Against the revolt to a foreign jurisdiction, which would be to England its perjury,…

These were their apprehensions then of Popery.

§ 7. In K. James's time the horrid Powder Plot to have blown up King and Parliament, and the Murder of Two Kings in France successively, H. 3. and H. 4. and other Inhumanities, increased this Kingdoms Zeal against Popery. As the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were made for their discovery, so multitudes of Learned Men were employed in confuting their pretended Sovereignty and manifold Errors. And the common Preachers had ordinarily in their Sermons One Use, as they called it, for the Confutation of the Papists. Besides that the Homilies and Jewels writings against them were to be in every Church. And as many of the Bishops in Queen Elizabeth's first time were such as had been Exiles and Suffered by the Papists, so many both in her days and K. James's, were Learned and Godly Men, who remembered former times, and were greatly desirous of the Extirpation of Popery, and of the increase of able Preachers, and of the Concord of Protestants to that End. And the Books of Martyrs written by John Fox being common in all parts of the Land, increased the peoples hatred of Religious cruelty. But some few Bishops (specially A. Bishop Whitguift and Bancroft) exceeded ⟨p. 22⟩the rest in their prosecution of the Nonconformists; And though before by connivance they had enjoyed more quietness, yet when once the Canon was made and Executed for Subscribing that [there is nothing contrary to the Word of God in the Liturgy, &c.] and the Excommunicating Canons, five, six, seven, &c. the reconciliation of the Protestants seemed hopeless.

§ 7. In K. James's time the horrid Powder Plot to have blown up King and Parliament, and the Murder of Two Kings in France successively, H. 3. and H. 4. and other Inhumanities, increased this Kingdoms Zeal against Popery. As the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were made for their discovery, so multitudes of Learned Men were employed in confuting their pretended Sovereignty and manifold Errors. And the common Preachers had ordinarily in their Sermons One Vse, as they called it, for the Confutation of the Papists. Besides that the Homilies and Jewels writings against them were to be in every Church. And as many of the Bishops in Queen Elizabeth's first time were such as had been Exiles and Suffered by the Papists, so many both in her days and K. James's, were Learned and Godly Men, who remembred former times, and were greatly desirous of the Extirpation of Popery, and of the increase of able Preachers, and of the Concord of Protestants to that End. And the Books of Martyrs written by John Fox being common in all parts of the Land, increased the peoples hatred of Religious cruelty. But some few Bishops (specially A. Bishop Whitguift and Bancroft) exceeded