ADDENDA. 525 lordship said, " That this was catechizing sermon-wise, and AS BAD AS PREACHING." He also charged them, " That they should not ask any other questions, nor receive any other answers from the people, than those contained in the Book of Common Prayer." Those who refused to obey his lordship were convened before him, and punished for their disobedience ; among whom was Mr. Barret, who, as the reward of his transgression, was commanded to do penance" MR. SALISBURY was a pious and zealous divine, and an avowed enemy to popery and arminianism. In the warmth of his zeal for the welfare of Zion, in his sermon on Matt. xxiv. 6., he made use of the following expressions :-" How many thousands have made shipwreck of faith and a good conscience, renounced our true church, stept aside to armi- nianism, and from thence, being the widest gate open to Rome, relapsed to popery ! Thus are we scattered in our Jacob, and divided in our Israel. The Low Countries not long since, if not still, sighed as deeply, and mourned as strongly, finding themselves overgrown with arminianism. And what a faction is likely to be in our deplorable England, between popery and arminianism together, except God be more merciful, and our state more vigilantand mindful ! We shall see sooner than tell, and feel sooner than see."-For only using these expressions, the good man was convened before Archbishop Laud, and endured other troubles.t MR. JEPPRYES was some time preacher in the diocese of Bristol, but driven from his place by the oppressions of the times. Archbishop Laud gives the following account of him :-" In the diocese of Bristol, in 1638, the bishop found out one Jeffryes, who commonly administered the blessed sacrament of the Eucharist, being either not in holy orders at all, or at least not a priest. As soon as he was discovered he slipt out of the diocese ; and the bishop thinks, that he now serves in a peculiar under the dean and chapter of Wells." The archbishop then adds, " I will send thither to know the certainty, and see the abuse punished, if I can light upon the person.1 * Impeachment, p. 4.-Prynne's Cant. Doome, p. 378. t Ibid. p. 362. t Wharton's Troubles of Laud, vol. i. p. 555. lienurr,
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