496 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. II. Xin3JaincsI c jelly (honld prefcribe fome further punifhment with advice of con- 1622. " vocation. Ldp 1.) Rema,ks. l(re is nothing that could affeEt papifls or arminians, but almoft every article points at the puritans. The king had aßïlled in maintaining thefe doctrines in Holland, but will not have them propagated in England. The thirty -nine articles were eflablifhed by law, and yet not under a hi- fhop or dean may preach on the feventeenth, concerning predeflination. The miniflers of God's word may not limit the prerogative, but they may preach concerning its unlimited extent; and though the fecond in- Book X. junllion admits of their expounding the catechifm, Fuller fays, " the bi- p. rrr, " (hops officials were fo active, that in many places they tied up preachers " in the afternoon to the very letter of the catechifm, allowing them no " liberty to expound or enlarge upon anyof the anfwers." The puritans had fullred hitherto only for the neglect of ceremonies, but now their verydottrine is an offence. From this time, all Calvini/ls were in a man ner excluded from court preferments. The way to rife in the church, was to preach up the abfolute power of the king, to declaim againft the rigours of Calvinifm, and to fpeak favourably of popery. Tilde' who fcrupled this, were negle ted, and diflinguifhed by the name of dollrinal puritans ; but it was the glory of this people that they flood together, like a wall, againft the arbitrary proceedingsof the king, both in church and (late. Archbiilhop Archbifhop Abbot was at the headof the doc`lrinal puritans ; and often Abbbot ac- advifed the king to return to the old parliamentary way of raifing money: eidentally This coil him his intereft at court; and an accident happened this year, kills a man, and retires which quite broke his fpirits, and made him retire from the world. Lord from court. Zouch invited his grace to a buck- hunting in Bramfhill park in Hampfhire; and while the keeper was running among the deer, to bring them to a fairer mark, the archbifhop fitting on horfeback, let fly a barbed arrow, which (hot him under the arm-pit, and killed him dead upon the fpot. Ilis grace was fo diflreffed in mind with the accident, that he retired to one of his own alms-houfes at Guilford; and though upon examination of the cafe, it was judged cafital homicide, he kept that day as a fall: as long as he lived; and allowed the keeper's widow twenty pounds a year for her maintenance. The king alto being moved with compaffion, fent for him to Lambeth, and gave him a royal pardon and difpenfation to prevent all exceptions to his epifcopal character; but he prudently with- drew from the council hoard, where his advice had been little regarded before, as coming from a perfon of unfafhionableprinciples.- The
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