A letter to the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Harley, by Dr. Browne : occasion'd by his late commitment to New-Gate. Together with his interpretation of that paper, called, the country parson's advice to my Lord keeper, laid to his charge. Answer'd paragraph by paragraph.

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Credit: A letter to the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Harley, by Dr. Browne : occasion'd by his late commitment to New-Gate. Together with his interpretation of that paper, called, the country parson's advice to my Lord keeper, laid to his charge. Answer'd paragraph by paragraph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thmk his Zeal to the Churchy wasfufficiently fiiown in dppofmg the Occafional Bill ^ fo that I find in this, nei¬ ther Flattery nor Reproach. Anfw. But for Whartons Zeal for Church and Loyalty, if you do not infinuate, yet you as drongly and privately fugged the contrary j and tho* you do not directly accufe him of Fa&ion or Rebellion ; yet you fhrewdiy hint that his Zeal in oppoting the Occafional Sill was fo conspicuous, that you tacitly both hatter and Reproach him: Since the Bill for the Security of the Siiblilli d Church was, (as the mod of the Lords faid) abfolutely necelfary, tho’not at thisjun&ure. Like Sarum, 1 would have thee love the Churchy It is ftrange to me, that it fhould appear monftrous Advice to a Lord Keeper, to recommend to his Exam¬ ple the Pattern of a Biftiop of the Church of England^ who perhaps has done it more Service in the Efteem of fome Men, than all his Brethren befide, tho* many of them are Men of great Learning as well as Integrity. He [corns to leave his Mother in the lurch, I think this cannot be admitted as an Irony, becaufe his Lordfliip has appear’d very forward in the Church’s Vindication, and has taken great pains in explaining her Nme and thirty Ankles, which are the only effential Diftni£Hons betwixt us, and other Proteftant Churches * therefore I can difcover no grounds at all for a mal-un- derilanding in this particular, upon the Bifh. of Salisbury Anfvo. And as for Samrris loving the Church, few Men of Letters can be ignorant of his writing and defending the Hidory of the Reformation, and explaining the Articles, which are the only effential Liguments a- roong us Proteftants ; nay, by the Chymical Oyl of his voluble Tongue, he has made them fo gentle and ealie, that if our dubborn Confciences cannot come up to the Articles, they by Authority have leave occafional- ly to come to, and fuppleour brawny Confciences: And what Sir, if he like a true Fiflherman, row one way, and look another, never fear that he will leave his Mother in the Lurch, feeing fifhing in his See, is like to hold good for his Days } and what if he be fqueamifh inlthc outward Habits, and Rites aiid Ceremonies, impofed by Men, and I wou’d fird wear Scotch in Head of Lawn Sleeves, that is no dimunition of his Honour or Dignity. For the well governing your Family. 'Let Fious Haverlham thy Fattern be. How far my Lord Haverjham’s piety extends, I cm no more determine, than I can, how well he governs hit
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