3I4 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. opinions, they were so far excusable to the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, that he warmly espoused their cause, andwrote a letter to the archbishop in their favour. In all proba- bility, says Mr. Toplady, Burleigh's humane application to the primate, in behalf of these theological delinquents, procured them a gaol-delivery, and set the free-will men corporally free. This he conjectures from the letter ofthanks, which Mr. Glover afterwards wrote to the treasurer. Mr. Glover, says he, lays all the cause of his and his brethren's imprisonment, on their dissenting from Luther's doctrine of justification without works, and from Calvin's doctrine of unconditional predestination ; and loudly complains of the t' iniquity and tyranny" of their prosecutors: which included a tacit fling at the archbishop himself. Had they not just cause to complain both of iniquity and tyranny ? And was not the archbishop the very person who exercised this cruel oppression ? Without approving of their senti,,' merits, it may be asked, what greater right had he to cast them into prison, merely for difference of religious opinions, than they had to cast him into prison, for the same cause ? His lordship having the sword in his own hands, will afford no satisfactory answer to this question. But our author further observes, 46 the bishops had just as much regard for the free-will men, as St. Paul had for the viper he shook into the fire."+ This representation, which contains too much truth, will remain a stigma upon their character, and a reproach to their memory, as long as men are disposed to examine the impartial records of history. JOHN WALWARD, D. D.-He was professor of divinity at Oxford, and a man of great learning, but involved in much trouble for nonconformity. He was summoned before the high commission, April 7, 1586, and appeared before Archbishop Whitgift, Bishop Aylmer, the Bishops of Winchester and Sarum, and other commissioners, at. Lambeth. And for having taught, that the order of the Jewish synagogue and eldership, was adopted into the christian church, by Jesus Christ and his apostles ; and asserting that the same was designed as a perpetual modal of church government, he was enjoined a public recanta- tion, and suspended from his public exercises in the univer- sity, till it should be performed. As the whole of this Strype's Annals, vol. iii. p. 431. + Toplady's Historic Proof, vol. ii. p. 201, 202.
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