CA 11,TWRIGIIT. 149 a business shall be undertaken against Satan's champions. " We stir you up to fight the battles of, the Lord, where " the victory is certain, and which the triumph and applause " of angels will ensue. Our prayers shall never be wanting " to you. Christ, without doubt, whose cause you defend, " will be present with you. The Lord Jesus much " increase your courage and strength, and keep you, very " long in safety for his church's good.". From all these solicitations, Mr. Cartwright was at length induced to undertake the laudable and arduouswork ; and having once entered upon it, he spared no pains to carry it on to perfection. But, marvellous as it will appear to all posterity, Archbishop Whitgift, by his own sovereign, authority, forbade him to proceed.t Mr. Cartwright meekly obeyed the tyrannical prohibition. Thebook was left unfinished, to the unspeakable regret of the learned world, but to the lasting reproach of the archbishop, and was not published till the year 1618. Fuller says, Mr. Cartwright perfected the work to the seventeenth chapter of Revelation. But the excellent performance being laid aside many years,-became in part mouse eaten ; and was not published till theAbove year. Notwithstanding these defects, says he, it is so complete a refutation, that the Rhemists durst never answer it.f Mr. Cartwright was severely persecuted on account of his nonconformity. Although his hospital at Warwick was exempt from the jurisdiction of the prelates, their out- stretched and tyrannical power would not suffer bim to enjoy peace. He was accused to Bishop Freke Of Wor- cester, a zealous advocate for the church,§ and summoned to appear in the consistory at Worcester, to answer such charges as were alleged against him. Upon his appearance before his lordship and others, he was addressed as follows : -"Mr. Cartwright, you are here accused of disturbing the peace and quietness of the church, by innovations, and obtruding fancies and devices of your own or others. You have brought over with you the dregs of Geneva, whereby you would instil into the minds of the queen's subjects, that` your doctrine is the only truth to be embraced and #t This letter was subscribed by Roger Goad, William Whitaker, Thomas Crook, John Ireton, William Fulke, John Field, Nicholas Crane, Giles Saintler, Richard Gardiner, William Charlie, and others, celebrated for their learning and piety.-Clark's Lives, p. 20.-Letter prefixed to - cartwright's Refutation. " + Strype's Whitgift, p. 253, 251. t Church Hist. b. ix. p. 171, 17g. wood's Athena Oxon. tic', t., p.
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