370 queen Elizabeth, 1592. . 7,e ,HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VIII. Pr f vers deceafd. Widow Row, Nie. Crane, Out ?Jr the Poultry Compter. Thomas Stephens. yohn Chandler. Out of the Clink. Out of Wooditreet.Compter. George Dinghtie. Out of Newgate. Richard yackfon, Widow Mainard, Henry Thompfnn jerom Studley. Out of Bridewel. yohn Pardy: . In all io.. Barrowe's Among the namesfubfcribed to this petition is Mr. HenryBarrowe, an in- fupplication genious and learned, man, but of too warm a fpirit, os appears by his book, for e."nfe- entitledAbriefdifcoveryoffalfechurches, printed 159o.and reprinted 1707. retire. Strype's An. This gentleman having been feveral years in prifon, Pent another fupplication Vol. tilt. to the attorney general and alto to the privy council, for a conference with P' '7'' 173 thebithops, or that their minfers might be conferred with in their hear- ing, without taunts or railings, for fearching out the truth in love ; " If " it be objeo ed [lays Barrowe] that none of our fide are worthy to be " thus difputed with, we think we (hall prove the contrary; for there " are three or four of them in the city of London, andmore elfewhere, " who have been zealous preachers in the parifh affemblies, and are not " ignorant of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew tongues, nor otherwife un- " learned, and generally confeffed to be of honed converfation. If this " motion takes effEt, the controverfy will foon end with molt of us, for by this means we poor wretches thall perceive, whether asfimple fouls " we are led afide ; or whether as the dear children of 'God we arefarf " trufted with the view of, and flanding up for the caufe of holinefs and `t righteoufnefs. --But let us riot.periih fecretly in prifon, or openly by execution, for want of that help that lies in your power to afford;. when we profefs in . the fight of God, we do not feparate from the eflablithment out of pride or obftinacy, but from the conftraìnts of " confcience." Reafonrfor But all thefe petitions were rejefted by the bifhops and privy council refuftng it. for the following reafons, if they deferve that name; " (t,) Becaufe a Strype's An. ae difputation had been denied to papilts. (a.) To call the minittry of VOL It. P. 7 " the church of England into queflion, is to call all other churches into " queflion, againit whom their exceptions extend. (3.) The church of " England
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