45'8 The HISTORY (?/: the PURITANS. Chap. II. TciniarnesI. fh ould have been frugal of his revenues, that he might not have flood in -v need of parliaments ; but our monarch was extravagantly profufe, and to fupply his wants delivered back this year to the Dutch their cautionary towns, which were the keys of their country, for lefs than a quarter part of the money that had been lent on then. 1617. This year died the learned and judicious Mr. Paul Baynes, born in Lon- death anle9a don, and educated in Cbrift's College Cambridge, of which he was fellow. .eharat/er. He fucceeded Mr. Perkins in the lecture at St. Andrews church, where he behaved with that gravity and exemplary piety, as rendered him uni- verfally acceptable to all who had any tafle of ferious religion, till archbi- fhop Bancroft fending Dr. Harfiset to vifit the univerfity, called upon Mr. Baynes to fubfcribe according to the canons, which he refuting, thedolor filenced him, and put down his lecture. Mr. Baynes appealed to the arch- bifhop, but his grace flood by his chaplains, and threatened to lay the good old man by the heels, for appearing before him with a little black edging uponhis cuffs. After this Mr. Baynes preached only occafionally; as he could get opportunity, and was reduced to fuck poverty and want, that he Paid, He had not where to lay his head ; but at lengthdeath put an end to his fufferings in the year i617. He publifhed a Commentary upon the Epbefians; the Dioclefans Trial againft Dr. Dszenham ; and force other prac`lical treatifes. Dr. Sibbes lays, he was a divine of uncommon learn- ing, clear judgment, ready wit, and of much communion with God and his own heart. What pity was it, that fuch a divine fhould be reftrained and in amanner ftarved Progrefs of The difputes in Holland between the Calvinßs and . rminians upon the theArminian five points, relating to elefiion, redemption, original fin, effeftual grace, and eontroveofi Holland. m perfeverance, rote to fuch an height, as obliged the Rates general to have recourfe to a national fynod, which was convened at Dort, Nov. 13. 1658. Each party had loaded the other with reproaches, and in the warmth of dilpute, charged their opinions with the moti invidious confequences, info- much that all good neighbourhood was loft, the pulpits were filled with unprofitable and angry difputes, and as each party prevailed, the other were turned out of the churches. The magitirates were no lefs divided than the miniflers, one city and town being ready to take up arms againfi another. At length it grew into a fiate faction, which endangered the diffolution of the government. Maurice Prince of Orange, though a re- monirant, put himfelf at the head of the Calvins [or contra-remon- ftrants] becaufe they were for a fiadtholder, and the magiftrates who were againtf a ftadtbaider Tided with the [remonfirants, or] Arminian, among whom the advocate of Holland, Oldenbarnevelt, and the penfionaries of Leyden andRotterdam, Hogerberts. and Grotius, were the chief. Several attempts were made for an accommodation, or toleration of the two par- ties;
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