Chap. VIII. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 387 ritual guides. Archbifhop Whitgj t called in all the copies of Dr. Bound's .ueen book, by his letters and officers at fynods and vi(itattons, and forbid it to $'zabeth, be reprinted ; and the lord chief juftice Popham did the fame; both of them declaring, that thefabbath doelrine ageeed neither with the doctrine L. ofwhi& of our church, nor with the laws and orders of this kingdom ; that it trt'Boñd; diftutbed the peace of the commonwealth and church, and tended tobookfuppref- fchifm in the one, and fedition in the other ; but notwithflanding all thisfed by the caution, the book was read privately more than ever. .c The more li- archbilhop, .c berty people were offered (laysMr. Fuller) the lets they ufed, refufing to take the freedomauthority tendered them, as being jealous of a de- " fign to blow up their civil liberties." The archbifhop's head was no butprevails. fooner laid thap Dr. Bound prepared his book for the prefs a fecond time, and publifhed it with large additions, 16o6. and fuch was its re- putation, that fcarce any comment or catechifm was publifhed, by the ftritter divines for many years, in which the morality of the fabbath was not ftrongly recommended and urged : But this controverfy will re- turn again in the next reign. All the proteflant divines in the church, whether puritans or others, Predeßina. feemed of one mind hitherto about the doétrines offaith, but now there Tian contro- arofe a party which were first for foftning, and then for overthrowing verfy. the received opinions about prede/lination, perfeverance, free -will, fedual grace, and the extent of our Saviour's redemption. The articles of the church of England were thought by all men hitherto to favour the explication of Calvin; but thefe divines would make them fland neuter, and leave a latitude for the fubfcriber to take either fide of the queftion. All the puritans to a man maintained the articles of the church to be calviniflical, and inconfiftent with any other interpretation, and fo did far the greateft number of the conforming clergy ; but as the new expli- plications of Arminius grew into repute, the calvinifts were reckoned old fafhioned divines, and at length branded with the charade'. of DOCTRI NAL PURITANS. The debate began in the univerfityof Cambridge, whereone Mr. Bar- Mr. Barret's ret, fellow of Gonville and Casus college, in his fermon ad clerum, de- cafe. Glared himfelf againft Calvin's doctrine about predeination and fálling fromgrace; reflecting with forne fharpnefs upon that great divine, and advifing his hearers not to read him. For this he was fummoned before the vice-chancellor and heads of colleges, and obliged to retract in St. Mary's church, according to a form prefcribed by his fuperiors; which heread after a manner that (hewed he did it only to fave his place in the univerfity. This was fo offenfive to the fcholars, that forty or fifty gra- duates of the feveral colleges figned a petition, dated May 26. 1595. defaring fome further courfe might be taken with him, that the great D d d 2 names
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