MI/ Chap. V. 2'beHISTORY of. the PURITÁxs. 175 BI:CKLEY. You fpeak very confidently and rafhly. 2wen BtsR. This is his arrogant fpirit, --- Elizabe. C..,ti7-tiJ Thus the difpute broke off, and the good man, notwithftanding all his fupplications, was deprived of his living, and driven to Peek his bread in another country, though the bifhop owned he was a divine of good . learning, a ready memory, and well qualified for the pulpit. One fees here the difficulties the puritans laboured under in their ordi- nations ; they apprehended the eleftion of the people, and the exa rina- tion of prelbyters, with the impofition of their hands, neceffary to the call of a minifter ; but this, if' it were done in England without a bifhop, would hardly entitle them to preach in the church, or give them a legal title to the profits of their livings : Therefore after they had paffed the former trials, they applied to the bifhop for the impofitionof his hands; but others being difatisfled with the ordination of a fingle perfon, not rightly called, as they thought, to the office of a bifhop, went beyond fea, and were ordained by the prefbyteries of foreign churches: For though the Englirlu puritans had their fynods and prelbyteries, yet it is remarkable that they never ordained a fingle perfon to the miniftry. The controverfy with the church, which had hitherto been chiefly con- M-. Cart- fined to the habits, to the crof in baptìfm, and kneeling at the Lord's wri ht oppo- füpper, began now to opèn into feveral more conliderable branches, byfÿy`hof`ma:- the leCures of the reverend Mr. Thomas Cartwright, B. D. Fellow of church. Trinity-College, Cambridge, and lady Margaret's profeffor ; a couragious Strype's .fI. man, a popular preacher, a profound Icholar, and matter of an elegant 623, latin ¡tile ; he was in high efteem in the univerfity, his leCures being frequented by vaft. crouds of fcholars ; and when he preached at St. Ma-. ry's, they were forced to take down the windows. Beza lays of him, that he thought that there was not a more learned man under the firm, This divine, in his leCures, difputed againft certain blemifhes of the. Englifh hierarchy, and particularly againft there fix, which he fubfcribeds with his own hand. (a.) " The names and functions ofdirchbifhops and archdeacons. ought Strype'i. Are- " to be abolifhed, as having no foundation in fcripture. gals, p. 62,8í. (z.) " The offices of the lawful tninifters of the church, v iz . B pops kef`oP Par- " and deacons, ought to be reduced to the apoftolical inftitution ; the His' ohjetïi. , .< bifhop to preach the word of God and pray, and deacons . to take care.ow. . of the poor. (3.) `° The government of the church ought not to be intrufted with: " bilhops chancellors, or the official: of archdeacons; but every church. " fhould be governed by its own minifter and.prelbyters:. «. Mir.
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