336 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VII. áZueen a, rites and ceremonies by political inftitution appointed in the church, Elizabeth, " are not ungodly nor unlawful, but may for order and obedience fake b88. g Y Y : -v " be ufed by a good chriflian. But I am now, and ever have been per- L. of Whit- " flooded, that film of thefe rites and ceremonies are not expedient for this gift, p' 287' " church now ; but that in the church reformed, and in all this time of <., the gofel, they may better be difufedby little and little, than more and r., more urged." Such a teftimony from the dying lips of one who had been a fevere perfecutor of honeft men, for things which he always thought had better be difufed than urged, deferves to be remembered, He died in the month of July, x588, in the 69th year of his age, and was, buried in the collegiate church of Sauthwell, where there is a monu- ment ereEled to his memory, with his own effigies on the top, and a great . number of his children kneeling round the fides of it. C H A P. VIIT. From the SPANISH INVASION to the death of .teen ELIZABETH. 1589 HI- LE there was any hopes of compromifing matters between Satyrical the chu ch and puritans, the controvert was carried on with pamphlets. X p > Y fome decency ;. but when all hopes of accommodation were at an end; the contending parties loaded each other with the heavieft reproaches.. The publick printingpreps being /hut againft the puritans, fome of them purchafed a private one, and carried it from one country to another to prevent a difcovery : It was firfb fet up at Moulfey in Sus rey, near Kin on on Thames ; from thence it was conveyed toFawfey in Northampton/hire ; from thence to Norton, from thence to Coventry, from Coventry to Wool- lion in Warwickfhire, and from thence to Manchefer in Lancafhire, where it was difcovered. Sundry fatyrical pamphlets were printed :. by this prefs,, and difperfed all over the kingdom ; as Martin Martin Mar-prelate ; written as is fuppofed., by a club of feparatifts, Mar-Prelate. for the authors were never difcovered >. It is a violent fatyr againft the hierarchy and all its fupporters; it calls-the lords bifhops pettyantichrUIs, petty popes, proud prelates, enemies to the piped, and mß covetous wretched prie/ls. It Pays, " That the Lord has given many of our bifhops over ao to a reprobate fenfe, becaufe they wilfully oppofe and perfecute- the ". truth; and fuppofes them to have committed, the unpardonable fin, becaufe
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