Chap. VII, The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 3-29 general rules for their behaviour : One was, that they fhould endeavour Queen in their preaching and converfation to wipe offthe calumny of fchifm, for- Elizabéth, afmuch as the brethren communicated with the church in the word and facraments, and in all other things, except their corruptions ; and that they, affumed no authority to themfelves, ofcompelling others to obferve their decrees. In their provincial fynod held at Warwick, rune 4th, 1588. it was agreed, that it was not lawful to baptize in private; nor fufficient for a minifter to read homilies in churches; nor lawful to ufe the crois in baptifm. They agreed further, that they were not obliged to rat in the bithops deprivation, nor to appear in their courts, without a proteftation of their unlawfulnefs. In another fynod it was determined, that no man fhould take upon him a vague or wandering minifiry; that they who take upon them a cure of fouls, fhould be called by the church whom they are to ferve, and be approved by the claffes or fume greater affembly, and if by them they are found meet, they are to be recommended to the bifhop for ordination, if it might be obtained without fubfcribing the book of Common Prayer. It was further agreed, how much of the Common.L. of Whit .Prayer might be lawfully read for the preferving their miniftry;. andgift, .p. 29;,. how far they might exercife their difcipline without the civil- magiftrate. In another provincial fynod about Michaelmas it was agreed,, that the op- preffions offered to others, and efpecially to the minifters, by the bithops and their officials in their fpiritual courts, fhould be colleaed and regifler-- ed. if this had been preferved intire, more of the fufferings of thefe great and good menwould have appeared, and many works of darknefs, oppreffion and cruelty, would have been brought to light, which now mutt be concealed till the day of judgment. The danger with which the nation was threatened from a foreign inva- Mr. Caw- lion, gave a little check to the zeal of the bifhops againft the puritansW Ìond. for the prefent; however, this year Mr. Cawdery, minifter of South Lzrf,- pended. fangham, was fufpended; imprifoned, and deprived by thebifhopof London; M S he had a wife and (even children, which were calk upon providence ; burp. 225, this divine gave his lordflaip tome farther trouble, as will be teen here- after Mr. Wilton, who had been fufpended force time before, moved for a releafe in the bifhop's court; but becaufe he refuted to fub- fcribe, his fufpenfion was continued, and himfelf treated by the Civilians, with great inhumanity. Mr. 4rthur Hilderjbam, whom Mr. Fuller reprefents as a.heavenrSrMr. Hilder, divine, being at this time fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, was füf tham's pended by the-Commifoners, for preachingoccafonally before he had ,takenf nráton., orders, and obliged to fign the following recantatiön ;. " 1.córafefi that I Fuller, " have rafhly and indifcreetly taken upon me to preach, not being licen- B. IX. " fed nor admitted into holy orders, contrary to the.orders.of the church P. 642.- VOL, 1a. Una ßsï
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