q, o The HISTORY of the PURITANS: Chap. Ir, KingJames I. fourth had the apocrypha ; the fifth had the four gofpels, the aêls and the revelations; and the fixth the.canonical epillles. The whole being fini(h_ ed, and reviled by learned men from both univerfities, the publifhing it- was committed to the care of bifhop Bitfon and Dr. Miles Smith, which laft wrote the preface that is now prefixed. It was printed in the year 1611. with a dedication to king games, and is the fame that is ftill read in all the churches. Kine: James's . Upon the death of Arminius, the curators of the univerfity of Leyden Vor(íius. chofe Conradus Yorflius his fuccefl'or. This divine had publifhed a very exceptionable treatife concerning the nature andproperties ofGod, in which he maintained, that God had a body; and denied his proper immenfity and ömnifcience, as they are commonly underftood. He maintained the divine Being to be limited and reftrained, and afcribed quantity and magnitude to him. The clergy of .dm/lerdam remonftrated to the ftates againft his fettlement at Leyden, the country being already too much divided about the Arminian tenets. To ftrengthen their hands they applied to the Englifb ambaffador to teprefent the cafe to king yames; and prevailed with the curators to defer his indultion into the profefforfhip till his ma- ]randt'shi, jefty had read over his book ; which having done, he declared Vorfiius Vol. H. to be an arch- heretick, a pelt, a manner f blafpbemies; and to thew his Pr97. deteftation of his book, ordered it to be burnt publickly in St. Paul's churchyard, and at both univerfities; in the conclufion of his letter to the Rates on this gccafion he fays, s. as God has honoured us with the " title of defender of the faith, fo (if you incline to retain Tforffiais any " c longer) we (ball be obliged not only to feparate and -cut ourfelvts off from fuck falfe and heretical churches, but likewife to call upon all " the reft of the reformed churches to enter upon the famecommon con- " fultation, how we may heft extinguifh and fend back to hell thefe cuffed .[Arminian] herefies that have newly broken forth. And as for ourfelves, we (hall be neceflitated to forbid all the youth of our °' fubjefts to frequent an univerfity that is fo infeéted as that of Leyden." ,His majefty alfo fent over fundry other memorials, in which he ftiles Tfor- ju tes a wicked Athe ; Arminius an enemy to God. And Bertha having wrote that thefaints might fallfrom grace, he laid the author was worthy of the .fire. 1612. At length the king publifhed his royal declaration in feveral languages, containing an account of all he had done in the affair of Tforflius, with his reafons.; which were, his zealfor the glory of God, his lovefor hisfriends and allies' {the fiates], and fear of thefain contagion in his own kingdom; but their high mightinefs did not like the king of England's intermedling fo far in their affairs. However, T/orttius was difmifl'ed to Gouda, where he lived privately till the fynod of Dort, when he was banifhed the fevers provincees;
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