Chap. V. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 199 gods, as Field, Wilcox, Cartwright, and others, be far removed from Queen " the City ;.the people refort to them, as in popery they were wont to Elizabeth, °' run on pilgrimages ; if thefe idols, who are honoured as faints, were ¡v removed from hence, their honour would fall into the duff, and they " ° would be taken for blocks as they are. A (harp letter from her majefty would cut the courage of thefe men. Good, my lords, for the love' .r you bear to the church of Chrift, refift the tumultuous enterprizes of " of thefe new fangled fellows. Thefe were the weapons with which the doctor's anfwer to the admonition was enforced ; fo that we may fairly conclude with Fuller the hiftorian, " That if Cartwright had the " better of his adverfary in learning. Whitgift had more POWER to hack " his arguments ; and by THIS he not only kept thefield, but gained the " vi&ory." On the other hand it is certain,. vaft numbers of the clergy both in London and the two univerfities, had a high opinion of Cartwright's writings; he had many admirers ; and if we may believe his adverfaries, wanted not for prefents and gratuilks:. Many hands were procured in ap- Life of probation and commendation of is reply to Whitgift ; and Tome laid, ker, p, 427. they would defend it to death. In (Mort, though Whitgiift's writings might be of ufe to confirm thofe who had already conformed, they made no converts among the puritans, but rather confirmed them in their former fentiments. To purfue this controverfy to the end:- In the year 1573, Dr. Wit, Cant-Von of gift publifhed his defence againft Cartwright's reply; in which he fistesfhzrourrouzr- the difference between them thus, The queflion. is not, whether mau. FiJtgirt'r things mentioned in your PLATFORM OF DISCIPLINE were fitly pfd 1n Lye, p, the apoflles time, or may now be well ufed in fündry reformed churches, 'this is not denied; but whether, when there is a fettled order in etlrine andgovernment ellabliJhed by law, it may flaesd' withgodlyandchri/lianwig= dom, to attempt fo great alteration as this PLATFORM mull needs bring in, with difobedience to the prince and laws, and unquietnefs f the church, and ooence of many confciences. If this were the whole queftion, firrely it might hand with the wifdorn of the legijiatur-e in fettled times, to make fome conceffions in favour of pious and devout men; nor can it be ineon- fiftent with godly and 'chriflian wifdom, for fubjelts to attempt it, by lawfùl and peaceable methods. Two years after [I,575.ì"Mr. Cartwright publi(hed a fecond reply to Whitgft's defence;, it confilted of two parts; the firft was intituleci, T''s fécond' reply of T; C. againfl Dr. Whitgifc's fecond artfrre'er touching the church difcipiene -; with thelé two fentences of fcripture in the title page, For Ziioi,'s fiike Iwill not hold my tongue; for Jeruf lem's fake I will net refs, till the reghteoufofrtilereof,break forth:as the. light, . --;.-re, are the Lord's
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