Chap. V. The HISTORY of the PO JUT ANS. 20 I that church-government by an ELDERSHIP is by divine appointment, andofueen perpetual obligation.. He then confiders the defeat of the church of Eng- ElS7zch, land, and treats of the power of the civil magißrates in ecclefiaflical mat- ters; of ecclefiaftical perfns bearing civil offices ; and of the habits. He apologizes for going through with the controverfy at fuch a diftance of time, but he thought it of importance, and that it need not be athamed of the light. Speaking of his own poverty, difgrace, and banifhment, for appearing in this caufe, he Pays, " It were an intolerable delicacy, if " he could not give up a little cafe and commodity, for that where- " unto his life was due, if it had been afked; or that he fhould grudge " to dwell in another corner of the world, for that caufe for which he " ought to be ready altogether to depart out of it." But he was fenfible Strype, 1 he ftrove againft the ftream, and that his work might be thought unfea- nat. fonable, his adverfary being now advanced fo much above him; for this - year Wnitgift was made a bifhop, when poor Cartwright was little bet- ter than a wandering beggar. Thus ended the controverfy between thefe two champions ; fo that &narks, Fuller, Heylin, and Collier, mutt be miflaken, when they fay, Whitgift kept the field, and carried off a complete vidory, Cartwright having cer- tainly the laft word. But whoever had the better of the argument, Whit- gift got the molt by it; and when he was advanced to the pinacle of church-preferment, aéted an ungenerous part towards his adverfary for manyyears, profecuting him with continual vexations and imprifonments, and pointing all his church artillery againft him ; not (offering him fo much as to defend the common caufe of chriftianity again(t the papifls, when he was called to it ; however at length, being wearied with the importunities of great men, or growing more temperate in his old age, he fuffered him to govern a (mall hofpital in Warwick, given him by the earl of Leicefler, where this great and good man's grey hairs came down with forrow to the grave. To return, nótwithftanding all this oppofition from the queen and her commiflioners, the puritans gained ground ; and though the preis was reftrained, they galled their adverfaries with pamphlets, which were pri- vately difperfed both in city and country. Parker employed all his emif- faríes to difcover their printing preffes, but to no purpofe; whereupon he complained to the treafurer in thefe words, " I underftand through- L/' of Par. " out all the realm, Pays he, how the matter is taken ; the puritans are ker, P- 389 juflified, and we judged to be extreme perfecutors; I have obferved this " for (even years; if the fincerity of the gofpe! fhould end in fuch judg- " ments, I fear the council will be overcome. The puritans flander us " with books and libels, lying they care not how deep, and yet the more. !' they write, the more they are applauded and comforted......_" The VoL. I. D d fcholars
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