374 7be HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VIII. Queen " the churches of the land, to tear and devour God's poor cheep, and to E 59j`t', " rend off the fleflh and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as fleth " to the cauldron ? Will he thus inftru& and convince gainfayers ? Surely he will perfuade but few t ;at fear God, to his religion, by his deal- " ing and evil. Does he confult his own credit, or the honour of his prince by this tyrannous havpck ? For our parts, our lives are not dear " to us, fo that we may finifh our teftimony with joy We are al- " ways ready, through God's grace, to be offered up upon the tefl;imony " of the faith that we have made." Thus fell thefe two unhappy gentlemen a facrifice to the refentments of an angry prelate. ,m,15173. About fix weeks after this, the reverend Mr. Yohn Penry or Ap- ,Irnry. 7l1r. enrÿ's Henry, a Welfh divine, was executed for the fame crime, in a cruel and inhuman manner. He wasa pious and learned man, well difpdfed to re- ligion, (lays Mr. Strype) but miftaken in his principles, and hot in his temper; a zealous platformer, and a declared enemy of the archbifhop, He was-born in the county ofBrecknock, and educated firft at Cambridge, and afterwards in St. A1ban's=Hall Oxford, where he proceeded M. A a 586. and entered into holy orders, being well acquainted with arts and languages. He preached in both univerfities with applaufe, and after- wards travelling into Wales, was the firft, as he Paid, that preached the gofpel publickly to the Welfh, and fowed the good feed among his coun- trymen. In the year 1588. he publifhed a view offuch publick wants and diforders as are in ber majolly's country of Wales, with anbumble peti- tion to the high court of parliament for their redrefi : Wherein is (hewed not only the neceffity of reforming the (tate of religion among that pea ple, but alto the only way in regard of fubftance to bring that reforma- tion to pats. He alto publiflìed an exhortation to the governors and people of her majefly's country of Wales, to labour earnellly to have the preaching of the gofpel planted among them. Printed 1588. Prodatnation When Martin-mar-prelate, and the other fatyrical pamphlets againft ion apprehend the bithops were publifhed, a fpecial warrant was ifrued from the privy council 1S9o. under feveral of their hands, whereof the archbifhop's was one, to feize and apprehend Mr, Penry, as an enemy of the flaw ; and that all the queen's good fubje&s fhould take him fo to be. To avoid being taken he retired into Scotland, where he continued till this prefent year 1593. Here he made many obfervations of things relating to reli- gion, for his own private ufe; and at length prepared the heads of a pe- tition, or an addrefs to the queen, to(hew her majefty the true (tate of religion, and how ignorant fhe was of many abufes in the church of L. of Whit- England, efpecially in the management of ecclefiaftical matters; and like- rift, P. 409' wife to interceed for fo much favour, that he might by her authority, have liberty to go into Wales, his native country, to preach the gofpel. With
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