duc'd to make bold with, and to fet them to their own Tune, with a new Key and Text, or Title, for want of a stock of their own, at least of that kind) the Tender-Confcienc'd Preachers might have ftill continu'd pretended Theodidacts, and felfknowing Gnofticks, and have ftill Profefs'd Enthufiafm, with as large Effufion of their own Private Spirit as they fhould have thought fit for any prefent Turn or Intereft, to the end of their Carrière: Which would have stretch'd but very flowly, and. not near its prefent length, had not fome overzealous Members of the Church of England quicken'd their Paces, by Hooping and Hallowing at them; and given them the Advantage, as well as Honour, of being Angry with them, by fome uncharitable Refentments, which were but ill bestow'd upon fuch Objects of Pity and Compaffion; whom, 'tis hop'd, the Church of EnglandLaity as well as Clergy, High as well as Low, will look upon them as fuch, without any Bitterness or Rancour, but with a Commiferating Afpect, according to its Primitive Characteristick, Identify'd with that of Christianity, viz. with Church of England-Charity: which is the only Chriftian Conduct that can ever re-unite them to the English Church-Communion; which can't be Defpaired of, under the Influences of fo Healing and Uniting a Prince and Sovereign, as his moft Gracious Majesty King GEORGE, &c. Is Univerfally known to be, &c.

But thofe more inward Refentments, and more vital Animofities, and the moft corrofive Antipathy between High and Low Churchmen feem almoft remedilefs and irreconcileable, without a Miraculous Arm of Providence, joyn'd to that of His Sacred Majef the mean time

it would not be amifs to hearken to what the Wife Lord Clarendon interpofes in this Affair, who faw the dire effects of Whig and Tory-Diftinctions,and the confequential Revulfions of Church and State thereupon: He (Laud, fays that Sage Chancellor, Hift. Vol.1. p. 68. of the Folio-Edition) entertained too much Prejudice to fome Perfons, as if they were Enemies to the Difcipline of the Church, because they concurr'd with Calvin in fome Doctrinal Parts, when they abhorr'd his Difcipline, and reverenc'd the Government of the Church, and pray'd for the Peace of it, with as much Zeal and Fervency, as any in the Kingdom, as they made manifeft in their Lives, and in their Sufferings with it and for it. --- pag. 72. Either Side defended the different Opinions (of Armin. and Gomar.) as the Doctrine of the Church of England; as the two great Orders in the Church of Rome, the Dominicans and the Francifcans &c. --- which had been ever Wifer than to determine the Controverfie. P. 74. Then the Manner and Gesture, and Pofture, in the Celebration of it (the Sacrament) brought in new Difputes, And thofe Difputes brought in new Words and Terms, (Altar, Adoration and Geneflexion, and other expreffi ons.) --- Some of the Bishops were backward, others refufing to meddle with thofe Changes, The Subordinate Clergy pretended to make thofe Alterations not only without, but even against their Bifhops Injunctions, and by their own Authority made thofe Reformations.--He (Land) Profecuted this Affair more paffionately than was fit for the Seafon. Williams Bishop of Lincoln call'd them Innovations in Religion: --- A Schifm almoft among the Bishops thereupon. - p. 163. Whereof (the Convocation) fome fharp Ganons against Sectaries, and fome Additionals in point of Ceremonies, the making an Qath and Subfidies upon the Laity as well as the Clergy, was strictly amifs.&c. p.173---p. 116. In a Word,(The Convocation

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Convocation in thofe days)did many things which in the beft of times might have been questioned.--- p. 183. Their own Clergy, whofe hands they produc'd in great numbers (against the Bishops)to complain against the Innovations and Ceremonies, were far from being of one Mind, in the Matter or Manner of what they wish'd fhould be alter'd. ----There was lefs Confent amongst their Lay-Friends in Ecclefiaftical Affairs, &c.

'Twould be needlefs to enlarge upon the Wif dom or Seafonableness of these Points of Meditation for the over-warm Zealots of the Church-Communion, who thought it became them to fet their Wits against an inconfiderable Set of Diffenters, (who are able, God be Prais'd, to endanger nothing but their own Welfare here and hereafter) and much more unrea fonably against those that Favour the others, no otherwife than with that Moderation and Temper which they learn't from the Catholick Charity of the Church of England, which no Body better knew the Neceffity of, than that Noble Hiftorian of those faid fad Facts, which with his own Eyes he faw brought upon the Contitution of Church and State, by the unwarrantable,as well as unfeafonable Heats of thofe that indi1 rectly pretended to exalt the Church, by the PerL.cuting-Principles of Romish and French Measures.

49. The brightest and learned'ft English Romanist of that Age, was, without difpute, Sir Thomas More, who writ the most learnedly and the most numerous Treatifes of them all, yet fcarce any of his Books exceed the quantity or quality of a Pamphlet; whereof fome were writ in English, and fome in Latin: His English Libels were thefe, viz.

A Merry Fest how a Sergeant would Learn to Play a Fryar, writ in Verfe, &c. Verfes on a Hanging of a Painted Cloth in his Father's Houfe: Containing Nine Pageants

Pageants and Verfes in each, &c. Lamentation on" the Death of Queen Elizabeth, Wife to King H, 7. An. 1503, &c. Verfes on the Book of Fortune, &c. These four Libels being Written in his Youth, are not Number'd amongst his Works, &c.

The first then, of his Hiftorical Pamphlets, is reckon'd, The Hiftory of Richard the 3d, &c. The Life of John Picus Earl of Mirandula, &c. History of the pitiful Life and unfortunate Death of Edward the 5th, and the then Duke of York his Brother, &c. The Tragical History of King Richard the 3d; both which laft were printed at London, as Pofthumous Works, in 1651. Oct. and not collected amongst any of the Editions of his Works together.

His Controvertistical Pamphlets are, A Dialogue concerning Herefies and matters of Religion, &c. Supplication of Souls, made againft the Supplication of Beggars. ----This is fometimes call'd, The Supplication of Purgatory, written against that of Beggars, made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn, Gentleman, &c. The confutation of Tyndal's Anfwer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogues, &c. The 2d Part of the Confutation--written 1533. &c. Answer to Frith's Book, made against the Bleffed Sacrament,----written the fame Year, &c. An Apology.---This was written against a Book, Intituled, A Treatife of the Divifion between the Spirituality and Temporality. Against which Apology, was publish'd a Book call'd, Salem & Bizance written Dialogue-wife, Lond. 1533. Oct. The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance, Lond. 1533. O&. &c. Anfwer to the first part of the Poyfon'd Book, which a Nameless Heretick hath nam'd, The Supper of the Lord, &c. Refponfio ad convicia Martini Lutheri, written in the Year 1533. This is doubtless the fame with Vindicatio Henrici 8. Regis Anglia & Gallia â calumniis Lutheri, Lond. 1523.

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qu. publish'd under the Name of Gulielmus Roffeus,

His Humanistical Pamphlets be, Epigrammata, Edit. Bafil. 1518, 1563. O&.& Lond. 1638. c. Progymnafmata, Edit. Bafil. 1563.&c. Lucian's Works tranflated from Greek into Latin, Bafil. 1563. &c. Epiftola, Bafil. 1563. & Lond. 1642. c. Epiftola ad Academ. Oxon. An. 1519. Edit. Oxon. 1633. qu. &cr

His Political Pamphlets, are not only the forementioned Historical Tracts, but also another in Latin, both then and ever fince in great efteem, under the Title, De optimo reipublicæ ftatu, deq, nova Infula Utopia, libellus aureus, &c. Edit. Bafil. 1518. and 1563. in qu. & Oxon. 1663. in Oct. And translated into English,with notes added to it in the Margin, by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. printed at Lond. 1557. Oct. publifh'd alfo at the fame place, in 1630. Oct. by one Bernard Alfop, who dedicates it to Creffacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Efquire, one of the Pofterity and next in Blood to our Author, Sir Thomas More. The faid Utopia was publish'd alfo in Italian, at Venice, 1548. &c.

His pious Pamphlets are, Treatife upon the Paffion of Chrift, &c. A Godly Instruction, &c. A Godly Meditation, &c. A Devout Prayer, &c. A Letter to bis Lady, his Wife, &c. Certain Letters written by him, after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor, &c. Certain Letters written by him, while he was Prifoner in the Tower, &c. A Godly Inftruction written in Latin, &c. Expofitio Paffionis Domini, &c. Quod pro fide mors fugienda non eft--written in the Tower of London 1534.c. Precationes ex Pfalmis---collected there the fame Year, &c. Imploratio divini Auxilij contra tentationem, cum infultatione contra Damones, ex Spe & fiducia in Deum. Lugd. 1572. &c. His Epitaph, in Latin, &c.

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