66 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. condemned, and executed ; and so suffered martyrdom for the name of Christ. And more particularly, that he was adjudged by Sir John Popham, and the rest of the judges, on the 25th of the fifth month, and executed at St. Thomas Waterings, near London, the 29th of the same, in the year 1593. That he was, not brought to execution imme- diately, as most persons expected ;; but; when they lead looked for it, he was taken while he was at dinner, and carried secretly to his execution, and hastily bereaved of his life, without being suffered to make a declaration of his faith towards God, or his allegiance to the queen, though hevery much desired it." And in the postscript, it isadded, " That he was apprehended, adjudged, and executed for writing the truth of Christ, whatever other things were pretended against him.". He was undoubtedly a man of great learning and piety; but these excellent qualifications could make no atonement to the prelates for his zeal in the cause of nonconformity, and for expressing his disapproba- tion of the constitution and corruptions of theestablished churth. " By his death, with the condemnation of John Udal and Henry Barrow," says the Oxford historian, " the neck of the plots of the fiery nonconformists was broken, and their brags were turned into prayers and tears, as the onlymeans for christian subjects."+ Another author of the same spirit, says, " The pressing of the law thus close, struck terror into the party, and made the dissenters of all sorts, less enterprizing against the government."l These, surely, are pitiful triumphs amongprofessed protestants ! Mr. Penry was author of several learned pieces on Con- troversy, particularly against Dr. Some. In 'one of them he endeavours to prove " that there is no church at all in popery, and that all popish priests are out of the church," by a direct appeal to the conduct of all protestants in their separation from the church of Rome. " If there be a church in popery, or if all popish priests be not out of the church," says he, " then those magistrates and their subjects who have separated from the Romish religion, to say the least, are schismatics. It is schism to make this separation from the church. We may detest the corruptions thereof; but we ought notto make such separation from the church, unless we would be accounted schismatics. But those magistrates and their people who made this separation Heylin's Hist. of Pres. p. 325, 326. -I- Wood's Athens Oxon. vol. i, p. 229. Collier's &el. Hist. vol. ii, p. 640,
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