666 The HTSToRy of the PURITANS. Chap. VIII. X. Charles I. indecent and provoking language under thefe and the like titles ; Prelatical 16t v Epifcopacy notfrom the Apfles. Lord Bi flaops nót the Lord's Bifhops. Short View of the Prelatical Church of England. A Comparifbn between theLi- turgy and theMali Book. Service Book no better than aM fofPottage, &c, Lord Brook attacked the order of bithops in a treatife of the Nature of Ep f opacy, wherein he refleéts in an ungenerous manner upon the low pedigreeof the prefent bench, as if nothing except a noble defcent could qualify men to fit among the peers. Several of the bithops vindicated their pedigree and families, as bifhop Williams, Moreton, Curie, Cooke, Owen, &c. and archbifhop Ufher defended the order, in a treatife entitled, The 1poflolìcal Izftitution of Epifcopacy; but then, by a biphop, his lord- fhip underftood no more, than a !fated prefident over an affembly of Bp. Hall's Thebmoft,celebrated ate liwriter on the thefe the eftablifhment, willing s the learn- divine tight ed and pious bifhop Hall, who at the requeft of archbifhop Laud had. eP.TaatY' publifhed a treatife entitled,. EPISCOPACY OF DIVINE RIGHT, as has been related.. This reverend prelate, upon the gathering of the prefent form, appeared a fecond time in its defence, in an humble remonftrance to the high court ofparliament ; and fometime after, in a defenfé of that remonftrance, in vindication of the antiquity of liturgies and of diocefan epifcopacy. fwerñy The bi.fhop's remonfrance was anfwered. by. a celebrated treatife un_. der the title of 'SmMECTYMN VV s:, a fiftitious word made up of the inn- teal letters of the names of the authors (viz.) Stephen Marfhal, Edmund Calamy, Thomas flung, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurftow. When the bifhop had replied to their book, thefe divines publifhed a: vindication of their ltnfwer ta.the humble remonftrance; which being an appeal to the legiflature on both fides, may be fuppofed to contain the merits of the controvert-y, and will therefore deferve the reader's, at-- tention. The debate was upon there two heads;; Atiroto of L Of the antiquity of liturgies, or forms of prayer, the u ono- tier a1, Of the apoftolical.inftitution.,of diocefan epifcopacy. antiquity of liturgies. . The bifhop begins, with liturgies, by which, he underftands certain' Bp, Hall- pr f ribed and limitedfirms of prayer, compofedfor thepublicfirvice of the church, and appointed to be read atall times ofpublic worfhip. The anti- quity of thefe, hislordfhip derives down fromMofes, by an uninterruptect . fuccefíiots to theprefent time. "God'speople, Pays he, ever lince Mo- e' fs's day:conftantly.pradifed..a fet form, and put it over to the times of " the
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