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PREFACE. 



that affifted in this Reforma- 

 tion, did not (as Sir Henry 

 Wotton faid wifely) think the 

 farther they went from the 

 Church of Rome, the nearer 

 they got to heaven. 



p. 23. 



To make the Women, the 

 Shop-keepers, and the mid- 

 dle-witted People . . . lefs 

 bufie, and more humble and 

 lowly in their own eyes, and 

 to think thattheyare neither 

 called, nor are fit to meddle 

 with, and judge of the moft 

 hidden and myfterious points 

 in Z)/Vi>//y, and Government 

 of the Church and State. 



P. 36. 



I defire you to look back 

 with me to the beginning of 

 the late Long Parliament 

 1640, at which time we 

 were the quieteft and happieft 

 people in the Chriftian World. 



Henry Wotton, " Take heed 

 of thinking the farther you go 

 from the Church of Rome, 

 the nearer you are to God." 



Life of Richard Hooker. 



Here the very women and 

 Ihopkeepers were able tojudge 

 of predeftination, and deter- 

 mine what laws were fit to 

 be obeyed or abolifhed. 



Life of Sanderfon. 

 Some years before the un- 

 happy Long Parliament, this 

 nation being then happy and 

 in peace. 



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