8 5 8 A Review of the principal fads objeVied to the great value for the church of Geneva ; he and Mr. Carelefs, another martyr, ftrenuoufly maintained the doctrine of perfeverance, as depend- ing upon the divine purpofe, and not upon the contingency of man's will. But as I have obferved already, Mr. Prynne has collected the fentiments of the reformers fo fully on this head ; and Mr. Hickman in his anfwer to Dr..Heylin's quinquarticular hiftory, that there can be nooccafion for further evidence. I (hall therefore difmifs this article, with the tefti- monies of two of thofe very learned bishopswho reprefented the church of England at the fynod of Dort, and maintained the doctrine ofuniver- 1'rynnds fai redemption. " I do confidently avow [lays bishop Hall] that thole Can other cc opinions [ f Arminius] cannot fandwith the doëtrtne of the church " of England." To which bishop Davenant replied, " I know that no " man can embrace arminianifm in the dot-trines of predßination and of " grace, but he mull defers the articles of the church of England : Nor " in the point ofperfeverance, but be mull varyfrom the received opinions " of our bß approved dotlors in the Englifh church." fOf the eerie- After a difíertation on the pofture of kneeling, and the manner of re- etnenrf ceiving perfons to the communion, with which the hi/lorian has no con- thelurchofcetn, our author proceeds to the GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH. "Mr. England. " N's next objetlion to king EDWARD'S reformation (fayshe) is theform of P. 53- " ecclefiafical government. And here again the goodqueen chofe not only the u molt cbriflian, but the moll moderate and catholick fcheme." No objection of Mr, N's nor of the firft let of puritans, who would have been content with fome amendments in that fcheme, which even the bishops themfelves prayed and wifhed for ; but it is a little odd to fee a writer glorying in the catholicifm of a form of church government, fortified with ads of uni- formity, injunëtions, advertifements, articles of enquiry, oaths ex Ircio, an high comtniffion, and various penal laws againft diffenters, produttive of the ruin of great numbers of families. The puritans might have been as rigorous, had the power been in their hands, but neither party had much reafon to boaft of their catholicifm. Sentiments of After a long quotation from bishop Bancroft, for the fuperiority of bi- tbe re er- fho s above reib tens Mr. N. is introduced as extreamly and ofa PA mersconcern- p p Y s find ing eye the die R IT Y among the clergy, andas taking too muchpains in that coup. Though tinSlianofthe the reader will obferve, he has never once declared his own fentiments. order a h` But, furely it was an exc f ofzeal(lays this writer) to prefs thepious refär- prtßs. mers and king EDWARD'S ORDINAL into thisfervice. This indeed he has P. 58. done, not from any zeal in the caule, but becaufe he apprehended it was their opinion, that there were but two orders of church officers in holy . ripture, BISHOPS and DEACONS, and confequently that BISHOPS and PRIESTS were but different ranks or degrees of thefame order, or difrent names
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