5 I Th¢ STORY Of the PURITANS. Chap. Ill. K. Charles I. were called in, and the authors and publifhers queftioned in the ftar- 1C6Z ' chamber and high comm. n, for engaging in a controverfy prohibited by the government. By thefe methods effe&ual care was taken, that the puritan and calvinian writers fhould do their adverfaries no harm. Bithop Laud with two or three of his chaplains, undertaking to judge of truth and error, civilityand good manners, for all the wife and great men of the nation, in doing which they were fo fhamefully partial, that learning and induftry were difcouraged, men of gravity and great experience not be- ingableto perfuade themfelvesto fubmit their labours tobe mangled and torn inpieces by a few younger divines, who wereboth judges and parties in the Complaint of affair. At length the bookfellers being almoft ruined, preferred a petition to the bookfel- the next parliament [1628.] complaining, that the writings of their belt Ru[hw, authors were Rifled in the preis, while the books of their adverfaries [papifts p. 655. and arminians] were publifhed, and fpreadover the whole kingdom. Thus Cheney's Collections Theologicce, an arminian and popilh performancewas Prynne, licenfed, when the learned Dr. Tw7e's anfwer to Arminius, though p. 166, 167, wrote in Latin, was fiopt in the preis. Mr. Montague's book, entitled &.e. God's love to mankind, was licenfed and publifhed, when Dr. Twi/Je's reply to the fame book was fupprefled. Many affidavits ofthis kind were made againft Laud athis trial, by the molt famous calviniflical writers, as will be feen hereafter. And in fa- The cafe was juft the fame with regard to books againft popery; the your of po- queen and the roman-catholicks mutt not be infulted, and therefore all offenfive paffages, fuch as calling the pope antichrift, the church of Rome NO true church, and every thing tending to expofe images in churches, crucifixes, penance, auricular confefion, and popifh abfolution, muff be ex- punged. Sir Edward Deering compares the licenfers oftheprefi to the ma- nagers of the index expurgatorius among the papifls, " who clip the tongues " ofInch witnetTeswhofe evidence they do not like; in likemanner(fags he) " our licenfers fupprefs the truth, while popifh pamphlets fly abroad. cum " privilegio; nay they are fo bold as to.deface the molt learned labours of " our ancient and belt divines. But herein the Roman index is better than "purs, that they approve of their own eftablifhed doctrines ; but our innovators alter our fettled doltrines, and fuperinduce points repugnant and contrary. This I do affirm, and can take upon myfelf to prove." Gentlemen, Terrible were the triumphs of ARBITRARY POWER over the liberty citizens, and and property ofthe fubject, in the intervals between this and the fucceeding ethers, em parliament ; gentlemen of birth and character, who refufed to lend what prifoned, on l' > g ' account ofthe money the council was pleafed to affefs them, were taken out of their loan. houfes and imptifoned at a great diftance from their habitations ; among Ruthw. thefe were Sir Thomas Wentworth, Sir Walter Earle, Sir john Strange- P 418' 420. ways Sir Thomas Grantham, Sir Harbottle Grimftone, yohn Hampden, 428. 473 ' EStD
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