The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…

II. Is it the Church of England only whose Principles they prefer? 1. Wherein do we differ from them? Do we not subscribe their Articles, Canons and Homilies as to civil Government? And if we subscribe not the New Covenant or Profession, for the Phrases [Any Commissioned] and [on any pretence whatsoever] that proveth no Doctrinal difference from them, that subscribe them only in a sense which we never were against, and who would not do it, if they understood them properly. 2. Were B. Jewel, Bilson, and Mr. Hooker, none of the Church of England? were not the Bishops and Convocation in A. B. Abbots days, the Representative Church of England? Were not the Parliaments ⟨image 8⟩that followed them of the Church of England? Was it only Dr. Sibthorp and Dr. Mainwaring and a few such cried down by Parliaments and Prelates that were the Church of England? Doth not B. Bramhall own Grotius as designed for preferment in this Church? 3. And are not the worthy Conformable Clergy, and Parliament, who are yet against the Principles of Sibthorp and Mainwaring part of the Church of England?

It may be you will say [All the Nonconformists be not of your principles, and what then is this to excuse the rest?] And many talk of one Goodman and Buchanan in Scotland, and of Vindiciae contra Tyrannos (falsely charged on Beza, and written by Hubert Languet.)

It may be you will say [All the Nonconformists be not of your principles, and what then is this to excuse the rest?] And many talk of one Goodman and Buchanan in Scotland, and of Vindiciae contra Tyrannos (falsly charged on Beza, and written by Hubert Languet.)

Answ. And indeed, are all the Church of England of one mind? Are they all of Sibthorp's mind on one side? Or are they all of Jewel, Hooker and Bilsons mind on the other side? Did they not differ when most followed Abbot (the refuser of Sibthorp's book,) and the rest followed Bishop Laud? and when the two parties began the war, were they all of the mind of Williams Arch-Bishop of York who was a Commander in arms for the Parliament? Show us the doctrine of the Church for Loyalty which we receive not, and wherein in this we come behind you. Do all the Church of England agree with Mr. Thorndike, Mr. Dodwel, or Dr. Heylin? Read this mans History of the Reformation, and see how he exposeth it to scorn? Read his history of Presbytery, and his life of Arch-Bishop Laud, and tell as whether you are all of that mind. There is a Papist that hath written an Historical Collection of the horrid confusions of the English Reformation almost all verbatim out of Dr. Heylins History, half as reproachful as Philanax Anglicus; or the Image of both Churches, or any that a Pateson or a Parsons could have written. Yet this was a Dr. of the Church? I do not think that all the Church will join with Bishop Bramhal & Dr. Pierce in the Vindication of Grotius as a Protestant, who writeth for Romes common Mistriship, and for belief