FEAKE. 309 following curious and amusing account of him : " This Master Feake, withinthis twelvemonth, was preacher in Lon- don, and hath preached many strange and odd things at Peter's in Cornhill, besides Wool-church, and other places : as, for separation from our assemblies, expressing many heterodox things about mixed communion at the Lord's supper, against maintenance of ministers by tithes ; and, in sermons and prayers, hath had many flings at the assembly ; but now is preacher in the town of Hertford, and in All-saints, the greatest parish and church of that town, being put into a sequestrated living by the power of some of the independents. As for his carriage at Hertford, where he hath preached since last January, it 'lath been as follows : His preaching and praying shewS him to be no friend to the assembly, nor to the directory ; he hath never used the Lord's prayer since he went thither, but bath preached against the use of it as a prayer. It is observed of him by understanding men; his auditors, that they never heard him appoint or sing a psalm ; he reads but one chapter, or a piece of a chapter, and hath not baptized any since his going. One of the committee, a' justice of peace, put up some articles against him at the assizes at Hertford, to both judges then on the bench. The first was this, ' That God would destroy not only unlawful government, but lawful government, not only the abuse, but the use of it; and as he had begun to destroy it in England, ,so would he, by raising combustions in the bowels of France and Spain ; and that he would destroy aristocracy in Holland, for tolerating arminianism.' Whenhe denied the words, one being present and asked, affirmed him to have preached thus; and there are found four others, understanding men and of good worth, whowill testify the same. When Master Feake explained himself before the judges, that there was in monarchy and aristocracy an enmity against Christ, which he would destroy ; and as he was preaching, some turbulent fellows and sectaries clambered up by he bench, and cried out, ' My lord, my lord, Mr, Pr. doth it in malice : we will maintain our minister with .our blood.' Whereupon the judge threw away the paper, and said he would hear no more of it, though he had before commanded Master Eldred to read openly all those heterodoxies. The Lord's day follow- ing Master Feake in the pulpit endeavoured to answer all the articles put up against him to the judges, in a great auditory."* Edwards's Gangrsana, part iii. p. SI, 147, 14L
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