Chap. V. 2'heHISTORY ófthe PURITANS. 571 merely a civil, not an ecclefzaflical declaration enjoined by any canons or au- K. Charles I. thority of the church, no ecclefiaftical court could take cognizance of it. 1633 All which Mr. Snelling offered to the cotnmiffioners in writing, hut the y' archbifhop would not admit it, laying in open court, that who/beverJhould make fuck á dfence, itfháuld be burnt before hisface, and he laid 6v the heels. Upon this he was perfonally and judicially admonifhed to read the de- claration within three weeks, which he refufing, wasfufpended ab scio & beneficio. About four months after he was judicially adwonifhed again, and refilling to comply, was excommunicated, and told that unlefs he conformed before the fecond day of next term, he fhouid be deprived ; which was accordingly done, and he continued under the Sentence many years, to his unfpeakable damage. " It were endlefs to go into more particulars ; howmanyhundred godly Ib. p.153; minifters in this and other diocefes (lays Mr. Prynne) have been fuf- " pended from their miniftry, fequeftered, driven from their livings, " excommunicated, profecuted in the high commiflion, and forced. to " leave the kingdom for not publifhing this declaration, is experimentally " -known to all men." Dr. Wren bifhop of Norwich fays, that great numbers in his diocefe had declined it, and were fufpended ; that fore had fince . complied, but that 1 i11 there were thirty who peremptorily re- fufed and were excommunicated. This the bithop thinks.a fmall number, although if there were as many in other diocefes the whole would amount tonear eight hundred. To resider the Common prayer book more unexceptionable to the .papifis, ?trerarlons and more diftant from puritanifm, the archbifhap made fundry alterations in thefer- in the later editions, without the fandtion of convocation or parliament. In Vcae book. the coiled for the royal family, the princefs Elizabeth and her children Cant. were left out, and thefe-words were expunged, O God, who art thefather p' 111' fua. ofthine elebl, and of theirfeed; as tending towards particular eleftion or predeftination. In the prayer for the fifth of November were thefe words, root out that antichriflian.and babylonijh fa, which fay of jerufalem, down with it even to the ground. Cut of thole workers ofiniquity, whofe religion is rebellion, woof faith isfrae'lion, whofe prahlice is murdering both foul and body; which in the laft edition are thus changed, root out the antichr/ian and babyloni/h fed OF THEM, which,fay ofJerufalem, down with it. Cut ofthofe.workers ofiniquity, who turn religion into rebellion, &c. The de- fign.of which alteration was to relieve the papifts, and to turn the prayer againft the puritans, upon whom the popifh plot was to have been fa- thered. In the epifile for Palmfunday, inftead of IN the name of yefus, as it was heretofore, it is now according to the Taft tranflation, AT the name of yefus every knee (hall bow. But it was certainly very high pre- futnption, for :a fingle clergyman or any number of them, to alter a 4 D 2 fervice
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