Chap. V. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 2?23. the congregation himfelf, yet fhould he not forbid others who were Zueen " both able and willing ; that he could find no fault with Mr. Deering's El574th, doctrine or manner of life ; and that this was no great promotion. " He J therefore humbly defired, that if the Cloth-workers chofe him, that his L. ofParker lordfhip would tile his intereft with the archbifhop, not to refufe him ; but p' 478' his grace *as inflexible, and fo the bufinefs mifcarried. This Mr. Sampfon was a molt exaâ man in his principles and morals ; wires to, and having fuffered the lofs of all things for a good confcience, he took the Grindal b, liberty to write freely to his fuperiors, upon proper occafions ; and amongf=añ ° others, to Grindalarchbifhop of York, who had been hiscompanion in exile, tho' now advanced to the dignity ofa lord archbilhop. ,Sampfon in one of his letters, put him in mind of his former low condition, and cautioned hint againft being too much exalted with his high title. Grindal told him, he did not value the title of a lord, but that his great care was, to difcharge his funition faithfully, until the great day of the lord. Sampfon replied;. That if he whom worldly policy had made a lord, kept the humility of " an humble brother and minifter of the gofpel, he was a phoenix; but his "" port, his train of waiting-men in the ftreets, his gentlemen-ufhers going before him with bare heads, and hisfamily full of idle ferving men, look- " ed very lordly." He adds, " That his ownand his brethren's revenues,. fhould not be laidout in maintaining a parcel of lazy idle fervants, but. " rather upon thofe, who were labourers in the harveft of the lord Jefus. " That whereas the archbifhop had called them puritans, it was a name " unjuftly impofed on brethren, with whofe doftrine and life none could " find fault : If bypuritans, fuch were meant as following Novatus, `° fembled themfelves to be teachers, and wifhed the ceremonies might be " obferved, while they hated the cuftoms of the antient church, then might " a number of church-men be calledpuritans; and he prayed God to " purge them and make them more pure. " And whereas the archbi- L, ofParket, Thop in his letter, had pitied his complaints ofpoverty and lamenefs, he faid, p. 469. He complained of nothing; if he fhould complain of the former, it " would be before he had need ; but when he had need, he would coin- " ° plain to thofe to whom he might complain. Concerning his lamenefs,, . " he was fo far from complaining of that, that he humbly thanked God " for it ; and thofe chains he would choofe to carry, before the clogs and is cares of a bifhoprick. Such was the plain- dealing of this conffor, to one of the higheft dignitaries in the church.. Parker's zeal againft the puritans betrayed him fometimes into great in- if y{,am plat, conveniencies ; like a true inqui /itor, he liftned to every idle (tory of his fatherid on: fcouts, and rent it prefently to thequeen or council; and the older he grew,. t' puritans.. the more did his jealoufies prevail. In the month ofJune, one ofhis fer- vantsacquainted him,, that there was a .defign of the puritans againft the life-
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