Chap. IX. 7he HIS T 0 RY of the PuRITANS. " fchool-maflers or leClurers till fuch time - that none iliould be King " obliged to· read the apocrypha --that parents might have liberty to Cha 6 rles II. h • • 11 • j h I 73· " " dedicate their own children in baptifm--t at mmtuers m1g lt preac ~· " where fomebody elfe who had the room might read the common- " prayer.-- that minill:ers be not obliged to give the facrament to fuch " as are guilty of fcandalous immoralities -- nor to refufe it to thofe " that fcruple kneeling --that perfons excommunicate may not be im- " prifoned and ruined -- and that toleration be given to all confcien- " tious diifenters -- " Thefe propofals bei ng communicated to the earl of Orrery were put into the hands of I.Jilbop kforley, who returned them without yielding to any thi ng of importance. The motion was al[o Baxter, part revived in the houfe of commons; but the iliortnefs of the feffions put a III. p. 140. ll:op to its progrefs. Befides, the court bifhops feemed altogether indifpofed to any conc.:ffions. · This year put an end to the lives of two confiderable non-conformill: D.atb ofMr divines; Mr. William Whitaker, the ejected minifier of St. Mary Mag- Will. Whit· dalen Bermonc(fey; [on of Mr. Jer. Whitaker: A divine of great learn- aker. ing in the oriental languages. He was an eloquent preacher, and a good man from his youth. While he was at Emanuel College he was univerfally beloved ; and when he came to London generally ell:eem– ed. for his fweet difpofition. He was firtl: preacher at Hornchurcb, and then at the place from whence he was ejeCled. He afterwards prooch– ed to a feparate congregation as the times would permit, and died in the year 1673. Mr. James Janeway M. A. was born in Hertjor~fhire, and ll:udent ofAnd of Mr; Chrijl College Oxford. He was afterwards tutor in the houfe of Mr. Janeway. Stringer at Wind/or; but not being fatisfied with conformity, he opened a feparate meeting in Rotherhithe, where he preached to a numerous congregation with great fuccefs. He was a zealous preacher, and fervent in prayer, but being weakly, his indefatigable labours broke his conflitution, [o that he died of a confumption March 16, 1673-4, in the thirty-eighth year of his age. The revocation of the indulgence, and the difpleafure of the court a- Severity of gaintl: the diifenters, for deferting them in their defigns to prevent the tb~ court a– palling t he tffl aCl, let loofe the whole tribeof informers. The papills being gdaiffimjl the Y t enters rf-- exc\uded from places of trull:, the court had no tendernefs for protellant non- vived. conformifis; the judges therefore had orders to quicken the execution ofState Tracts, the laws againfl: them. The ell:ates of thofe of the befi quality in Vol. III. P· eac~ county, were ordered to be feized. The mouths of the high church ~~~ter's pulpzteers were encouraged to open as loud as poflible: One in his fermon Life, part before the houfe of commons told them, that the non-conformifl:s ought II!. P· 153; not to be tolerated, but to be cured by vengeance. He urged them to fet VoL. II. 4 U fire
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