Chap. V.. 7/;e HI S T 0 R Y of the PuR IT AN s. 149 ferred is apparent to all men, by the prefent diflracted condition of the K. Charles 1. h d . r.. • !644· Ghmc an umver11t1es. ~ The king's declaration for prohibiting preaching on the fi ve controver- Preaching on ted points, was an artifice of the archbiihop's to introduce the arminian the five errors, by yreventing orthodox minifl:ers from awakening th? m_inds_of ~;;~~e, P· . people agamfl: them. And whereas he avers, that he has earned 1t w1th 172, 51 r. an even hand, and could bring witnelfes from OJfford to prove it, we challenge him to name one fcbolar or miniiler that was ever impriloned, deprived, filenced, profecuted in the high commiffion, or cail: out of favour on this account; there was indeed one Rainiford an arminian, who · in the year 163 2. was obliged publicly to confefs his error in di fobeying his majefl:y's declaration, and that was all his puniihment; whereas great numbers of the other fide have been perfecuted, fo as to be forced to abandon their native country, at a time when the rnoft notorious and declared arminimzs were advanced to the befl preferments in the church, as Montague made a biihop, Haifnet an archbil11op, Linc!Jey promoted to two biihopricks; Potter to a deanry, and Duppa to a deanry and bilhoprick, and made tutor to the prince, &c. The managers objected further to the archbifhop, " that having ob~ t!bufe of the " tained the fole licenfing of the prefs, by a declaration of the ilar-cbam- prefsby pro– ... ber in the year 1637· he had prohibited the reprinting fundry ortho~ 'J;;'1 '~g book: • " dox books formerly printed, and fold by authority, as the Geneva bible·Pr~c~n:~g~: , " with notes, Gellibrand's protiflant almanack, in which the popi ih faints 18o, 182, . " were left out of the kalendar, and protefl:ant martyrs put in their places; &c. " that his chaplains had refufed to licence the co7ife/Jzim if faith of the pa- " latine churches, Fox's boo:< of martyrs, biihop Jewel's works, fome " part of Dr. Willet's, and the Hiflory if the Gun-J>.owder- 'Treqfon, as " was attefl:ed by the derks of Stationers-Ha!!, and this reafon given for " the reful:-tl, that we were no.t now fo angry with the papifl:s as formerly, " and therefore it was not proper to exafperate them, there being a de- " fign on foot to win them by mildnefs. That the archbiihop bad fup- By cajlratinu : " prelfed fundry new books written againfl: arminianifin and popery, and tbem. " " had cafl:ra ted others, expunging fuch paffages as reflected npon the fi.J- " perfl:ition and idolatry of that church;" a large catalogue of which the · commons produced; many authors appeared in maintenance of this part of the charge, and among others Dr. Featly, Dr. C!arke, Dr. Jones, Mr. Ward, Prynne, P•'· &c. It was faid in particular, " that he had expunged divers paifJae9257, 258• . " which bore hard upon the papiils out of the collection of publ.ic pray~rs &c. · ·: f01: a general fail: ~gaintt the plague; and that in the .prayer-book ape pomted by authonty for the sth of No·v. infl:ead of root out that baby- ,, lonijh and antichriflian feet, whqfe religion is rebellion, whqfe faith is . "faction, and whoje praelice is murdering ofjoul and body; .he had alter- " ed,
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