360 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. confinement some time. The mild archbishop informed the secretary how he had dealt with him, and that he could not have treated him otherwise, considering his behaviour, and especially his saying, that he would not suffer the wolf to come to his flock. By the wolf, Mr. Crowley appears to have meant a minister in a surplice ; and this expression seems to have been a very material part of the crime for which he was censured. The Lord's day following his deprivation and commitment, the archbishop sent Mr. Bickley, his chaplain, to preach in his place. In the year 1589, Mr. Crowley was very diligent in dis- putingwith certain popish priests, confined in the Tower, under sentence of death, With one of them, named Kirby, he took much pains, and laboured to the utmost of his power, to convince him of his error, in maintaining the lawfulness of the pope's deposing princes. He attended them to the place of execution, where he used all his endea- vours to convinceKirby of the absurdity of those principles for which he was about to suffer. He urged from Rom. xiii. and John xix., that, as princes receive their authority from God alone, they could not bedeposed by any other power. When. Kirby asked whether a prince guilty of turcism, atheism, or infidelity, might not be deposed it is said, that Mr. Crowley and the rest of the ministers answered very learnedly in the negative. On this occasion, our divine observed, a That ifa prince fall into any such errors, he is indeed punishable. But by whom ? Not by any earthly prince ; but by that heavenly prince, whogave him his authority ; and who, seeing him abuse it, will, in justice, correct him for so doing.". Mr. Crowleywas a manof a most holy and exemplary life, a pious, learned, and laborious preacher, and much beloved by his people.+ Mr. Strype denominates him a learned and zealous man, possessing great parts and eminent piety.t Wood says, that he lived .to a considerable age, and spent his life chiefly in labouring to propagate and settle the protestant religion.§ He was a most learned and laborious writer, as appears from his numerous works, many of which were written against the errors of popery. He died June 18, 1588, and his remains were interred in the chancel of St. Giles's church, where he had been vicar. The following. * Strype's Parker, p.219. + MS. penes me. Strype's Annals, vol. i. n. 156.-Life of Parker, p. 219. Wood's Athenm Oxon. vol. i. p. 191.
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