Chap. IV. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 561 pofsis confiftedof ten articles, " r, That all chaplains of englifh regiments K. Charles L " in the Low Countries (hall be exactly conformable to the church of '633. " England. 2. That the merchants refiding there (hall admit of no miÇM " nifter to preach among them, but one qualified as before. 3. That " if any one after his fettlement among them proves a non-conformff, " he /hall be discharged in three months. q.. That the feats faEtories thall be obliged to the fame conformity. 5. That no minister abroad " shall fpeak, preach, or print any thing to the difadvantage of the eng- " lifh discipline and ceremonies. 6. That no conformift minister (hall " fubftitute a non -conformist to preach for him in the faétories. 7. That " the king's agents (hall fee the fervice of the church of England exaäly r` performed in the fatories. The lait articles forbid the englifh mi- `" nifiers in Holland to hold any clafiìcal affemblies, and efpecially not to " ordain minifters, becaufe by fo doing they would maintain a ftanding nurfery for non-conformity and fchifm." Thefe propofals were dif- 'patched to the faftories, and the bishop wrote in particular to Deft, that it was his majefty's express command, that their minifters thould conform themfelves in all things to the doftrine and difcipline of the church of England, and to all the orders prefcribed in the canons rubrick and li- turgy ; and that the names of fuch as were refractory should be Pent over to him. But it was not pof ible to fucceed in the attempt, becaufe molt of the englfh congregations being fupported by theslates, mutt by fo doing have run the hazard of losing their maintenance, and of being diffolved, as was reprefented to the king by a petition in the name of all the englifb minifters 'in the Low Countries. However though the bishop could not accomplish his defigns abroad, we (hall find him hereafter retaliating his difappointment upon the french and dutch churches at home. His lordship met with better fuccefs in Scotlandfor the present, as being 1633. a part of his majefty's own dominions. He had poffef ed the king with vast King's ps- notions of glory in bringing the kirk of Scotland to an exact conformity Scdana. with England; a work which his father had attempted but left impeded. The king readily fell in with the bishop's motion, and determined to run all hazards for accomplishing this important deign, having no lefs venera- tion for the ceremonies of the church of England than thebishop himself. There had been bishops in Scotland for fume years, but they had little more than the name, being fubjeft to an affembly that was purely prefby- terian. To advance their jurisdiction, the king had already renewed the high commiffion, and abolished all general affemblies of the kirk, not Claren. one having been held in his reign; yet [till (fays the noble hiftorian) there Vol. I. was no form of religion, no liturgy, nor the least appearance of anybeauty P. 81. ofholinefx. To redrefs thefe grievances, as well as to thew thefoots nation the pomp and grandeur of theenglfh hierarchy, his majefty refolves_ upon VoL. I. 4 C a pro-
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