.226 Thé HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. V. been " embarraffed. Before God (ftyshe) I. fear that her highnefs's authority Elizabeth, is not regarded ; and if publick laws are once difregarded, the govern- ti ' ment mutt fink at once, " Reformation There was but one corner of the Britifh dominions, that our archbithop's Guernfey arm could not reach, (viz.) the ides of Guernféy and yerfey ; thefe had and ferfey, been a receptacle for the French refugees from the parifian maffacre ; and lying upon the coalsof France, the inhabitantswere chiefly of that nation, and were allowed the ufe of the Geneva or French difcipline, by the lords of the council. An order of the ftates ofFrance had been formerly obtained, to feparate them from the jurifdidtion of the bihdp of Confiance in Nor- mandy, but no form of difciplinehaving been fettled by law, rince the refor- mation, Mr. Cartwright and Snape were invited to alit the minifters, in framing a proper difcipline for their churches : This fell out happily for Cartwright, who being forced to abandon his native country, made this the place ofhis retreat. The two divines being arrived, one was made titu- lar paftor of Mount Orgueil, in the ifle of yerfey ; and the other of Caille Cornet in Guernfey. The reprefentatiyes of the feveral churches, being al- fembled at St. Peter's Port, in Guernfey, they communicated to them a draught of difcipline, which was debated, and accomodated to the ufe of thofe ilands, and finally fettled the year following, as appears by the title of it, which is this ; The ecclefiaflical difcipline obferved andprattifedby the churches ofJerfey and Guernfey, after the reformation ofthefame, by the mi- niters, elders, and deacons of the ifles ofGuernfey and Jerfey, Sark, and Al- derney, confirmed by the authority, and in the pretence ofthe governors ofthe fame ¿es, ina f'nod holden in Guernfey, June 28th, 1576, and afterwards revived by thePaidminifiers and elders, and confirmed by the laidgovernors in a ¡nod, holden in Jerfey the a ith, 12th, r 3th, r 4th, r 5th, and 17th days. Heytin's cfCEtober, 1577. The book confits of 20 chapters, and each chapter of Aerius Red,- feveral articles, which wereconlantly obferved in thefe iflands, till the latter vives, p.zy6. end of the reign of king fames the firft, when the liturgy of the church of England fupplanted it. State of Though the papits were the queen's mol dangerous enemies, her ma- st 3,9, 410. of prfon, and connived atntheirrre] ligious affembfrequently s, of hich there were above Soo in Englandat this time : Many of the queen's fubjeéts retorted to the Portugal ambalfador's houle in Charter-houfeyard, wheremafs was publickly celebrated ; andbecaufe the fheriffs and recorder of London dif- turbed them, they were committed to the Fleet, by the queen's exprefs command. At the fame time they werepraétifing againt the queen's life: Foreignferai- And that their religion might not die with the preterit age,feminaries were Warier erec- creed and endowed, in feveral parts ofEurope, for the educationofEngl h tad. youth, and for providing a fuccefion ofmitfionaries to be Pent into Eng- latid
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