Excerpt from A Letter to Richard Lord Bishop of Landaff: On the Subject of His Lordship's Letter to the Late Archbishop of Canterbury It with the fame degree of perfpicuity P But this kind of reafoning will not impofe upon your fagacity; you fufpeé'ted that the judgement of your brethren would not be with you in this propofal, elfe you would not have excluded them from their fbare of credit in the meafure; neither would you have left the grace of doing that with their concurrence previoufly obtained, which ul timately cannot be done without it. This. Would at leali have given them an Opportu nity of acceding with dignity to a felf-de nying plan, and not compelling tlaenz to come in by the terrors of the laity and the invec tives of the profs. If they had agreed with you in the great outline of the reform, they might pofiibly have done fome little unim portant underwork in the modification of it for parliament; in the wording and forma tron 5 tion ofa bill perhaps they might, by them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.