2i6í The HISTORY of the PURITANS. -Chap. V. tuees White. I have paid fines and fees in other priions ; fend me not where Elizabeth, :I (hall pay them over again. L.,-,1572.L.,-,1572..i L. C. Yes marry (hall you : This is your glory. White. I defire no fuch glory. L. C. y. It will coif you twenty pounds I warrant you, before you come out. White. God's will be done. Thefe feverities againit zealous proteftants, of pious and lober lives, raifed the compaflion of the common people, and brought them over to their interefts. It was a great grief to the archbithop, fays Mr. Strype, " and to other good bithops, to fee perlons going off from the firft " eftablifhment of the proteftant religion among us, making as if the " fervice book . was unlawful, and the ecclefiaftical ftate antichri(lian; " and labouring to fet up another government and difcipline." But who drove them to thefe extremities? Why were not a few amend- ments in the liturgy yielded to at firft, whereby confcientious men might have been made eafy ; or liberty given them to worfhip God in their own way ? Puritan mi- Notwithftanding the dangers already mentioned, " people reforted to niflers ca- " the Coffering Puritans in prifon, as in popery they were wont to run relied by the " on pilgrimage: (They are the bifhop ofLondon's words.) Somealder- people. " men, and feveral wealthy citizens, gave them great and flout counte- Ltfe ofPar- Y g g ker, p. 227, nances, and perfuaded others to do the like." Separate Separate communions wereeftabli(hed, where the facrament of the Lord's communions. flipper was adminiftered privately, after the manner of the foreign reformed churches ; and thofe who joined with them, according to archbifhop:Par- ker, figned the following proteftation. Pro/0at,a t " E I N G thoroughly perfuaded in my confcience, by the work- of the mem- " ing and by the wordof the Almighty, that thefe relicks of an- L+fe of Par- " tichriit are abominable before the Lord our God ; and alto, for that ker, p. 435, by the power, mercy, ftrength, and goodnefs of the Lord our God °` only, I am efcaped from the filthinefs and pollution of thefe detellable traditions, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jefus tf Chrift : And lift of all, in as much as by the working alto of the Lord Jefus his holy fpirit, I have joined in prayer and hearing God's word, with thofe that have-not yielded to this idolatrous troll), not- " withftanding the danger for not coming to my parifh church, &c. Therefore I come not back again to the preaching of them that have " received thefe marks of the Romifh beafl. I. " Becaufe
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