ABSTRACT
GEntlemen, Though you have a New Name, yet I hope you are not all New Members, but most of you I hope, are Sons of that Blessed Church of England, that has been always unstain’d for Loyalty: And now it is the Wisdom of God to try Loyalty by Popery, I hope the Lord will give you such Wisdom to Distinguish between Loyalty and Popery, that you may retain your Loyalty to the End; and I doubt not but You will obtain a Crown of Reward: And though there may be many things said against the King, yet do by him as you would have God do by you, and consider that he has been misted by strangers, as many Men has been misled by strange women, yet they are not willing their Wivet should turn them out of doors and take other Husbands, tho’ they might do it by the Law, yet People would think such to be Bad Women: But I consider that He was Son to that Thus Prince whom spite and malice slew, and Brother to my Precious Sovereign under whose Wings you had Peace and Plenty, and for their Sakes as well as for his Own, I love him although I never lov’d Popery; and therefore I made Application to the King from Time to Time, to forbear Promoting it, for I lov’d the King and Kingdoms Peace. But since it is so, I be beech Your Honours, not to add greater Sins to lesser; least at last you be without Hope:
