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negociations to the king in person,
"while the
tongues and pens of others moved with precision
and effect all, whether speeches or sermons,
in one strain, a strain of strong condemnation
for those who were advocates of the lie-union
movement.
So, too, of the Jesuits. From the outset of
these negociations
for
peace,
the members of
that distinguished society had opposed it on all
hands and at every step. Father Leander s
letters
sufficiently indicate the difficulties he
himself had to contend against,
in inducing the
authorities at Rome to understand the existence
of a desire for peace on the part
of a consider
able section of the Church of " England. For
it was easy to point both to penal laws and cruel
persecutions to prove the contrary ; while the
timidity of some, the indifference of others, and
i/
the checks and counterchecks which were con
must have rendered it no
tinually cropping up,
easy task for those who were interested in its
promotion to make a clear case at Rome. Still
patient people, hopeful in faith and sincerity,
made the attempt ; and so merited for them
selves the promised blessing
of the peace
makers.
Had the general body of Roman Catholics,
who so
bravely clung to their ancient belief
been enabled to
ally themselves actively with
the learnedest and most farsighted members of