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_. ... VL GREAT KINGS AND RISHOrs ;o; IMS .
Spottiswoode) and Armagh (Usher), and the treatises of
Bishops Thomas Morton, John Davenant and Joseph
Hall, which he had reprinted at Amsterdam, together with
a fourth by some unnamed Gallican pastors.
48
He had un
fortunately not taken the opportunity of procuring a letter
from Gustavus Adolphus, but he was well known to the
great chancellor. Axel Oxenstierna, although the latter
treated him with a good deal of caution. He came
certainly under much better auspices and on a more
prudent mission than his countryman, John Forbes.
You will understand that his connection with my pre
decessor. Bishop Davenant, who left a considerable mark
upon the diocese of Salisbury, is naturally peculiarly in
teresting to myself. 1 may be excused if I take his opinion
as a specimen of the way in which well-informed and liberal
minded Englishmen approached the great subject.
Davenant had attended the Synod of Dort in 1618 in order
to watch the proceedings in the interests of our Church,
and he was familiar with the internal divisions of the
Netherlands. He naturally attached modi importance to
them, as well as to the larger divisions between the
"
Saxon "
and "
Helvetian
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