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Tracts of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury. Containing
Tracts of Mr Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury Containing Author:Thomas Hobbes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Part II. 'O U are welcome; yet if you had ftayed fomewhat longer,my memory would have been fo much the better provided for you. S. Nay, I pray you give me no... more »w what you have about you; for the reft I am content you take what time you pleafe. A. After the Parliament had made' the People believe, that the exafting of Ship- Money was unlawful, and the People thereby inclined to think it Tyrannical; in the next place, to increafe their difaffeandion to his Majefty, they accufed him of a pur- pofe, to introduce and authorize the Roman Religion in this Kingdom, than which nothing was more hateful to the People; not becaufe it was erroneous, (which they had neither Learning nor Judgment enough to examine) but becaufe they had beenufed to hear it inveighed againft in the Sermons H i and 100 Behemoth. Part II. and Difcourfes of the Preachers, whom they trufted to : and this was indeed the moft effeandual calumny to alienate the People's af- feftions from him, that could poflibly be invented. The colour they had for this flan- der was firft, that there was one Rtfetti Re- fident (at and a little before that time) from the Pope, with the Queen, and one Mr. George Con Secretary to the Cardinal Francifco Bar baring Nephew to Pope Vrlan the Stb, fent over under favour and prote- ftion of the Queen (as was conceive!) to draw as many Perfons of Quality about the Court, as he mould be able, to reconcile themfelves to the Church of Rome with what fuccefs I cannot tell; but it is likely he gained Tome, efpeciafiy of the weaker Sex, if I may fay they were gained by him, when, not his Arguments, but hope of favour from the Queen in all probability prevailed upon them. B. In fuch a conjuncture as that was it had perhaps been better they had not been fent. 4. There was exception alf...« less