450 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. refused to observesuch order as was alreadytaken, or should be hereafter taken, he should be bound, with one surety in a bond of forty pounds, to appear before her majesty's high commissioners, April 30th. He was, therefore, obliged to enter into bonds, and was sent to the high commission, when he made his submission, and confessed his oversight. He was then dismissed, sent back to Cambridge, and re- ferred to the vice-chancellor's wisdom, to take such further order with him as he should think proper. But the vice- chancellor and heads would not release him without a formal recantation, after which he was absolved, and re- stored in all respects to his former situation. His recanta- tion was as follows : " Whereas, in a sermon made by me in this place, the " 30th day of January last past, I was understood and " taken to have published and maintained certain points of " doctrine very erroneous, and other speeches of reproof " very scandalous to the church of England, and greatly " offensive to the congftation then assembled, namely : That the use of humanity, human arts, and profane " authors, in sermons, was and is altogether unprofitable " andunlawful.--. That not the tenth part of the ministers " of this our church of England are able ministers or " preachers, but dumb clogs.--.3. That a curate, being no " preacher, is no minister, nor doth he edify, any more cc than a boy of eight years old may do.-4. That Papists " and Lutherans in Cambridge are lately reconciledand dis- " missed ; for which the university doth hear ill abroad.' " In all which particulars, my mind and meaning was and " is so far different from the sense implied in these words, " that I had no suspicion of any offence thereby given or taken.". It does not appear whether Mr. Rudd made the above revocation publicly in the pulpit, or only subscribed it with his hand. Upon his, release from these troubles, it appears that he left the university ; and about the same time he became minister of Sheephall in Hertfordshire, where he continued a faithful and usefUl preacher to the end ofhis days. At his death his remains were interred in the chancel of his own church, and over his grave the following plain monumental inscription was erected to his memory : Baker's It18. Collec. vol. vi. p. 188, 189.
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