We boaft our light; but if we look not wifely on the Sun itself, it fmites us into darknes. Who can difcern thofe planets that are oft Combuft, and those ftars of brightest magnitude that rife and fet with the Sun, untill the oppofite motion of their orbs bring them to fuch a place in the firmament, where they may be feen evning or morning. The light which we have gain'd, was giv`n us, not to be ever ftaring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking of a Prieft, the unmitring of a Bifhop, and the removing him from off the Presbyterian shoulders that will make us a happy Nation, no, if other things as great in the Church, and in the rule

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of life both economicall and politicall be not lookt into and reform'd, we have lookt fo long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin hath beacon'd up to us, that we are stark blind. There be who perpetually complain of fchifms and fects, and make it fuch a calamity that any man diffents from their maxims. 'Tis their own pride and ignorance which causes the disturbing, who neither will hear with meeknes, nor can convince, yet all must be fuppreft which is not found in their Syntagma. They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite thofe diffevered peeces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth. To be ftill fearching what we

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know not, by what we know, ftill clofing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportionall) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetick, and makes up the best harmony in a Church; not the forc❜t and outward union of cold, and neutrall, and inwardly divided minds.

Lords and Commons of England, confider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours: a Nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit, acute to invent, futtle and finewy to difcours, not beneath the reach of any point the higheft that human capacity can foar to. Therefore the ftudies of learning in her deepest

deepest Sciences have bin fo ancient, and fo eminent among us, that Writers of good antiquity, and ableft judgement have bin perfwaded that ev'n the school of Pythagoras, and the Perfian wifdom took beginning from the old Philosophy of this Iland. And that wife and civill Roman, Julius Agricola, who govern'd once here for Cafar, preferr'd the naturall wits of Britain, before the labour'd ftudies of the French. Nor is it for no

thing that the grave and frugal Tranfilvanian fends out yearly from as farre as the mountanous borders of Ruffia, and beyond the Hercynian wildernes, not their youth, but their stay'd men, to learn our language, and our theologic arts. Yet that which is above all this, the favour

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and the love of heav'n we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us. Why elfe was this nation chos'n before any other, that out of her as out of Sion fhould be proclaim'd and founded forth the first tidings and trumpet of Reformation to all Europ. And had it not bin the obftinat perverfnes of our Prelats against the divine and admirable spirit. of Wicklef, to fuppreffe him as a fchifmatic and innovator, perhaps neither the Bohemian Huffe and Jerom, no nor the name of Luther, or of Calvin, had bin ever known: the glory of reforming all our neighbours had bin completely ours. But now, as our obdurat Clergy have with violence demean'd the matter,

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