Chap. VII. the HISTORY of the PtiRrrANS. 297 " temporalities and other lands, td maintain there wars which you pro- " cured, and your miuirefs left her ; and with the raft to build and found Et' '84. " fchools throughout the realm ; that every parifh may have his preacher, ¡:) " evverycity hisfuperintendent, to live honettly and not pompoufly, which " will never be, unlefs your lands be difperfed and beftowed upon° many, " which now feedeth and fatteth but'one ; remember that ?bimehch, when " David in his banifhment would have dined with him, kept fuck hoe- " pitality, that he had no bread in his hoof,: to give him, but the/hew- " bread. Where was all his fuperfluity, to keep your pretended'hofpi- " tality ? For that is the caufe you pretend why you muff have thoufands, " as though you were commanded to keep hofpitality rather with a thou- " fand, than with a hundred. I would.our. countryman Wicklif 's book L. of Ayl- de Ecclfa Were in print, there fhould you fee that your tvrinches and 1ner, P. 264° cavillations be nothing worth." When the bifhop was put in mind of this paffage, he made no other reply than that of St. Paul, When I was a child, I /pale as a child, I thought as a child. The cafe of thofe clergymen who were fent for up toLambeth, from the HarcPips of remoteft parts of the kingdom, was yet harder. Mr. Elljion vicar of Pre/ion, the country made fever journies to Peterborough, which was thirty -fixmiles from his ergy. honfe, and ten to London, within the cornpafs of two years, befides le- varal to Leicefler and Northampton, at his own colt and charge; and after all, was deprived for not fubfcribing. To whom might be added, Mr. Stephen Turner, Mr. William Fleming of Beccles, Mr. Holden of Biddldone, and others. Among thefe, the cafe of the reverend Mr. Eufebius Paget, minilìer Mr. Paget': of the parifh church of Kilkhampton, in the diocefe of Exon, was verypMSJP58, moving ; this divine, at the time of hispreféntation, acquainted his pa- tron and ordinary, that he could not with quietnefs of confcience ufe forhe rites, ceremonies and orders appointed, in the fervice - book; who promifed, that if he would take the charge of the laid cure, he fhould not be urged to the precife obfervation of them ; upon which condition, he accepted the 'charge, and was admitted and regularly included. Mr. Paget was á lame man, but in the opinion of. Mr. St/e, a learned, peaceable, and quiet divine, who had complied with'ihe cufioins and devotions of the church, and was indefatigable in his work, travelling up and down the neighbouring country, to preach the plain principles of religion ; but Mr. Farmer, curate of Barn/itble, envying Lis popula- rity, complained of him to the high comnrifon, (t.) Becaufc he did not mention in his prayers the queen's /isprçrüacj/ over both Oates' "(2.) Be_ cacle he had laid that the fácraments were but dumb elements, and did not avail without the word preached. (3,) Becaufe he had preached that Chrift did not deleend into hell both body and foul. (1.) That the Vol.. I. Q q Fope
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