Chap. VI. 'lbe HISTORY of the PuRITANS. 617 " popular, by preaching againfl: the fins of princes and courts, which the Ch King 1 I · h b r: h h d ,_ · I " arlcs ' " people dehghted to ear, ecau1e t ey a no ware 1n .t 1em. 166 r. The bi!hops and clergy who fucceeded the preibyt~r!ans w~r.e of. a~ quite different !lamp; moft of them were very mean dtvtnes, VICIOUS m And of tht . I 'ell d l' f h . b h. I tl b fears bps. am/ their moras, 1 e an neg tgent o t e1r cures; y w IC 1 means 1ey e- new clergy. came obnoxious to the whole nation, and were hardly. capable of fopparting their authority through the reign of king Charles JI. even with the affifl:ance of the civil power. Bi!hop Burnet adds, that they werj;! P· 158. mean and defpicable in all refpects; the worfi preachers he ever heard ; ignorant to a reproach, and many of them openly vicious; that they were a difgrace to their order, and to the facred functions, and were indeed the dregs and refufe of the northern parts. The few who were above contempt or fcandal were men of fuch violent tempers, that they were as much hated as the others were defpifed. In Ire/mzd the hierarchy was reftored after the fame manner as in Epifcopacy S 1 d l k' b h' I · · h f h' rejlored in co!tan ; t 1e mg y IS etters patent In ng t o IS power to no- Ireland. m in ate bi!hops to the vacant fees, iifued his royal mandate to Dr. Bram- Ken. p. 440, ball archbi!hop of Armagh, and Dr. 'Ta)'lor bifl1op of Do~vn and Go- 441. nor, by virtue of which .they confecrated two archbi!hops, and ten bi- !hops, in one day. His grace infifted on the re-ordination of thofe who had been ordained in the late times without the hands of a bil11op, but with this foftning claufe in their orders. Non annihilantes priores ordines (ji quos habuit) nee validitatem, aut invaliditatem eorundum de– terminantes, multo minus omnes ordinesJacros eccliflarum forinfecarum condemnantes, quos propriojudicio relinquimus: SedJolummodo fopplentes quicquid prius defuit per canones eccliflce anglicanre requifitum--i.e. " Not " annihilating his former orders (if he had any), nor determining con- " cerning their validity or invalidity, much lefs condemning all the fa- " cred ordinations of foreign churches, whom we leave to their own " judge, but only fupplying what was wanting according to the canons " of the church ofE'zgland --" Without fuch an explication as this ,lb. p. 44g~ few ot the clergy of Ireland would have kept their fiations in the church. On the I 7th of May the lords fpiritual and temporal, and the commons in parliament aff'embled in Ireland, declared their approbation and high efteem. of epifcopal government, and of the book of common-prayer, accordmg to the ufe of the church of England; and thus the old confiitution in church as well as fiate, was refl:ored in the three kingdoms. T~e french minifters, who had been tools to perfuade the englijh pref- Conduli of bytenans to reftore the king without a treaty, went along with the tor- the french rent, and complimented the church of England upon her re-efiab\iih-protejlants, ment; they commended the liturgy, which they formerly treated with VOL. II. 4 K con~
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