Chap. I. lie H IS TORY ofthe PURI rANHS. 453 to." We confine all ecclefiaftical jurifdi&ion within one.congrega- KingjamesI: " tion, and that jurifdidion is not alone in the minifters, but alto in the 16t/ o1J elders of the church ; and their jurifdiétion is merely fpiritual.. " T Herefore all that we crave of his majefly and the Rate is, that Their humble, " with his and their permiffton, it may be lawful for us to worfhip Petition. " God according to his revealed will ; and that we may not be forced to " the obfervance of any human rites and ceremonies. We are ready. " to make an open confefiìon of our faith, and form, of worfhip, and "defare that we may not be obliged to worfhip God in corners, but that " our religious and civil behaviour may be open to the obfervation and cenfure of the civil government, to whom we profefs all due fub jeélion. So long as it (hail pleafe the king and parliament to maintain " the hierarchy or prelacy in this kingdom, we are content that they " enjoy their ftate and dignity ; and we will live as brethren among thofe " minifters that acknowledge fpiritual homage to their fpiritual lordfhips, . paying to themall temporal duties of tithes, &c. and joining with them " in the fervice and worfhip of God, fo far as we may, without our " own particular communicating in thofe human traditions which we " judge unlawful. Only we pray, that the prelates and their ecclefiafli- " cal officers may not be our judges, but that we may both of us Eland" " at the bar of the civil magiftrate, and that if we fhall be openly vi- " lifted and flandered, it may be lawful for us, without fear of punifh- ment, to juftify our (elves to the world ; and then we (hall think our " lives, and all that we have, too little to fpend in the fervice of our " king and country,' Though the principles of fubmifiion are here laid down withgreat- la- Proreàriiva- titude, and though the prafice of the Puritans was agreeable to them, °f the mini- yet their enemies did not fail to charge them with difloyalty, with fedi- von °° - Lion, and with diflurbing the peace of the ftate. Uponwhich the mini- Cornwall; fiers ofDevon and Cornwall publifhed another fmall treatife, entitled .d concerning removal of certain imputations laidupon the minifters, &c: in which they their loyalty. fay (p.. 21.) " Let them [the bithops] lift well our courfes ftnce his ma- LoyaltyPrerb,. jefty's happy entrance in among us, and let them name wherein we have P 150. " done ought that may juftly be faid ill to become the minifters of )efus " Chrifl. Have we drawn any (word ?: Have we raifedany tumult ? Have " we ufed any threats? Hath the ftate been put into any, fear or hazard " through us? Manifold difgraces havebeen call upon us, and we have enddred them ; the liberty of our miniflry hach been;taken from us, and "-(though with bleeding hearts) we have fuflained it. We have been call: "-out .of. ourhoufes, and, deprived, of our ordinary. maintenance,.yet.havc ".we.
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