186 Ve HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap, V. .t,een " doctrines whatfoever by this pure word, as by a certain rule and perfeft Elizabeth, touchftone. And to this word of God we humbly fubmit ourfelves, and j'57" " all our doings, willing and ready to be judged, reformed, or further " inftruéted thereby, in all points of religion: Mr. Strype calls this, a well minded, and religioujly difpofed combination of bothbifhop, magifirates, and people. It was defigned to ftir up an emu- lation in the clergy to ftudy the fcriptures, that they might be more ca- pable of inflruCting the people in chriftian knowledge ; and though men of lode principles cenfured it, yet the ecclefiaftical commiffioners, who had a Special letter from the queen, to inquire into novelties, and were acquaintedwith the fcheme above-mentioned, gave them as yet nei- ther check nor d,iflurbance; but when her majefly was informed that they were nurferies of puritanifm, and tended to promote alterations in the government of the church, the quickly fuppreffed them, as will be feen in its proper place. Bp. jewel's This year put a period to the life of the eminent john jewel, bifhop death and of SalJbury, author of the famous Apology for the church of England. ehorafter. He was born in Devonfhire, I522. and educated in Chrill- church College, Oxon, where he proceeded M. A. 1544. In king Edward's reign, he was a zealous promoter of the reformation ; but not having the courage of a martyr, he yielded to force things againft his confcience in the reign of queen Mary, for which he afked pardon of God, and the church, among the exiles in Germany, where he contined a confefíor for the gof- pel till queen Elizabeth's acceffion, when he returned home, and was preferred to the bifhoprick of Salifbury, 15.54. He was one of themolt learned men among the reformers, a Calving/1 in doétrine, but for abfo- folute obedience to his fovereign, in all things of an indifferent nature, which led him not only to comply with all the queen's injunctions about the habits, when he did not approve them, but to bear hard upon the confciences of his brethren, who were not fatisfied to comply. He pub. tithed feveral treatifes in his lifetime, and others were printed after his . death; but that which gained him greateft reputation, was his apology, whichwas tranflated into the foreign languages, and ordered to be chained in all the churches of England. He was a truly pious man, and died in a comfortable frame of mind, Some of his lad words were, I have not fò lived that I ans afhamed to die ; neither am .1 afraid to die, for we have a graciousLord. There is laid up for me a crown of rìghteoufnefs. Chrilt' is my righteoufnefs. Lord, let thy fervant depart in peace ; which he did at Monkton Farley, Sept. 23.. 1571, in the Seth year of his age, and lies buried in the middle of the choir ofthe cathedral of Sal(buoy. The reverend In the fame year died the reverend Mr. David Whitehead, a great Mr. White- fcbolaï and a moft. excellent profeflbr of divinity.. He was educated head's death. '
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