As to the Reasons of their accusations, and the publishing the Articles for Toleration in order to the Sp. and Fr. Match, &c. I pass them by. But because you may say some such think of me as you do of D. M. for what I say in my search for the Schismatics, I only add, 1. That I hope we may transcribe mens own words, 2. And may judge that there is some difference between the Bishops that judged the Pope Antichrist, &c. and those that would have us as the way to unity, to obey him as Patriarch of the West, and principium unitatis, and the first 6 or 8 General Councils, and that say our concord must be in obeying unum Collegium Pastorum, ruling the whole Church per literas formatas, and that say the Roman Church is a true Church, but so are none of the Reformed that have not Bishops, and a continued successive Ordination by such.⟨p. 190⟩
A Copy of a Letter written by Mr. Lewis Du Moulin to the Worthy Dr. Tho. Cox; With the Drs. Answer occasioned by some Reports that concerned Dr. Lewis Du Moulin.
Worthy Sir,
Knowing the natural inclination you have to oblige all men and the particular experience I have of your unwearied goodness to my person and family did encourage me to write both before and now; The occasion of both was the Reports spread abroad of my Father, being informed you had made him the object of your Care during his sickness, I rejoiced that Providence had ordered it so that a Person of your approved worth and Integrity was concerned about him. I shall not trouble you with the Relations Fame has brought into this Country, but shall only desire to know how he died; Was there any advantage taken of his weakness of body or mind; How far did his Reported Recantation extend? Reached it to any material thing of his Tenets, or only in reference to personal Reflections; This is what is humbly desired by,
Honoured Sir, Your most Humble and obliged Servant, Lewis Du Moulin. From my House at Malton in Yorkshire, October the 7th. 1680.
⟨p. 191⟩The Drs. Answer to Mr. Lewis Du Moulin.
Sir,
I Had not delayed to return an Answer to your first Letter, had I known how to direct mine to you, which indeed I had forgotten how to do; This is therefore to let you know that your Father (my honoured Friend) Dr. Du Moulin, Dyed as he had Lived, a truly pious man, a great hater of the Romish Superstition, and of so much of the English Ceremonies as he thought approached those of Rome;
As to the Reasons of their accusations, and the publishing the Articles for Toleration in order to the Sp. and Fr. Match, &c. I pass them by. But because you may say some such think of me as you do of D. M. for what I say in my search for the Schismaticks, I only add, 1. That I hope we may transcribe mens own words, 2. And may judge that there is some difference between the Bishops that judged the Pope Antichrist, &c. and those that would have us as the way to unity, to obey him as Patriarch of the West, and principium unitatis, and the first 6 or 8 General Councils, and that say our concord must be in obeying unum Collegium Pastorum, ruling the whole Church per literas formatas, and that say the Roman Church is a true Church, but so are none of the Reformed that have not Bishops, and a continued successive Ordination by such.⟨p. 190⟩
A Copy of a Letter written by Mr. Lewis Du Moulin to the Worthy Dr. Tho. Coxe; With the Drs. Answer occasioned by some Reports that concerned Dr. Lewis Du Moulin.
Worthy Sir,
KNowing the natural inclination you have to oblige all men and the perticular experience I have of your unwearied goodness to my person and family did incourage me to write both before and now; The occasion of both was the Reports spread abroad of my Father, being informed you had made him the object of your Care during his sickness, I rejoyced that Providence had ordered it so that a Person of your approved worth and Integrity was concerned about him. I shall not trouble you with the Relations Fame has brought into this Country, but shall only desire to know how he died; Was there any advantage taken of his weakness of body or mind; How far did his Reported Recantation extend? Reach'd it to any material thing of his Tenets, or only in reference to personal Reflections; This is what is humbly desired by,
Honoured Sir, Your most Humble and obliged Servant, Lewis Du Moulin. From my House at Malton in Yorkshire, October the 7th. 1680.
⟨p. 191⟩The Drs. Answer to Mr. Lewis Du Moulin.
Sir,
I Had not delayed to return an Answer to your first Letter, had I known how to direct mine to you, which indeed I had forgotten how to do; This is therefore to let you know that your Father (my honourèd Friend) Dr. Du Moulin, Dyed as he had Lived, a truly pious man, a great hater of the Romish Superstition, and of so much of the English Ceremonies as he thought approached those of Rome;
