Chap. V 2 e HISTORY of the PuRr'rAN'S. 209 of learned men, the difference between bithops of the primitive church, Zueen and thole of the prefent church of England, in the following parti- Eliabéth. culars ; 5 r. Bithops and minifters then were in one degree, now they are diverfe. 2. There were then many bithops in one town, now there is but one in a whole country. 3. No bifhops authority was more than in one city, now it is in many (hires. 4. Bithops then ufed no bodily punifhments, now they imprifon, fine, &c. 5. The primitive bishops could not excommunicate, or abfolve, meer- ly by their own authority, now they may. 6. Then, without content of prelbyters, they could make no minifters, now they do. 7. They could confirm no children in other paddles, they do now in many {hires. 8. They had then but one living, now they have divers. 9. They had neither officials, commiffaries, nor-chancellors. ro. They dealt in no civil government, by any eftablifhed autho- Collier's eis. rity. Hft. P.543. r r. They had no right to alienate any parfonage, or let it in leafe. ra. Then they had a church where they ferved the cure, as thofe we call parifh priejis, though they were metropolitans or archbifhops.; fo that 11mbr%, St. Azßin, and others, who lived as late as the 4th or 5th century, and were called bishops, had very little agreement with ours. But far this our archbifhop never left him, till he was filenced again and deprived. On the 29th of yanuary 1573. the Reverend Mr. Arthur Wake, parfon Other minif- of Great Willing, value zoo 1, a year; Eu//bias Paget parfon of Owld, soul. rers deprived. a year; Thur/lon Moldy, parfon of Harding/Ion, 401. a year; George Gilderd parfon of Collingtrowge, and WilliamDaze/òn parfon of We/fonFlavel, zoo marks, all in the diocefe of Peterborough, of which Dr. Scambler was bifhop, and yames Ellis, L.L.D. chancellor, were firft fufpendedfor threeweeks, and then deprived of their livings. They were all preachers; four of them were Ecenfed by the univerfity, as learned and religious divines, and three of them had been moderators in the exercifes. The reafons of their depri- vation were not for errors in doftrine, or depravity of life, but not for fubfcribing two forms òf the commillioners deviling, one called forma promifonis, the other forma objurationis. In the forma pronzIionis they fwear and fubfcribe, " To ufe the fervice and common prayer book, " and the publick form of adminiflration of facraments, and no other; VOL.. I. E e that
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