The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…

4. The Conformists shortly fell into dissension among themselves, especially about three things, Arminianism (as it was called) and Conciliation with the Church of Rome, and Prerogative: Dr. Heylin in the Life of ArchBishop Laud doth fully open all these differences, and tells us that Archbishop Abbot was the Head of one party, and in point of Antiarminianism even Archbishop Whitgist before him, with Whitaker and others had made the Lambeth Articles, driven the Arminians from Cambridge: King James had discountenanced them in Holland, and sent six ⟨p. 123⟩Divines to the Synod of Dort, who owned and helped to form those Articles: And he tells us that Bishop Laud had no Bishops on his side but Bishop Neal, Bishop Buckeridge, Bishop Corbet, and Bishop Howson, and after Bishop Mountague, and thought it not safe to trust his Cause to a Convocation; the major part called then The Church of England, 1. Cried down Arminianism as dangerous Doctrine; 2. Cried down any nearer approach to the Papists, and the Toleration of them; 3. And were much for the Law against absoluteness in the King; and Dr. Heylins and Rushworth's Collect. will tell you the full story of Manwaring & Sibthorp, and Archbishop Abbots refusing to license Sibthorp's Book, and the Consequents of all. Thus these two Parties grew into jealousies, the Old Church-men accusing the New on these three accounts, and the New ones striving, as Dr. Heylin describeth them, to get into power and overturn the Old.

4. The Conformists shortly fell into dissension among themselves, especially about three things, Arminianism (as it was called) and Conciliation with the Church of Rome, and Prerogative: Dr. Heylin in the Life of ArchBishop Laud doth fully open all these differences, and tells us that Archbishop Abbot was the Head of one party, and in point of Antiarminianism even Archbishop Whitgist before him, with Whitaker and others had made the Lambeth Articles, driven the Arminians from Cambridge: King James had discountenanced them in Holland, and sent six ⟨p. 123⟩Divines to the Synod of Dort, who owned and helpt to form those Articles: And he tells us that Bishop Laud had no Bishops on his side but Bishop Neale, Bishop Buckeridge, Bishop Corbet, and Bishop Howson, and after Bishop Mountague, and thought it not safe to trust his Cause to a Convocation; the major part called then The Church of England, 1. Cryed down Arminianism as dangerous Doctrine; 2. Cryed down any neerer approach to the Papists, and the Toleration of them; 3. And were much for the Law against absoluteness in the King; and Dr. Heylins and Rushworth's Collect. will tell you the full story of Manwaring & Sibthorp, and Archbishop Abbots refusing to license Sibthorp's Book, and the Consequents of all. Thus these two Parties grew into jealousies, the Old Church-men accusing the New on these three accounts, and the New ones striving, as Dr. Heylin describeth them, to get into power and overturn the Old.