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Ans. 1 Are those men lovers of Love and Concord who purposely make use of pardoned acts to keep the Kingdoms wounds still open? Did not the King tell you in his Declarations and Act of Oblivion, that the putting up of all (save to the excepted persons) and closing for the future in mutual love, was the only way to the Nations peace? You would tempt men to think that you desire to see such days again, by trying whether destroying men will tempt nature to a self-defence.

2. But you have oft had it proved (by Henry Fowlis, Bishop Barlow and abundance more) that no Protestants come near the ⟨p. 131⟩Principles and Practices of the Papists, as to King-killing and Rebellion. And if yet you know not that the War began between two parties of Episcopal conformists, here among the English, you are unfit to judge of that which you know not: And by reading Rushworth, Whitlock or any true Histories of such times and matters, you may be better informed: As you may of their different principles if you read Jewel, Bishop Bilson, and Richard Hooker on one side, and Mainwarning and Sibthorp on the other.

2. But you have oft had it proved (by Henry Fowlis, Bishop Barlow and abundance more) that no Protestants come near the ⟨p. 131⟩Principles and Practices of the Papists, as to King-killing and Rebellion. And if yet you know not that the War began between two parties of Episcopal conformists, here among the English, you are unfit to judge of that which you know not: And by reading Rushworth, Whitlock or any true Histories of such times and matters, you may be better informed: As you may of their different principles if you read Iewel, Bishop Bilson, and Richard Hooker on one side, and Mainwarning and Sibthorp on the other.