Hfiory ofthe Puritans, examina 277 fo all Pulpits were fupplied with their Seditious and Schifm.itical Preachers.' Neal, p. 488. Becaufe great Complaints were made to the Houfe of the Idlenefs andYicioufnefs of the Coun- try Clergy, another Committee was appointed to exa- mine into fuch Complaints, and was called the Com- mitteefor Scandalous Miniflers. By Scandalous .Min f ers, no more was meant than the being truly Orthodox, truly conformable to the Rules and Orders of the Church, and faithful and obedient Subjus to his Majefty. See an Account of their fcandalous Committees, in Dr. Walker's Sufferings of the Epifcopal Clergy. Neal, p. 490. The Lords in a Heat appointed their Order of January 16. to be reprinted, That Divine Service fhouid be appointed by .Rc7of Parliament, and that all that dii lurb that Order 'hall be punted ac- cording to Law. Ibid. Mr. Rapin obferves, That there ferns no necYity for the Lards to renew this Order ; but it was done out of Spleen and Revenge, becaufe the Commons had made a Declaration againft Innovations, and it was not doubted but the Bithops were thechiefAuthors of it. * Happy, lays Nalfon, for the Bifhops, that on- ' ly the Bithop of Lincoln was then prefent in the Houfe, or affenting to the Vote ; otherwife the whole Nation had rung of it, that they were the only Obflruaers of the intended Reformation, and would have furnifh'd their Enemies with one Argument more for the Extirpation of the Hier- , archy, Root and Branch.' Neal, Ibid. Lord Clarendon fays, That Seditious and FaRious Perfons caufid the Windows to be broke down in Churches, lore away the Rails, remov'd the Communion-Tables; [which in many Places had * Nalfan, Vol. II, p, 48s. T3 flood
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