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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER VIII
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The old Exclusionist took the old Abhorrer by the hand.
Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Independents, Baptists, forgot their long feuds, and remembered only their common Protestantism and their common danger.

Divines bred in the school of Laud talked loudly, not only of toleration, but of comprehension.

The Archbishop soon after his acquittal put forth a pastoral letter which is one of the most remarkable compositions of that age.

He had, from his youth up, been at war with the Nonconformists, and had repeatedly assailed them with unjust and unchristian asperity.

His principal work was a hideous caricature of the Calvinistic theology.


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