Chap. VI. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 623 lived in retirement till this time, he withdrew with Tome feleet friends K. Charles I. to Holland, and fettled at Arnheim in Gelderland, where he continued r63, till the beginning of the long parliament. Philip Nye M. A. educated in Magdalen Hall Oxon, and a popular Mr. Nye. preacher at St. Bartholomew Exchange, London. Mr. JeremiahBurroughs, a molt candid and moderate divine, edu- Mr. Bur- cated in Cambridge, and afterwards a famous preacher to two of the lar- roughs. geft congregations about London, viz. Stepney and Cripplegate. Mr. William Bridge, M. A. and fellow of Emanuel College Cambridge ;. Mr. Bridge. he was firft minifter in E//ex, and afterwards fettled in the city of Norwich, in the parifh of St. George Tomland ; where he continued till he was filenced for non-conformity by, bifhop Wren, in the year 1637, and excommunicated. Mr. Sydrach Sympfon, educated in Cambridge, and afterwards a cele- Mr. Symp- brated preacher in London. Thefe were afterwards the five pillars of the ton. independent or congregationalparty, and were diftinguifhed by the name of the denting brethren in the affembly of divines. Several gentlemen and merchants of figure difpofed_ of their effects, . and went after them into exile, as Sir Math. Boynton, Sir WilliamCon liable, Sir Richard Salting/lon, Mr. Lawrence, afterwards lord prefident of the council, Mr. Andrews, afterwards lord -mayor of London, Mr. Afke, fince a judge, Mr. Bouchier, Mr. fames, Mr. White, and others. The Rates received them with great humanity, granting them the ufe of their churches at different hours of the day, with the liberty of ringing . a bell for public worfhip, though they did not approve of the dutch dif cipline, or join in communion with their churches. Great was the damage the nation fuftained by thefe removals; Heylin'ss re- Heylin obferves, " The fevere prefling of the cerimonies made the marks. " people in many trading towns tremble at a vifitation, but Life ofLaud " when they found their firiving in vain, and that they had loft the P. 343. 3451 " comfort of the lecturers, who were turned out for not reading the " fecond,fervice at the communion table in their hoods and furplices, " and for ufing other prayers betides that of the fifty-fifth canon, it was " no hard matter for thofe minifters to perfuade them to tranfport them- " (elves into foreign parts ; The fun (laid they) thins as comfortably " in other places, and the fun of righteoufnefs much brighter; 'tis better to " go and dwell in Gofhen, find it where we can, than tarry in the midfi' " offuch Egyptian bondage as is among us ; thePanful corruptions of the " church are nowgrownfò general, that there is no place free from the contagion ; thereforego out ofher my people, and be not partakers of her t' fins." And hereunto, they were encouraged by the dutch, who chofe- rather
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