224K. Charles I. 1646. ~' Smtiments of the Lon· donminif ters. 7be HISTORY of the PuRITANS~ VoL. U. fJ:he reverend Mr. Price, Dr. Smith, Dr. Staunton, Dr. Hoyle, Mr. Bayly, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Young, Mr. Cawdrey, Mr. Aili, Mr. Gibfon, Mr. Good, Mr. Vines, Mr. Seaman, Mr. Chambers, 'Ihe reverend Mr. Corbet, Mr. Dory, Mr.Salway, Mr. H ardwicke, Mr. Langley, Mr. Simpfon, Mr. Conant, Mr. De la March, Mr. Byfield, Mr.Herle, Mr. De la Place, Mr. Wilfon, Mr. Reyner, Mr. Gower. The divine who entered his di!Tent was Mr. Lighifoot, with whom Mr. Colman would have joined, if he had not fallen iick at this junCture and died . The difcuffing the remaining queftions, engaged the affembly from May till the latter end of July, and even then they thought it not fafe to prefent their determinations to parliament for fear of a praemunire; up– on which the city divines at Sion college took up the controverfy, in a treatife entitled, '!'he divine right if Church Government, by the LoN– DON MINISTERs. Wherein they gave a diftinCl: anfwer to the feveral queries of the houfe of commons, and undertake to prove every branch of the prefbyterial difcipline to be jure divino, and that the civil magifl:rate had no right to intermeddle with the cenfures of the church. And to iliew the parliament they were in earne£1:, they refolved to fiand by each othe~, and not comply with the prefent eftablilhment, till it was delivered from the yoke of the civil magifl:rate; for which purpofe they drew up apaper if reafons, and prefented it to the lord-mayor, who having advifed with the common council, fent a deputation to Sion.Co!– lege, offering to concur in a petition for redrefs, which they did accord– ingly, though without effeCl: ; for the parliament taking notice of the combination of the city minijlers, publiilied an order June 9· requiring thofe of the province of London to obferve the ordinance relating to church government, enjoining the members for the city to fend copies thereof to their feveral pariilies, and to take effeClual care that they were immediate· Thejr paper ly put in execution. Upon this the minifters of Londo11 and Wejtmilyler if conjideramet tions and cautiws.
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