Chap. III. ?he HISTORY of .the : PURITANS. 517 and therefore he would take the catife into his own hands and loon after K Chariest. diffolved the parliament. 16m_f Though the arminian controverfy was thus wrefled out of the hands Conferences- of the parliament, it was warmly debated without doors; Montague was between cal attacked inprint byDr. Carleton bifhop of Chichefier, Dr. Sutliffe dean of vinJls and Exeter, Dr. Featly, Dr. Goad, Mr. Ward, Burton, Yates, Wotton, Prynne; PYne ss'" and Fran. Rufe Efq; &c. Conferences were appointed to 'debate the Cant.Doomd point, Of the pea. , ility of the eletis falling fromgrace. One was at rrk p. 158, 154- Houfe, Feb. r 1, I 625-6. before the duke of Buckingham, earl of Warwick, Fulter,B.XL and other lords ; Dr. Buckeridge bifhop of Rockier, and Dr. White dean P.524. ofCarle, being on one fide and Dr. Moreton bifhop ofCoventry, and Dr. Preflon on the other. The fuccefsof the difpute is varioufly related ; but the earl of Pembroke faid, that none went from thence 1lrminians, fave thofe who came thither with the fame opinions. Soon afer, Feb.. 17th. Ib. p, 525: there was a fecond conference in the fame place, Dr. Whiteand Mr. Montague on one fide, and Dr. Moreton and Prelims on the other ; Dr. Preon carried it clear at firfi, by dividing his adverfaries, who quickly perceiving their error, unitedtheir forces (fays my author) in ajoint oppo- fition to him ; but upon the whole, thefe conferences ferved rather to encreafe thedifferences than abate them. The king therefore iffued out a proclamation, containingvery exprefs commands not to preach or difpute upon the controverted points of arminianifm. It was dated ran. 24, 1626. andPets forth, " That the king will admit of no innovations in the dot trine, King puts a4 " difcipline, or government of the ,church, and therefore charges all his end to the " fubjeáts, and efpecially the clergy, to ublifh or maintain in reach- COnrroverJy, J P Y gY, P l' Rufhw. ing or writing, any new inventions or opinions; contrary to the faid p. 412. Ó° do6trine and difcipline eflablithed by law, affuring them, that his majefly Bib. Regia. " will proceed againf all offenders againft this order, with all that feverity their contempt fhall deferve, that by the exemplary punifhment of a " few, others may be warned againf falling under the jufl indignation of 1 their fovereign." One would have thought this proclamation to be in favour ofCalvin )Yn,. Re raint of but the executionof it being in the hands of Laud, and the bithops of his the press in party, the edge was turned againf the puritans, and it became (fays Ruff- áminán sa,_ worth) the flopping of their mouths, and gave an uncontrouled liberty to R.uthw. the tongues and pens of the arminian party. Others were of opinion, that P. 413. Laud and Neileprocured" this injunction, in order to have an opportunity P aián. to.opprefs the calvinswho should venture to break it, while the difobe- dience of the contrary party fhouldbe winked at. The puritans thought they might fill write in defence of the received do6trine of the thirty-nine articles, but the prefs being in the hands of their adverfaries, Tome of their Prynne, - books were fuppreffed, tome were caftrated, and others that got= abroad p. 158, 559. were
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