P R E F A C E . vii upon the Geneva model, with an additional prayer for the afflibledflate of the church of England at that time ; but when Dr. Cox, afterwards bi- fhop of Ely, came with a new detachment from England, he interrupted the public fervice by anfwering aloud after the Minifter, which occajiened fach a dfurbance and divifion as could never be healed. Mr. Knox and Mr. Whittingham, with onehalf of the congregation, being obliged to re- move to Geneva, Dr. Cox and his friends kept pfelon of the church at Frankfort, till there arofè fach quarrels and contentions among themfèlves, as made them- a reproach to the (rangers among whom they lived. Thus the feparation began. When the exiles, upon the accefon of queen ELIZABETH, returned to England,, eachparty were for advancing the reformation according to their own /landard. The queen, with thofe who had weathered the florin at home, were only for king Edward's liturgy, but the majority of the exiles *were for the worfhip and difcipline of the foreign churches, and refufed' to comply with the old f ablifhment, declaiming loudly againfl thepop6(h ha- bits and ceremonies. The new bilbops, mo/t of whom had been their com- panions abroad, endeavoured to foften them for the prefent, declaring they would ufe all their inter f s at court, to make them eafy in a little time: The queen alto connivedat their non-conformity, till her government was fet- tled, but then declared roundly, that the had fixedher /tandard, and would have all her fubjetlo conform to it ; upon which the bops ffend in their behaviour, explained away their promifes, andbecame toofevere again/t their denting brethren. In the year Is6¢, their lord/hips began to thew their authority, by urging the clergy of their feveral diocefès to fubfcribe the liturgy, cere- monies and difcipline of the church ; when thole that refufed were fir/t` called PURITANS, a name of reproach derived from the Cathari, or Pu- ritani of the third century after Chri/I, but proper enough to exprefs their (Wires of a more pure form of worjhip and difcipline in the church. When the doctrines of Arminius took place, in the latter endof the reign of king James I. theft who adhered to Calvin's explication of the five difputed points, were calleddoétrinal puritans; and at 'length (lays Mr. Fuller,) theCh. bi/fary, name was improved to fligmatize all thole who endeavoured in their devo- B. IX. p. 97. tions to accompany the minifter with a pure heart, and who were remark- B. X' p.Ioo. ably holy in their converfations. Al PURITAN therefore was a man of fe- vere morals, a Calvinift in doarine, and a non conformift to the cere- monies and difcipline of the church, though he did not totally feparate from it. The 9ueen having conceived a ftrong averfion to theft people, pointed all her artillery againft them ; for befides the ordinary courts of the bifhops, ber májefty trotteda new tribunal, called the court of HIGH' COMMISSION, which
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