As a summary Confutation of a multitude of his Lies, I at once tell the Reader, that I neither was nor am for the way called Presbytery, Independency, or the English Diocesan way: But for the mixture described excellently by Grotius de Imper. Sum. Pot. and Bishop Usher, and Sir Edward Deering, whose Counsel I wished that the Parliament had followed. And that I was and am far from defending the irregular Actions of the Parliament, or any Members of it: Tho' they thought that the Delinquents had put a necessity on them to overgo their own Judgments to please the Scots, and the Indiscreet and Schismatical part of the Nonconformists, I doubt not but they did ill herein, and should have trusted God in the use of none but lawful means: I believe that a few Men by Craft and unwearied Industry over-reached many that knew not what they did: Sir Edward Deering nameth some of them, especially Sir H. V. Sir A. H. and O. C. that over-reached his own upholders and all the rest: I believe they did ill to excite and encourage disorder and tumults on pretence of Petitioning, and of scurrilous defamations ⟨p. 49⟩of such Men as the Lord Falkland, the Lord Digby, Sir Edward Dering, and some other worthy Men, and so many good Bishops as they abused. And yet that I durst not for these miscarriages, consent to give up the Kingdoms Parliamentary Security for its present and future Safety and Liberties, I still think is consonant to the most common Principles of Lawyers, Politic Writers, Historians, Divines, Protestants, Papists and Heathens.
As a summary Confutation of a multitude of his Lies, I at once tell the Reader, that I neither was nor am for the way called Presbytery, Independency, or the English Diocesane way: But for the mixture described excellently by Grotius de Imper. Sum. Pot. and Bishop Usher, and Sir Edward Deering, whose Counsel I wish'd that the Parliament had followed. And that I was and am far from defending the irregular Actions of the Parliament, or any Members of it: Tho' they thought that the Delinquents had put a necessity on them to overgo their own Judgments to please the Scots, and the Indiscreet and Schismatical part of the Nonconformists, I doubt not but they did ill herein, and should have trusted God in the use of none but lawful means: I believe that a few Men by Craft and unwearied Industry over-reach'd many that knew not what they did: Sir Edward Deering nameth some of them, especially Sir H. V. Sir A. H. and O. C. that over-reach'd his own upholders and all the rest: I believe they did ill to excite and encourage disorder and tumults on pretence of Petitioning, and of scurrilous defamations ⟨p. 49⟩of such Men as the Lord Falkland, the Lord Digby, Sir Edward Dering, and some other worthy Men, and so many good Bishops as they abused. And yet that I durst not for these miscarriages, consent to give up the Kingdoms Parliamentary Security for its present and future Safety and Liberties, I still think is consonant to the most common Principles of Lawyers, Politick Writers, Historians, Divines, Protestants, Papists and Heathens.
