-Cap. VII. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 301 other phaces,. the ftcrament was received in the poílure of kneeling, the Kneen templers received it to this very timefitting. `Travers would have introduc- Ehzageih, ed pofture of Handing at thefide ee the table, but the benchers infitted 5 upon_their privilege, and would receive it in no other pofture than ,tting, Strype's An- The archbifhop, in order to put an end to this praaice, would admit none nals, p. 24+ but ata..bighi conformifl, that they might be obliged to receive it kneeling, or not at all: .The harder the church prei%d upon the puritans, the more were they Hoek of difafefìed to the national .eftablifhment, and the more refolute in their dfüprrne. attempts for a reformation ofdfiplirie. There was a hook in high efteem among them at thislime,,entitled, Difciplina ecckfæfacra ex Dei verbo de- (cripta ; -.that ïs,.:2he holy Difeipline of the church dafcribed in the word of God. ; It was drawn up in latin .by Mr. .Travers, and printed at Geneva, about the year 1574. and fnce that time, had been diligently reviewed, correC`ted, and perfcëled by Mr. Cartwright, and other learned minifters at their lyoods. It was rranftated into-Englifh this year, with a preface by Mr. Cartwright, and rdefigned to be published for more general oie ; but as. it was: printing at Cambridge, it was feized at the prefs : The arch - bifhop advifed 'that all the copies fhóuld be burnt, as factious and feditious, but one was found in Mr. Cartwright's fludyafter his death, and re-printed in the year 1644. under this new title, Adireölcry of government, anciently contendedfor, andasfar as the time would fufèr, praeiifed by the full non- confrmi/ls, in the days of queen Elizabeth, found in thefludy of the moll ac- complifhed divine, Mr. Thomas Cartwright, after his deceafe, and rejerved to be bublifhed fn foci; a time as this. Publfhed by authority. It contains the fubfiance of thofe alterations in difcipìne, which the puritans ofthefe times contended for, and was fubfcribed by the brethren thereafter named, as agreeable to the word of God, and to be promoted by all lawful means, that it may be eflablifhed by the authority of the magiftrate, and ofthe church ;. and in the mean time to be oblerved, as far as lawfully they may, conúf- tently with the laws ofthe land, and.peace of the church. 1 have there- Appendix, fore given it a place in the Appendix, to which I refer the reader. N. 1f. Another treadle, difperfed privately about this time, againit the difcipline The ab/frat?, of the church, was intitled; An abflradV, of certain acts (?f parliament, and ofcertain of her maje/ìiy's injunclionsand canons, &c. printed by H. Denham, 1584. The author's design was to thew, that the bishops in their ecclefi- Strype'ì An- aftical courts had exceeded their power, and broke through the laws and Hats' p 233; ftatutes of the realm ; which was fo notorious, that the anfwerer, inflead X83. of confuting the ahftrac`ler, blames him for expofing their father's naked nefs, to the dam fling through of religion, by the fides of the bifhops. But who was in fault ? Shall the liberties and properties of mankind, he tram 0 pled upon by a defpotic power, and the poorfufferers, not allowedtohold up the
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