Chap. V, 2'he HISTORY of the PURITANS. áo7 now admit, that what was eftablifhed by law, fhouldbe expofed to quef- ,Queen tion, and referred to the hazard of a difpute. Inftead therefore of a Elizabeth, conference, they took a fhorter way, by fummoning the difputants before e i the ecclefia/lical common, to anfwer to fundry articles exhibited againft them, and among others to this, TPhether the CommonPrayer bcokis every part of it grounded 'upon holy /cripture.? An honour hardly to be allowed to any human compofure : And for not anfwering to the fatisfa&ion of the-conimiflioners, Mr. Wyburne, yohn/òn, Brown, Field, Wilcox; Spar- L;fe of and King, were deprived, and the four laft committed to New- ker, p 413 gate, from whence two of them had been but lately releafed. They were told further, that if they did not comply in a lhort time they fhould be banifhed -; though there was no law for inflif ing filch punifhment. Mr. Cartwright was fummoned among the reft, but wifely got out ofProclamation . the was', upon which the commoners iffued out the following order, againfi cart- "To all mayors, bailiffs, fherif£s, conftables, headboroughs, and all others wr'ght. " the queen's officers, to be aiding and aßìfting to the bearer [their met- " 'fengeri with the beft means they can devife to apprehend one THOMAS " CARTWRaGHT, ftudent in divinity, wherefoever he be within the " realm, and to bring him up to London with a fufficient guard, to Strype's A'o- " appear before us her majefty's commiffioners in caufes ecclefiaflical, nab-,. p. 279. " for his mifdemeanors in matters ofreligion ; December the 15th, 1573.. " Signed by fohn Rivers, Mayor, Edwin bifhop of Landon, Alexander Nowell Dean "of St. Paul's, Gabriel Goodman Dean of Wellmirfer, together with the attorney general, folicitor general, recorder, matter " of the rolls, and matter of the requefs." But Mr. Cartwright: laycon cealed among his friends, till an opportunity offered of leaving the king- dom. The Reverend Mr. Deering, reader of St. Paul's, was alto fufpended Mr. beer - for Tonic trifling words fpoken againft the hierarchy in converfation ; ing deprived. and in order to his reftoration was obliged to fubfcrihe four articles, viz. To thefitpremacy ; to the thirty nine articles; to the book fcommonprayer;. and that the word andfacraments are rightly admini/teyed in the church f England ; which he did, with fome few exceptions. The commit fioners then examined hint upon fifteen or twenty articles more, of which thefe were fonte, (I.) Whether we be tied by God's word, . to the order and ufc of the "- apoflles and of theprimitive church in all thiing's? -. (2.) Whether nothing may be in the church, concerning cereaito-. 60 vies or regimen, but only that which Chrift hüafelf has commanded' ': in his word?, (g) " Whethër every particular .parifh. church, of.-neceffity, and by " -the order of God5& word, .aeagbt ,tmrihave their pafdorc, elders, :. and. deacons,
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