DEEItING. O7 During Mr. Deering's suspension, the Bishop of London, out of good nature, it is said, interceded with the treasurer, to procure the consentof the council for his liberty to preach again at St. Paul's ; upon these conditions, that he taught sound doctrine, exhorted to virtue, dissuadedfrom vice, and meddlednot with matters of order and policy, but left them to the magistrate : and, he said, he believed Mr. Deering would be brought so to do. He thought these gentle deal- ings the best, for the present, and would quiet the minds of the people. He thought a soft plaster, in such a case, much better than a corrosive. But the treasurer, weare informed, disliked the advice, and sharply reproved the bishop for giving it. At length, however, he prevailed ; got Mr. Deering's suspension taken off, and, notwithstanding his puritanical answers to the above articles, procuredhis resto- ration tohis lecture.. The lords of the council having restored him to his beloved work of preaching, the archbishopand several of the bishops were much offended. Dr. Cox, bishop of Ely, wrote a warm letter to the treasurer, signifying his great disapprobationof the conduct of the council in restoring him, even as a man sound in the faith, and by their own authority, without consulting spiritual men, whose business it was to determine in such cases : and that they ought not to have determined a matter relating to religion without the assistance of those who belonged to the ecclesiasticalfunc- tion. Mr. Deering was, indeed, restored in consequence of the answers he gave to the articles, which articles, it seems, were collected out of Mr. Cartwright's book against Whit- gift. Though Bishop Cox said his answers were fond and untrue, the lords of the council thought otherwise, and were satisfied with them. The bishop urged, that in these mat- ters they ought to have consulted the judgment of learned divines, adding, 44 In all godly assemblies, priests have usually been called, as in parliaments and privy councils." And in the warmth of his zeal, he seemed inclined to move the queen's majesty to oppose and recall the decree of the council : but he trusted that the treasurer would, in his wisdomand godly zeal, undertake to do it himself.f Our author further adds, that when Mr. Deering and three of his brethrenwere first cited into the star-chamber, the Bishopof London remained silent, for which the queen afterwards bitterly rebuked him.I Strype's Parker, p.426. + Ibid. p. 426, 427. t Queen Elizabeth was a lady of a proud and imperious spirit; ant
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