174 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. most excellent professor of divinity.. In the opinion of Fuller, hewas a man of great learning, a deep divine, and a rare example of moderation and self-denial.+ It is ob- served of Coverdale, Turner, and Whitehead, three worthy puritans, " That they were the most ancient preachers of the gospel, and themost ancient fathers of this our country ; and that from their pens, as well as their mouths, most of Queen Elizabeth's divines and bishops first received the light of the gospel."t Mr. Whitehead was author of " Lcctions and Homilies on St. Paul's Epistles," and pro- bably some other works. Mr. MILLAIN was fellow of Christ's college, Cam- bridge, and one of the preachers to the university. He maintained liberty of conscience, and publicly avowed his sentiments. Being thoroughly dissatisfied with the corrup- tions in the church, he openly declared his opinion ofthem, as things worthy of censure. In the year 1572, having delivered a sermon in St. Mary's church, he was convened before the vice-chancellor Dr. Hying, and the heads of colleges, when he was charged, with having delivered the following opinions :-1. " That the ordering and making of ministers as used in the church of England, is an horrible confusion, and contrary to the word of God.-2. That ignorant and unpreaching ministers arenoministers.- 3. That such as are not called by some particular congre- gation, are no ministers.-4. That able and sufficient ministers are rejected from the sacred function.-5. That the clergy of England deface and pull down the church, by maintainingboth adultery and idolatry.-6. That to com- mand saints' eves to be observed, is idolatry.-7. That to command saints' days to be kept as days of fasting, is abominable idolatry."-Whenhe was examined upon these points, he confessed the whole, declaring that what he had delivered was according to the word of God. Refusing, therefore, to revoke these dangerous errors, as they are called, he was expelled from his college, and driven from the university.§ WILLIAM I3oNnAiii was a zealous nonconformist, and a considerable sufferer under the oppressions of the perse. t. Wood's Athente Oxon. vol. i. p. 185, 136. Fuller's Worthies,part ii. p. 12. Strype's Oranmer, p. 674. Strype's Whitgift, p. 48, 49. Appen. p. 16.
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