Chap. VII. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 28,E be offered to be made, my lord of Leiceßer and Sir Francis Wa'ingham Queen defired Dr. Sparke to content himfelf, feeing they doubted not, but that Eizabeth, he had prayed already before his coming thither. Dr. Sparke therefore t.-..5,,-4-;, 8 omitting to ufe fuch prayer as he had propofed, made a fhort addrefs to God in very few words, though the archbifhop continued to interrupt him all the while. The heads that the minifters inffted upon were, I. Putting the apo- Heads of the cryphal writings (in which were feveral errors and'falfe doétrines) upon conferences. aTevël with the holy fcripture, by reading them publickly in the church, while"feveral parts of the canon were utterly omitted. This they faid had been forbidden by councils, and particularly that of Laodicea. The archbifhop denied any errors to be found in the apocrypha ; which led the minifters into a long detail of particulars, to the fatisfai tion (lays my author) ofthe noblemen. H. The fecond head was uponbágtm ; and here they-obje&ed, (t.) Againft its being done in private. z. Againft its being done by laymen or women, And, 3. Againft the doctrine from whence this praétice arifes, viz. That children not baptized are in dan- ger of damnation ; and that the outward baptifm of water faveth the child that is baptized. 4. Agzainft the interrogatories in the name of the child, which Mr. Travers charged with arifng from a falfe principle, viz, that faith was neceffary in all perlons to be baptized. He added, that the in- terrogatories crept into the church but lately, and took their rife from the baptifm of thole that were of age; from whence very ignorantly they were transferred to infants. S. Againft the crofs, as a myflical rite and ceremony, and an addition to the facrament, of human invention. Here they argued, that though the foreign divines did not condemn the ufe of the crofs, yet all agreed it ought to be abolifhed, and Reza gives coun- fei to the minifters, rather to forego their miniftry, than fubfcribe to the al- lowance of it. After many words upon this head, my lord of Leicefler Paid it was a pitiful thing, that fo many of the belt minitlers, and pain- ful in their preaching, fhould be deprived for thefe things. III. They objected to private communion. IV. To the apparel. And here they pro- duced the judgment of bifhop Ridley at his degradation, as reported by Mr. Fox, who Paid, it was too bad to be put upon a fool in a play. M8:p.562, V. They objected to the bithop's allowing of an in, fu, iicient minifiry, non- &c. refidence, and plaralities. "`The conference continued two days, at the clofe of which neither par- ThelImeofit. ty being fatisfied, the noblemen requefted fome favour for the minifters. L. of Whit- Mr. Strype Pays the minifters were convinced and confirmed ; but it is sift' p' rho' evident he knew not the difputants, nor had feen the debate ; a copy of which is before me. Travers was .a non- conformift to his death, and Sparke appeared at their head at the Hampton Court conference, the be- VoL. I. P p ginning
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