CAWDREY. 443 a brave stand for the rights and liberties of the subject; and it so much staggered the archbishop, that he afterwards declined the business of the commission, and sent most of his prisoners to the star-chamber. Mr. Cawdrey having endured these troubles for the space of five years, and being almost ruined ; the treasurer, his constant friend, compassionately feeling his manifold cala- mities, still warmly espoused his cause. He not only urged his diocesan, who had sequestered his living, and given it to his chaplain, to allow him some annual pension ; but requested that so excellent and useful a preacher might be again restored to his ministry ; in each of which, however, he most probably failed.. Mr. Cawdrey united with his brethren in subscribing the " Book of Discipline."t He was author of " A Treasurie or Store-house of Simi- lies, both Pleasaunt, Delightfull and Profitable for all Estates of Men in general], newly collected into Heades and Commonplaces," 1609. In the preface to the reader prefixed to this work, the author observes that he had begun another work, which he at first purposed to have united with it. This he calls "A Treatise of Definitions of the principal words, points, and matters that a preacher shall have occasion to speak of ;" which he promised, God sparing his life, to publish in a separate work, soon after the former ; but whether it ever came forth, or what other things be published, we have not been able to learn. In the above work, Mr. Cawdrey openly declares his sentiments on the necessity and importance of an exact christian discipline among the churches of Christ, and gives his opinion with great freedom concerning ignorant, idle and insufficient ministers. The minister, says he, who undertakes to feed the flock of Christ, by preaching and catechising, and who has no knowledge to perform this duty, or having sufficient knowledge, yet is nonresident, and absent from them, and thus suffereth the people to perish for want of knowledge, such a one before God, is a soul-murderer. Mr. Daniel Cawdrey, ejected in 1662 was his son.t Heylin's Hist. of Pres. p. 140, 147. Neal's Puritans, vol. i. p. 423. Paluier's Noncon. Mem. vol. p. 2T.
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