Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

1636 and 1866. 129
But it was reserved for a bishop of tlie suc
ceeding reien, who saw at a glance that isolation
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was weakness and national insularity nncatholic,
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to stem the tide of a false
policy, destroy
a delusive hope, and lay the foundation of
future restoration and Re-union for the common
advantage of all. Archbishop Laud s com
munications with Davenport and Leander*
are frequently referred to in the State Papers,
while the interest that was taken in the great
subject of Corporate Re-union by other bishops,
such as Montague and Goodman, prove that a
considerable section of the English people were
neither unrepresented, in their peaceful desires,
by those who ruled over them in a spiritual
capacity, nor indifferent to the growing dangers
of rebellion and anarchy which could not be
ignored.
And the same was the case with the Kino- o
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himself : His Majesty, writes Sir F. Cottington
to a Roman Catholic correspondent at
Paris,
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hath frequently expressed himself with
satisfaction to the [Anglican] bishops that men
on both sides have begun to reckon up the evils
of religious divisions ; and is himself heartily
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desirous of not only promoting an impartial
toleration for the Catholics, but of seeking to
* Prynne and other Puritans constantly referred to the
social intercommunion between Anglican and Eoman
Catholics vrith excessive dislike.
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