r. S8 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. worship of God, and the government of the church ; sb that no man may add unto it, nor diminish from it. Q. What say you of the prince's supremacy ? Is her majesty supreme head of the church, in all causes, as well ecclesiastical, as civil ? G. She is supreme magistrate over all persons, to punish the evil, and defend the good. Q. Is she over all causes? G. No. Christ is the only head of his church; and his laws may'na man alter. Q. But the pope giveth this to princes, doth he not ? G. No, he doth not. He setteth himself above princes, and exempteth his priesthood from the magistrate's sword. Q. What say you of the oath of supremacy ? Doyou approve of it ? G. If these ecclesiastical orders mean such as are agree- able to the scriptures, I do. For I deny all foreign power. Q. It means the order and government, with all the.laws in the church, as it is now established. G. Then I will not answer to approve of it.. From the above examination, the reader will clearly see, that Mr. Greenwood's judges designed to make him accuse himself. Though he positively refused to take the oath ex officio, they certainly intended to make him an offender by what they could force from his own mouth. Cruel Inquisitors ! What would they have thought, if they them- selves had been treated thus, in the bloody days of Queen Mary ? Such shocking barbarities will be a stigma upon the ecclesiastical rulers of this protestant country, to the latest posterity. At the close of the above examination, Mr. Greenwood was carried back to prison, where he remained a long time under close confinement. Here he had many companions in bondage, as appears from a paper now before me, entitled, 44 The names of sundry faithful Christians imprisoned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, for the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." In this paper it is observed, that Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Barrow hadbeen imprisoned thirty weeks in the Clink, for reading a portion of scripture in a friend's house on the Lord's day, but were removed by an habeas corpus to the Fleet, where they lay upon an execution of two hundred and sixty pounds Examinations of Barrow, Greenwood, and Penry, p. 42-25.
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