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

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 ⟨image 9⟩of the Doctrine of all the General Councils, even that of Trent. I do not think you all hold that our Reformers followed the measure of Erasmus, though some say so? Nor that you all blame the casting of Images out of the Churches as much as Dr. Richard Cox did in his epistle to Cassander? Was the sharp Arch-Bishop Whitgift and the rest that were for the Lambeth Articles, and our great Divines that went to Dort, and the Parliaments that decried Arminianism, of the same mind as Arch-Bishop Laud, Neal, Buckeridge, Corbet and Mountague? Why then do you tell us of an odd dissenter, or of sects that we own not, or expect that among us there should be no differences? Are we not men?