280 Mr. N E A Lis IId Vol. of the der of the Commons ; Alalfon calls it in the Margin, The Lcrds Order about thafe who committed the Dif- orders in Saint Saviour's, and Saint Olive's, South- wark. Neal, p. 496. The Bi/hop of Lincoln, in the Re- cef of Parliament, vfted his Diocefe, and exhorted the People in his Sermons to keep to their lawful Mini- - fler, and not go after rub-Preachers in Conventi- cles. Look back (lays his Lordfhip) from the begin- ning of Been Elizabeth ; can the Gofpel ¡landbetter againfl the Church of Rome, than it has done under Bifhops, Liturgy and Canons? Therefore don't aban- don the good old way, for another which you do not know how much Evil may be in it. And fuppofing all this to be true, (which might be queflioned, becaufe he quotes no Authority for it) were not thefe Directions perfec 'tly right? Sir Edward Dering (a Favourite Author) in his Speech concerning the Declaration of the Kingdom, Nov. 20. 2641. fays, That there were frequent Schiff matical Conventicles, that Taylors, Shoemakers, Braziers, Feitmakers, did climb the publick Pulpits.' Was not the Bifhop then to be juftifled, for cautioning his People againft fuch Places, and fuch. vile Seducers ? His Vilitation-Articles, printed a 64 r,. are very good .ones, and there are two or three, which, had our Hifforian feen them, would certainly have prevented his cenfuring the Bifhop upon this Occafion, and have deferv'd a Place in his Hiftory. Concerning the Clergy, Art. 5. ' Do you know of any Parfon, Vicar or Curate, that bath intro- , cluced. any offenuve Rites or Ceremonies into the Church, not eftablifh'd by the Laws of the Land? as namely, that make three Curtefes towards .the Communion- Table, that call the ¡aid Table are Altar, that .enjoin their People at coming into the Church, to bow towards the Eafl,
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