that our Protestant Doctrine teaches Murder; or that acting against conscience for humane advantage is warrantable, though the opinion of so many Prelates is, comparatively more considerable to the English Church, than a thousand to the Catholick. It is truely very much he should not make the inference he talks of, for it would be in all points as good as any he hath hitherto produced: but we must follow him in his own way. Where, first, upon hearing this Story as he tells it, one would think that a Synod of all the Bishops of the three Kingdoms had been convened, when alass the total sum amounted but to five persons in all; and the question was not what our Author falsly sets it: But to use Mr. H. L' Estrange his words (which generally the Writers of K. Charles I. life, exactly accord with.Ham. L' E∣strange, p. 265. &c. Perench. p. 25.) The Bi∣shops were only to resolve, whether the King might, his Conscience entire, pass the Bill against the Earl. The Bishops determine thus, That the matters of Fact and Law, were to stand apart; for the first, his Majesties presence at all the proceedings might ena∣ble him to pass his judgment: and if his judgment informed him that the Earl was guiltless, he might not in conscience condemn him. For the last being matter of Law, what was Treason, what not, the Judges they said were obliged by their Oaths to direct him. This was the total result of their joint opinions. There was indeed a Writing put into his Majesties hand by the Bishop of Lincoln, but what the contents thereof were, he never imparted to his other associates.And now let the World judge, if all the Bishops of England, except one, &c. teach Murder to be lawful, or that acting against Conscience for humane advantage was war∣rantable: when of the whole Order there was but one 0