Deut. 〈◊〉 Obj. Obj. Dr. Hammond's Annot. on 1 Tim. 6. 3. 1 Pet. 2. 26. Gal. 5. 5. Obj. Cath. Theol. Praef. According to their Sol. Leag and Covenant Job 34. 18. I King 21. 10. Deut 17. 12. Aë Red. Alt. Damas. Pref. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 5. 15. * March 28. 1682. the renouncing of the Covenant is not injoined See the Act of Uniformity History of Presbytery l. 9. n. 34. History of Presbytery l. 9. n. 30. 33. 35. Hist. of Presbytery p. 77. Dr. Stillingfleet Pres. to the Unreasonableness of Separation P. 251.