In a late Treatise De Antiqua Ecclesiae Brittanicae libertate Diatribe, written by I. B. a Divine of the Church of England, and printed at Bruges, 1656 pag. 34, 35. Thes. 4. it is averred [That since the ancient liberty of the British Church was by the consent of the whole Kingdom resumed, remaining Catholic in all other things, it may retain that Liberty without losing its Catholicism, and without any note of Schism or Heresy] This Liberty then was the Reformation. And this he saith was maintained by Barnes, a Papist and Benedictine Monk and Priest in a M. S. entitled Catholico-Romanus Pacificus, c. 3. and that for this sober work of his the Peaceable Monk, though of unblamed life, and unspotted fame, was snatch out of the midst of Paris, and stripped of his habit, and bound on a Horse-back like a Calf, and violently carried into Flanders, and so to Rome, and so to the Inquisition, and then put among the Bedlams, where he dyed; and not contented with his death, they defamed him to have dyed mad] Though Rome give Peace no better entertainment, the Learned Author thinks that France will; and therefore adds concerning the French Church, [Quâcum [Greek or Hebrew] optanda foret etiamnum veteris redintegratio concordiae, quam constat plus mille ab hinc annis amicissime intercessisse inter Ecclesiam utramque Gallicanam & Brittanicam, etiam tum cum Ecclesia Brittanica non communicabat cum Romanâ, & certe si utraque pars absque prejudicio, sese mutuo intelligeret, & pars extrema de rigore suo vellet remittere, ea Brittanicae Ecclesiae cum Gallicana concensio non foret adeo improbabilis, atque prima fronte videtur Ecclesiam utramque vel alterutram ignorantibus.] I add this but to show the Judgement of those on whom the judgement of Grotius had any influence, for a Communion with the French, as if we little differed from them. Still professing that I would run with the forwardest to meet them upon tolerable terms: And that the remembrance of the moderation, wisdom, charity of the Cassandrian party in France (that resisted the violence of the rest long in vain, and lamented the massacres, and were oppressed by them) is very grateful to my thoughts, and the names of many of them very honourable in my esteem. And it grieves me that Grotius called by Mr. Pierce a Protestant, should so far out-go them in Popery, whom the same man confesseth to have been Papists.
In a late Treatise De Antiqua Ecclesiae Brittanicae libertate Diatribe, written by I. B. a Divine of the Church of England, and printed at Bruges, 1656 pag. 34, 35. Thes. 4. it is averred [That since the ancient liberty of the British Church was by the consent of the whole Kingdom resumed, remaining Catholick in all other things, it may retain that Liberty without losing its Catholicism, and without any note of Schism or Heresie] This Liberty then was the Reformation. And this he saith was maintained by Barnes, a Papist and Benedictine Monk and Priest in a M. S. entituled Catholico-Romanus Pacificus, c. 3. and that for this sober work of his the Peaceable Monk, though of unblamed life, and unspotted fame, was snatch out of the midst of Paris, and stript of his habit, and bound on a Horse-back like a Calf, and violently carryed into Flanders, and so to Rome, and so to the Inquisition, and then put among the Bedlams, where he dyed; and not contented with his death, they defamed him to have dyed mad] Though Rome give Peace no better entertainment, the Learned Author thinks that France will; and therefore adds concerning the French Church, [Quâcum 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 optanda foret etiamnum veteris redintegratio concordiae, quam constat plus mille ab hinc annis amicissime intercessisse inter Ecclesiam utramque Gallicanam & Brittanicam, etiam tum cum Ecclesia Brittanica non communicabat cum Romanâ, & certe si utraque pars absque prejudicio, sese mutuo intelligeret, & pars extrema de rigore suo vellet remittere, ea Brittanicae Ecclesiae cum Gallicana concensio non foret adeo improbabilis, atque prima fronte videtur Ecclesiam utramque vel alterutram ignorantibus.] I add this but to shew the Judgement of those on whom the judgement of Grotius had any influence, for a Communion with the French, as if we little differed from them. Still professing that I would run with the forwardest to meet them upon tolerable terms: And that the remembrance of the moderation, wisdom, charity of the Cassandrian party in France (that resisted the violence of the rest long in vain, and lamented the massacres, and were oppressed by them) is very greateful to my thoughts, and the names of many of them very honorable in my esteem. And it grieves me that Grotius called by Mr. Pierce a Protestant, should so far out-go them in Popery, whom the same man confesseth to have been Papists.
