[199] The latitudinarian, or moderate clergy above-mentioned, and particularly Stillingfleet.
[202] Stillingfleet's Vindication, which contains the imputations complained of by Dryden, bears this licence: "Imprimatur, Henricus Maurice Rmo. P. D. Wilhelmo Archiep. Cant. a sacris. January 10, 1686."
[203] In these, and in the following beautiful lines, the poet, who had complained of Stillingfleet's having charged him with atheism, expresses his resolution to submit to this reproach with Christian meekness, and without retaliation.
[204] Stillingfleet. See [Note XI.]
[206] See Introduction, p. [114;] also Note VIII.
[207] The penal laws, though suspended by the king's Declaration of Indulgence, were not thereby abrogated.