412 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. I. KingJamesT. The account of this conference was publifhed at large only by Dr. Bár- I 6 low, who being a party Pays Fuller, fet a fbarp- edge on his own, and a Pierce, blunt one on his adverfaries weapons. Dr. Sparks and Raynolds complained, P 153, 154. that they were wronged by that relation ; and Dr. yackfon declared, that Barlow himfelf repented upon his death-bed, of the injury he had done the puritan minifters in his relation of the Hampton Court conference. of Whit. Mr. Strype has lately publifhed a letter of the bifhopof Durham to Hut- i ton archbifhop of York which agrees pretty much with Barlow; but N 45. P s g P Y Mr. Patrick Galloway, a Scots man, has fet things in a different light; from all thefe, and from the king's own letter to Mr. Blake a Scots man, we muff form the heft judgment of it that we can. Firfi day's The conference continued three days, (viz.) 7anuary14th, 16th, and cenferencebe- 18th ; the firft was with the bifhops and deans alone yanuary 14th. the Dineen the kin& and the puritan minifters not bein g P refent ; when the king made a fpeech in bops only. commendation of the hierarchyof the church of England, and congra- tulated himfelf, that " he was now come into the promifed land; that " he fat among grave and reverend men, and was not a king, as for- `° merly, without ftate ; nor in a place where beardlefs boys would brave " him to his face. He affured them, he had not called this affembly " for any innovation, for he acknowledged the government ecclefraftical,. " as now it is, to have been approved by manifold bleffings from God " himfelf; but becaufe he had received fome complaints of diforders, " he was willing to remove them if fcandalous, and to take notice of " them if but trifling; that the reafon of his confulting them by them - Faller, felves, was to receive fatisfa&ion from them, (a.) About fome things B. X' p 8. c< in the common prayer book. (2.) Concerning excommunication in " the ecclefiaftical courts. (3.) About providing fome well qualified " minifters for Ireland ; that if any thing fhould be found meet to be " redreffed, it might be done without their being confronted by their " opponents.', In the common prayer book his majefly had fome fcruples about the confirmation of children, as if it imported a confirmation of baptifm. But the archbifhop on his knees replied, that the church, did not hold baptifm imperfect without confirmation. Bancroft laid it was of apoftolical in- ftitution, Heb. vi. 2. where it is called, the doctrine of the layingon of hands. But to fatisfy the king, it was agreed that the words examination of children fhould be added to confirmation. His majefty excepted to the abfolution ofthe church, as too nearly refem- tiling the pope's pardon. But the archbifhop is Paid to clear it up to the king's fatisfaêtion, only to the rubrick of the general abfolution thefe words were to be added for explanation fake, remifanf fins.
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