MARSHALL. 245 in this matter, and it will tell you, that if all these new designs should succeed to your wish, and there shOuld happen to be a change of government, you would think yourselves wronged if you should not be acknowledged very effectual instruments in that change. These things therefore being so, you cannot accuse of uncharitablenegS those who think these designs not only unjust, but ruinous both to justice and religion, if they attribute it to God's Mercy to them, and vengeance on you, if he take such a fire-brand as you out of the world.' While this anonymous calumniator thus reproaches Mr. Marshall for his zeal in the cause of the parliament, he is extremely lavish in the dignified compliments con- ferred upon his majesty, styling him " God's anointed, and a most righteous christian king." Wood says, "that, upon the approach of the troublesome times in 1640, Mr. Mar= shall, Mr. Calamy, Dr. Burgess, and some others, first whispered in their conventicles, then openly preached, that for the cause of religion it was lawful for subjects to take up; arms against the king."+ " As to Mr. Marshall," 'sayS Dr. Calamy, " he was an active Man, and encouraged taking up arms for securing the constitution, when it ap- peared not only to him and his brethren, but to a number of as worthy gentlemen as ever sat in St. Stephen's chapel, to be in no small danger ; yet I am not aware that he can be justly charged with any concurrence in those thing's which afterwards overthrew the constitution, and tended to con- fusion. He wrotea defence of the side which he took in our civil broils, and I cannot hear that it was ever answered."t Mr. Marshall, at the same time, took an active part in . the controversy concerning church government. The cele- brated Bishop fta 11 having published his work in defence of episcopacy and the liturgy, called, An Humble Remon- strance to the high Court of Parliament," 1640, he united with several of his brethren in writing the famous book, entitled, "An Answer to a Book, entituled, ' An Humble Remonstrance;' in which the Original of Liturgy and Episcopacy is discussed, and Queries propounded concern- ing both. The Parity of Bishops and Presbyters in Scripture demonstrated ; the Occasion of their Imparities in Anti, quity discovered ; the Disparity of the ancient and our Modern Bishops manifested ; the Antiquity of Ruling Letter of Advice, p. 1, 2. + Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. ii. p. 23.6, 236. Calamy's Contin. vol. ii. p. 727.
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