HUMPHREY. 369 "themajesty of the glorious gospel, the equity of the cause, " the small number of workmen, the greatness of the " harvest, the multitude of tares, the grievousness of the punishment, the lightness of the fault, the sighs of the " good, the triumphs of the wicked, and the mischiefs of " the times.". By using these urgent endeavours, and having many friends at court, he, at length, obtained a connivance and a toleration. Dr. Humphrey having procured his liberty, the Bishop of Winchester presented to him a small living, in the diocese of Salisbury, but Bishop Jewel, his professed friend, and intimate acquaintance, refused to admit him ; and protested he never would admit him, till he obtained some good assurance of his conformity.+ Jewel's great objection against admitting him, was his nonconformity ; upon which, said he, " God is not the author of confusion, but of peace and diversity in the worship of God, is deformity, and a sufficient cause of deprivation." Dr. Humphrey, in a letter to the bishop, dated December 20, 1565, replied, " That his lordship's objectionhad but little ground to rest upon.-That he never was the author of confusion.-That he had ever lived in peace and concord with his brethren, and in due obedience to his superiors, and, by the grace of God, was still resolved so to do.- And that if diversity in outward ceremonies be deformity, if it be any confusion, if it be a sufficient cause of depri- vation, if conformity be a necessary part of the ministry ; if all this came not from the pope," said he, " and if it existed before popery, then I am much deceived. But whatever he called it, whether order or disorder, it was of very little consequence. He assured his lordship, that he did not mean to innovate, nor to violate their ecclesiastical ordinances." Though he had obtained the patronage of his grace of Winchester, and the favour of the archbishop, and the benefice was only very small, Jewel seems to have remained inflexible ;I for it does not appear that he was admitted.5 Baker's MS. Collec. vol. vi. p. 353, 354. -I 'MS. Register, p. 873.-Strype's Annals, vol. i. p. 421. Strype's Parker, p. 185, 186. Though Bishop Jewel was a zealous churchman, be was of a different spirit from many of his brethren. In a letter dated May 22, 1559, he wrote, " that the Queen (Elizabeth) refused to be called Head of the Church; and adds, that title could not be justly given to any mortal, it being due only to Christ; and that such titles had been so much abused by antichrist, that they ought not to be any longer continued."-Simpson's Plea for Religion, p. 146. Edit, 1810. VoL. I. 2 B
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