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of Bucer, that he provoked the good, mild man to write thus to him, Judicas prout amas, vel odisti; amas autem vel odisti, prout libet:' that his judgement was governed by his passions of love and hatred, and these by his lust. And for his bitter speeches Bucer gave him the title of a fratricide."-Bishop Womack.

203. It was common for a church, i. e. a congregation, to educate a promising young man for their pastor. But whether this were done in the English Church I know not. It is the Hugonot church of Bourdeaux which is spoken of, as thus doing in the case of Cameron what " was very common at that period, and worthy to be more generally adopted in modern times."-It cannot be done by congregations who have not the patronage in their own disposal. 205. James a friend, but not patron of Cameron.

C. lost his life for opposing the seditious Hugonots.

206-7. Political character of Calvinism.— Conditional obedience the only trace of conditionality which is to be found throughout their fatal system.

207. The preachers stirred up civil wars in France.

208. Knight's sermon, and Paræus's book burnt. 1622.

209. Grotius's foresight that no empire would be safe any longer than while those who held such principles were destitute of

power.

210. Here is the opinion of a French Protestant Charpentier that the massacre was just and necessary, in order to subdue an impious faction,-for there were two parties among the Protestants, and the turbulent party provoked it. I doubt the Protestantism of such an apologist. I believe the peaceable part would not have escaped persecution: but I believe also, that nothing but the violence and crimes and extravagance of the Reformers prevented the perfect triumph of the Refor

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that Charpentier was paid by the French court for writing its apology.

212. Grotius induced to palliate Popery by his learning, "having traced some of the originally innocent observances of the Romish church up to the purest ages," and because he saw it assuming a milder aspect, and supported by such moderate reformers of it as Thuanus, Cassander, &c. That milder aspect it did not long continue to affect. 292.

216-17. His foresight of the Puritans' views and the danger in Scotland.

221. The Cameronists confess the intemperance of the early Hugonots. They carried into Holland a species of Arminianism.

234. Certain dogmas maintained by the Calvinists not on a belief of their truth, but as supports to other dogmas which could not be maintained without them.

249. Gustavus's success laid the foundations of the Prussian monarchy.

254. The castle of Gutsein. Offence given by a wrongful decision concerning it by the Elector-Palatine King, upon which the ejected sister blew it up, and the officer of justice in it which came to put the Calvinist sister in possession.

255. Political ambition of the Calvinists. 256. Prophecies connected therewith. 262. Jurien.

261. Comenius invited by the Parliament, 1641, to assist in the reformation of the public schools of this kingdom.

268. Owen's atrocious language concerning Ireton.

272-3. Mornay and not Languet said here to have been the Junius Brutus of the Vindicia.

303. Hammond's sermon, 1643, upon the fashion of swearing at the court and in the army.

304. One (?) who maintained that God had hidden from the first Christians the liberty of resisting superiors, as part of his counsel to bring Antichrist into the world; but that he had now manifested it to his casting Antichrist out.

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305. That Christ died for the sins of all mankind, was declared by the ministers of Christ within the province of London, fiftytwo Presbyterian ministers, to wit, 1648, to be an abominable error, a damnable heresy, and a horrid blasphemy.

307. James's error in supporting the Calvinists at Dort, and his strange concession to C. Perrin concerning resistance to kings in matters contrary to God's word.

329. Beal's dying words,―I BELIEVE THE RESURRECTION -a fine example of a double meaning, and of the religious feeling of the loyalists.

333. More ministers deprived in three years by the Presbyterians than in Mary's reign, or than had been suspended by all the bishops from the first year of Elizabeth!

334. Servility of ministers who depend on their patrons and their flocks-well stated both by Heylyn and Nichols.

336. Prince Rupert fighting against those Calvinists on whom his father depended for success in his schemes of ambition.

382. With whom lay the guilt of the King's death,-this is well put by Salmasius. 385.

387. Proofs that the Presbyterian preachers had their full share in instigating the King's death.

392-3. Incendiary language of the two Du Moulins.

395. Respect paid to antiquity by the English Church.

401. Assembly of Divines-their lives written lately by James Reid, who regrets that the Covenant is no longer in operation!

403. Featley. 404. His reward for going with the reforming party. 460.

406. Nye's exhortations to blood.

407. Havoc in the cathedral at Norwich. 409. Say and Pym charged with enriching themselves, &c.

412. Calamy's sermon on Christmas Day. 415. Hammond on toleration. 452. The Covenant. Cromwell's impulses.

458. The preachers called upon to add to

350. Nye's opinion of Marshall and his their faith virtue, “or military valour, as motives. the word generally denotes in Homer," says 359. A good view of the miseries and Mr. Reid. Mr. R. is this what it denotes consequences of this rebellion.

362. Judge Jenkins-his testimony that Charles always required his council to inform him if the suits preferred to him were agreeable to the laws, and not inconvenient to his people, before he would pass them.

376. Nichols well says that the constitution, even at its deepest depression in Charles's days" contained within itself copious materials for self-restoration; and the course pursued by the Calvinistic malcontents was not that which the laws suggested for the redress of grievances."

Vol. 2, p. 378. Jenkins's declaration against abuses. This excellent man's writings ought to be collected.

380. Meric Casaubon's excellent conduct when required by Cromwell to write the history of the war.

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469. Twisse left in poverty, being too old to help himself.

499. The troubles (humanly) foreseen by Mede, Ferrar, Herbert and Jackson, who were all mercifully taken from the wrath that was to come.

501. Mede held it unlawful to pull down churches. He would have had the ground always remain holy.

502-3. Desire of making our church appear attractive to the Catholics. 532. 504. Jeremy Taylor lineally descended from the martyr Rowland Taylor.

520. A scheme for making Thursday the Sabbath.

521. The Eucharist. J. Mede.

532. Bishop Andrews. James, however, had no such bias as is here imputed to

381. Owen. 384-9. 416. The Quaker him. women. 506. 654.

562. Burnet's declaration that resistance

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599. Grotius discouraged from coming to how the same man was thought Whig and England. 634.

606. French Protestants acknowledge the Commonwealth.

607. The Parliament prayed for in the Dutch pulpits.

612. Grotius thought that a war for the Palatinate vigorously pursued would have operated as a safety valve and prevented the rebellion.

613. The Elector Palatine obtained at the treaty of Westphalia no more than had been refused when offered through Charles's ambassador many years before.

Tory.

814. His own account of seeing James at Magdalen "lifting up his lean arm."

Scotland.

1639. “ONE Mary Michelton who for several years had been distracted by certain fits, was reported to be inspired; in which fits thousands resorted to her; she extolled the covenant, and made bitter invectives against the opposers of it. Rol

626. Richelieu's notion of becoming Pa- lock, her favourite, and as was supposed, triarch of France.

635. Selden and Ship Money.

her tutor, being desired to pray with her, answered he durst not do it, it being no

683. Laud's Arminianism the cause of his good manners for him to speak while his unpopularity.

686. Graduation of Calvinism.

master was speaking in her; when as by observation of the most intelligent, it ap

The tendency to invent new forms of peared confederacy, and that she was not worship. entranced; for in her pretended raptures 694. Great number of Roman Catholics she would make pertinent answers; and all in Holland.

she spake was in favour of the covenant, that theirs was from heaven, but that that

699. Jesuit sowing schism. 700. Dr. Weston's knowledge of the Gun- commanded by his majesty from Satan, and powder Plot. that all its adherents should be confounded." -NALSON, vol. 1, p. 93.

730. Hammond's denial that any Papist was ever in this country put to death by the laws for his religion.

733. Effect of the rebellion in strengthening the Papists.

734. Views of Grotius for the Protestant

cause.

735. Queen of Bohemia.

742. Mede upon silencing Nonconformist ministers.

TREATY, 1639.

"Here by the way the reader shall observe a neat piece of presbyterian hypocrisy in Alexander Henderson, the minister of Edinburgh, the most rigid of the faction, and the main engine by whom the covenanting lords wound up the mobile and

753. Vossius shrunk from his duty toward | clergy to those heights. For it had been Laud, his friend and benefactor.

772. State of religion in Scandinavia, not brought about without great difficulty, and some severity also.

by him and his party made a great crime in the bishops and clergy to meddle in secular and civil affairs; and this opinion was universally propagated through the

773. Laud and Cromwell compared in whole party, and stifly maintained by them point of toleration.

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effects of presbytery, this very man thrusts himself into the heat of war, marches and encamps with an army, treats and advises as a commissioner, and to his eternal reproach gives a testimony of hypocrisy against himself and all the associates of his opinion, signing this treaty, which was purely civil, with his own hand."-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 241.

A DISCUSSION between Owen and some of the Scotch ministers at Glasgow, in Cromwell's presence. "Hugh Binning is said to have managed the dispute that he nonplused Cromwell's ministers, which led Oliver to ask, after the meeting was over who that learned and bold young man was. Being told his name was Binning, he hath bound well indeed, said he, but (laying hand on his sword) this will loose all again.”— ORME'S Life of Owen, p. 127. Biographia Scoticana, quoted, p. 167.

"It is more

1638. FIRST commotion. dangerous," says STRAFFORD, writing to Northumberland, "because it falls upon us unexpected, which hath been in a great part occasioned by that unhappy principle of state practised as well by his majesty as by his blessed father, of keeping secret and distinct all the affairs and constitution of that crown from the privity and knowledge of the council of England, insomuch as no man was intrusted, or knew anything, but those of their own nation, which was in effect to continue them two kingdoms still, and to put themselves with confidence upon the faith of his ministers and subjects there, where they might have had the eyes of their English to have watched over them, in timely prevention of all which might grow to the disquiet of the public peace, or prejudice of their own private affairs, or rights of that crown."-STRAFFORD'S Letters, vol. 2, p. 190.

LAUD's opinion that Traquair was treacherous, and why the introduction of the Liturgy had failed so dangerously.—Ibid. vol. 2, p. 264.

Ireland.

"THE barbarism of the soldiers to the Irish was such, that I have heard a relation of my own, who was a captain in that service, relate, that no manner of compassion or discrimination was shewed either to age or sex, but that the little children were promiscuously sufferers with the guilty; and that if any who had some grains of compassion reprehended the soldiers for this unchristian inhumanity, they would scoffingly reply, why? nits will be lice, vol. 2, p. 7. and so would dispatch them."—NALSON,

"THERE is extant in the Paper Office, a petition from Ireland to reverse an order of the Council Board, (in Strafford's time) forbidding them to plough with their horses tyed only to one another's tails, and to use the English way of traces, for their more commodious performing the service of their tillage."-Ibid. 39. p.

that Sir John Clotworthy did in the House "It was confidently averred to the Irish of Commons declare in a speech, that the conversion of the Papists in Ireland was only to be effected by the Bible in one hand, and the sword in the other. And I worth, that Mr. Pym gave out that they have been told by a person of honour and would not leave a priest in Ireland.”— Ibid. p. 536.

"STATE of the army when Wentworth was appointed:-2000 foot, 400 horse, 'all divided into companies of fifties; yet as they are, they give countenance unto justice itself, and are the only comfort that

STRAFFORD.

the poor English undertakers live by; and at this hour the king's revenues are not timely brought in but by force of soldiers."" - LORD WILMOT. STRAFFORD's Letters, vol. 1, p. 61.

"YOUR lordship may believe me out of long experience, I have found these people to be a nation as ready to take the bit in their teeth upon all advantages as any people living, although they pay for it, as many times they have done before, with all that they are worth."-Ibid.

1631. "CERTAIN intelligence of attempts intended by the Turks (Barbary or Morocco Moors) against the western coast of Munster. From Baltimore, a weak English corporation on the coast there, they had carried off above 100 English inhabitants the preceding summer. And the revenue could not by possibility afford to keep more than two pinnaces for the guard of the coasts."-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 68.

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recovery of the weakness, I am wholly of your lordship's belief that the physicians that must cure it are on this side the sea; and further that the fees allowed in those parts are not large enough to tempt them over. And to force them in such a case, I can never hold it fit; for such a work will never be mastered by unwilling hands."Ibid. vol. 1, p. 124.

STATE of the Pope's kingdom in Ireland, warmly expressed by Bedell.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 147. Here too is foresight of the massacre.

"NOR can I answer what became of the primate and the rest of the bishops while the poor inferior clergy were thus oppressed, more than this, that I ever thought it was not in their power to help it. But if any of them be as bad for oppression of the Church as any layman, that I am sure is unanswerable; and if it appears so to you, great pity it is but some one or other of

TRANSPLANTING septs who had no real the chief offenders should be made a public property.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 69.

“I FIND them in this place," says WENT

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example, and turned out of his bishopric. And I believe such a course once held, would do more good in Ireland than any thing that hath been there this forty years."

WORTH, a company of men the most intent-LAUD to Strafford. Ibid. vol. 1, p. 156. upon their own ends that ever I met with." -Ibid. vol. 1, p. 96.

1633. WEXFORD, once the most reformed part of the kingdom, had been Romanized by the priests.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 102.

"I WHOLLY agree with you," says LAUD to Wentworth, "that the wars and their noise stunned the Church; and that since the time of peace it hath scarce thrived any better than it did in the war, must needs be in part charged upon the weakness and negligence of the clergy themselves. For the

"IRELAND in my memory was so replenished with fair hobbies, that they furnished England and other countries, and were everywhere much esteemed. Now we hear so little of them, that it seemeth the honour of breeding for service hath no more esteem."-SECRETARY COKE. STRAFFORD'S Letters, vol. 1, p. 158.

2nd Jan. 1633. STRAFFORD sends an ingot of silver, of 300 ozs. being the first that ever was got in Ireland.

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