270 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. Hopk. If your lordship will deal thus hardly with us, we 'must give up our places. A. If you do give them up, I can furnish them with as sufficient men as you are, and yet conformable. B. Rochester. There are many learned men who are now in want of livings. These will fill up their places. A. You of Sussex have been accounted very disorderly and contentious ; and her majesty hath been informed of you ; and I mean to proceed strictly with you. U. My lord, the ministers of Sussex have been as well ordered as any in the kingdom, until one Shales came among them, and broached certain points of popery and heresy, which bath been the cause of all those troubles. A. It would have been a wonder, if you had not been quiet, seeing you have all done as you pleased, without the least controul : the devil will be quiet so long. Why do you not accuse the man ? and you shall see how I will deal with him. B. Roches. What were his points of popery and heresy ? U. My lord hath been informedof these things already. A. .I remember- you found fault yesterday with holy- days. B. Havewe not as good reason to maintain the holy-days established by law, as you have to make them when you please ? Hopk. We make no holy-days. B. What do you else, when you call the people together unto sermons on working-days? Hopk. When we have sermons, the people go to work before sermon, and return to work after sermon, as on other days : but to do this on the holy-days, they might be pre sented and punished, as bath been lately witnessed. A. I see whence you have most of your doubts. Mr. Cartwright and I might have been better employed, espe- cially he, who began the contest.. If you have anymore doubts, propose them now, seeing there are somany of the bishops to answer them. H. In the rubric before confirmation, salvation is ascribed to baptism. For whosoever is baptized, is said to be undoubtedly saved. A. Is there any such thing in the book ? H. Yes, my lord, those are thewords. This statement, is incorrect. Mr. Cartwright did not begin the con- test; but 'VVhitgift himself engaged first in the controversy.-See Art. Cartwright.
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