DEERING. 193 prelate ; nor whether the good man ever procured- his restoration. Mr. Harvey appears to have written " A Treatise of the Church and Kingdom of Christ," a copy of which is still preserved, though most probably it was never published.* TheOxfordhistorian gives avery curious account of one Mr. Richard Harvey, who lived about the same time, but he does not appear to have been the same person.+ One Mr. Richard Harvey of Pembroke-hall, Cambridge, took his degrees in Arts in 1581 and 1585. This was probably the same person as that last mentioned4 EDWARD DEERING, B. D.-This learned and distin- guished puritan was descended from a very ancient and worthy family at Surrenden-Dering, in Kent ; and having been carefully brought up in religion, and the rudiments of sound learning, completed his education in Christ's college, Cambridge. Here he made amazing progress in valuable knowledge, and became an eminently popular preacher. He was fellow of the house, was chosen proctor in 1566, and Lady Margaret's preacher the year following.§ This, in- deed, was not sufficient to protect him from the fury and persecution of the prelates. In the year 157J, being cited before Archbishop Parker and other commissioners, he was charged with certain assertions, which, it is said, he maintained and subscribed before them. These assertions were the following : " That breaking the laws of civil government is, in its own nature, no sin, but only on account of scandal.-That Christ's descent into hell relates only to the force and efficacy of his passion ; but that neither his body, nor his soul, went to that place.--That it is lawful to take oaths, when the forms are written or printed, to determine thesense of the imposer; but to make use of the book, as a circumstance of solemnity, is a sacrilegious addition.-That the clerical garments, which are derived from popery, are full of offence, and appear to me directly against the truth."0 It does not appear, however, what punishment was inflicted upon him for these assertions. MS. Register, p.533'-534. t Mood's Athente Oxon. vol. i. p. 173, 174. t Baker's MS. Collec. vol. ii. p. 381. § MS. Chronology, vol. i. p. 202. (2.) g Strype's Parker, p. 32R--Baker's MS. Collee. vol. xxxvi. p. 337. VOL. I. 0
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