in this our State-Physicians would refemble God, to cut off thofe from the Land who have distempered it. Melius eft ut pereat Unus quam Unitas.

He tells us, pag. 36, 37. of three forts of Perfons, with whom Peace is not to be made: Firft, Truce-breakers: 0 what deceitful Work bath our Parliament met with on the very nick of Treaties for Peace, &c. Secondly, Idolaters are not meet Perfons to have a Peace with, Jehofaphat was checked for having an Affinity with Ahab an Idolatrous King, because he loved him that bated the Lord, therefore wrath was upon him from the Lord: But Afa was commended because he removed Maachah from being Queen, because she was an Idolatre: I may say, what Jehu said to Joram, What Peace can there be fo long as the Whoredoms of Jezebel THE QUEEN are fo many, we may make Peace with Papists now, but who will give us affurance that they will keep their Covenants: Thirdly, men wholly under the guilt of much Innocent blood are not meet Persons to be at peace with, till all the guilt of blood be expiated

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and avenged, either by the Sword of the Law, or the Law of the sword, elfe a Peace can neither be fafe nor just, and pag.42. Are Peace and Truth the Ingredients which must healus ? O then dote not too much upon this Treaty of Peace, which is this day beginning: And again, Will the Blood-thirsty Rebels of Ireland, the Idolatrous Papifts of England, the Pompous Prelats, the rest of the corrupt Clergy, and the profaner fort of the Nation, who joyn hand in hand together: Are thefe likely to be Patrons of Truth ? Deceive not your felves, there is little likelihood of Peace with fuch: What I Said before, I fay again, Either they must grow better, or we must wax worse, before we can agree.

I should willingly have fuffered thefe Things to fleep, but that our Author forced me upon it, by infifting upon the Merits of Mr. Love, and Mr. Love himself in his Speech upon the Scaffold juftifies himself as to all that he had done in relation to the Pub. lick Differences; I bless my God, I am free from the Blood of all men, &c. I do declare that I dy with my Judgment

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Set against Malignity, I do hate both name and thing, I still retain AS VEHEMENT A DETESTATION of Malignant Intereft AS EVER I DID: And again, I dy cleaving to all thofe Oaths, Vows, Covenants, Proteftations, that were impofed by the Two Houses of Parliament, as owning them, and in dying with my Judgment for them. To the Proteftation, the Vow and Covenant, the Solemn League and Covenant.

This Author cannot deferve any way fo well of the Party he pleads for, as not to give us occafion to enquire into paft Matters: For whatever Inconveniencies may be expected from Comprehenfion or Toleration, by the nature of the things themfelves, they will be found to be very much afcertained and increased, if we confider the Perfons who do defire either of them: I fuppofe we fhall hear no more of the Merits of Love, and if this Gentleman doth think fit to change him for any other Instance: I shall advise that he would pitch upon fuch a Perfon as hath wrote nothing, nor been in any Publick Employment,

ployment, left otherwife he should force us upon thofe Enquiries which will be, it is to be doubted little for the credit of him whofe name is brought in Question, and which I shall take very little delight in.

The End.

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of the Life and Death of the Holy Jefus, as also, The Lives, Acts, and Martyrdoms of his Apoftles. In two Parts, the first Part containing the Life of Chrift, Written by Jeremy Taylor, late Bishop of Down and Connor, The fecond, containing the Lives of the Apoftles, by William Cave, D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to His Majefty.

The Second Part of the Practical Chriftian, confifting of Meditations and Pfalms, ilJuftrated with Notes, or Paraphrafed; relating to the Hours of Prayer, the ordinary Actions of Day and Night, and feveral Difpofitions of Men. By R. Sherlock, D. D. Rector of Winwick.

A Serious and Compaffionate Enquiry into the Caufes of the prefent Neglect and Cortempt of the Proteftant Religion and Church of England, &c., The Third Edition.

A Collection of feverál Treatifes concerning the Reasons and Occafions of the Penal Laws. Viz. I. The Execution of Juftice in England, not for Religion, but for Treafon : written by the Lord Treafurcr Burleigh 17 Dec. 1583. II. Important Confiderations, by the Secular Friests: Printed 4. D. 1601. III.The Jefuits Reafons Unreasonable: 1662.

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