312 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. Whitgift, Bishop Cooper of Winchester, Bishop Piers of Salisbury, and other high commissioners. When he was called before their lordships, and the charges alleged against him had been read, the reverend archbishop thus addressed him :-" You have spoken against the ecclesiastical state and governors, as confirmed and established by the laws of this land. You have inveighed against the swelling titles of bishops and archbishops. You are full of pride and arro- gancy, and the spirit of pride hath possessed you. And you have preached against the Bishop of Winchester, by which you have discouraged men from doing good to the church." Then said the Bishop of Winchester, " If you had read any of the ancient fathers, or ecclesiastical histories, you could not have been ignorant, that the office of archbishops was from the time of the apostles, though the name be not found in the scriptures. Other churches do not condemn ours, as we do not theirs. This discipline which you dream of, may peradventure be convenient for Geneva, or some such free city, which bath half a dozen villages joining to it; but not for a kingdom. You are a child, yea, ababe." Mr. Gellibrand, craving leave to answer for himself, re- plied to these accusations, and said, " Concerning preaching against the Bishop of Winchester, I am guiltless. I was not present at. his sermon, nor did I hear of his sermon till after I had preached, according to my oath already taken." And being charged with speaking against the consecration of bishops and archbishops, he replied, " My words were uttered simply as the occasion offered from a note of Beza on Heb. ii. 10. And concerning my exhortation to those who suffer persecution for the sake of Christ, it was neces- sarily deduced from my text, in which the sufferings of christians are called the sufferings of Christ." Then said Dr. Cosin, " Such ifs are intolerable under the government of so gracious a prince. And it is a most grievous thing that you have made discipline a part of the gospel." The archbishop next charged him with having made a comparisonbetweenJesuits, andnonresidents, saying, "You make nonresidents worse than Jesuits, and in this com- parison there is neither truth, nor charity, nor honesty, nor christianity. I myself have been one of those whom you call nonresidents, and have done more good by preaching, partly in my own cure, and partly in other mens', than you will do as long as you live. The church bath not been built by you, nor such as you ; but by those whom you
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