bishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Bishop of Durham, and all other bishops of any bishoprics within the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, be, from and after September 5, 1646, wholly abolished and taken away; and all and every person and persons are to be thenceforth disabled to hold the place, function, or style of archbishop or bishop of any church, see, or diocess, now established or erected within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-on-Tweed; or to use, or put in use, any archiepiscopal or episcopal jurisdiction or authority whatsoever, any law, statute, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.' lands were at first mortgaged as a security for several large sums of money, which the Parliament borrowed at eight per cent. interest. Several members of Parliament, and officers of the army, afterward purchased them at low rates, but the bargain proved dear enough in the end. And surely it was wrong to set them to sale; the lands having been originally given for the service of religion, ought to have been continued for such uses, and the substance of the donors' intentions pursued, unless it appeared that too great a proportion of the national property had been settled in mortmain. But herein they followed the ill examples of the kings and queens of England at the Reformation. livings in the kingdom distributed among them; yet still they were dissatisfied for want of the top-stone to their new building, which was church power; the pulpits and conversation of the city were filled with invectives against the men in power, because they would not leave the Church independent on the State; the Presbyterian ministers were very troublesome, the Parliament being teased every week with church grievances of one kind or another; December 19, the lord-mayor and his brethren went up to Westminster with a representation of some of them, and a petition for redress. The grievan 1. "The contempt that began to be put upon the Covenant, some refusing to take it, and others declaiming loudly against it; they therefore pray that it may be imposed upon the whole nation, under such penalties as the houses shall think fit; and that such as refuse it be disqualified from all places of profit and trust. By the ordinance of November 16, it is far- The Presbyterians were now in the height of ther ordained, "that all counties palatine, hon- their power, the hierarchy being destroyed, the ours, manors, lordships, styles, circuits, pre-king their prisoner, and the best, if not all, the cincts, castles, granges, messuages, mills, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, parsonages, appropriate tithes, oblations, obventions, pensions, portions of tithes, vicarages, churches, chapels, advowsons, donations, nominations, rights of patronage and presentations, parks, woods, rents, reversions, services, annuities, franchises, liberties, privileges, immunities, rights of action and of entry, interests, titles of entry, conditions, commons, court-leets and court-barons, and all other possessions and hereditaments whatsoever, which now are, or within ten years before the beginning of the present Parliament were, belonging to the said archbishops and bish-ces were, ops, archbishoprics or bishoprics, or any of them, together with all chattels, deeds, books, accompts, rolls, and other writings and evidences whatsoever, concerning the premises, which did belong to any of the said archbishops, bishops, &c., are vested and settled, adjudged and deemed to be, in the real and actual possession and seizin of the twenty-four trustees mentioned in 2. "The growth of heresy and schism; the the ordinance, their heirs and assigns, upon trust pulpits having been often usurped by preaching that they shall dispose of the same, and the rents soldiers, who infected all places where they and profits thereof, as both houses of Parliament came with dangerous errors; they therefore shall order and appoint, i. e., for payment of the pray that all such persons may be forbid to public debts, and other necessary charges occa- preach as have not taken the Covenant, and sioned by the war, promoted chiefly by and in been regularly ordained, and that all separate favour of the said hierarchy, saving and except-congregations, the very nurseries of damnable ing all tithes appropriate, oblations, obventions, heretics, may be suppressed; that an ordinance and portions of tithes, &c., belonging to the said be made for the exemplary punishment of herearchbishops, bishops, and others of the said hie-tics and schismatics, and that all godly and or rarchy; all which, together with £30,000 year-thodox ministers may have a competent mainMy rent belonging to the crown, they reserve for tenance, many pulpits being vacant of a settled The maintenance of preaching ministers. The minister for want of it; and here," say they trustees are not to avoid any lease made for "we would lay the stress of our desires, and the three lives, or twenty-one years, provided the urgency of our affections." They complain, far said lease or leases were not obtained since the ther, of the "undue practices of country com month of December, 1641. They are empow-mittees, of the threatening power of the army, ered to appoint proper officers to survey, and take a particular estimate of all the bishops' lands, to receive the rents and profits of them, and to make a sufficient title to such as shall purchase them, by order of Parliament." By virtue of this ordinance, the trustees were empowered to pay, or cause to be paid, to the As- To satisfy the petitioners, the House of Comsembly of Divines, their constant salary allowed mons published a declaration, December 31, them by a former order of Parliament, with all "wherein they express their dislike of laytheir arrears, out of the rents, revenues, and prof- preachers, and their resolution to proceed against its belonging to the late Archbishop of Canter- all such as shall take upon them to preach or bury, till such time as the said lands and reve-expound the Scriptures in any church or chapel, nues shall happen to be sold. These churchHusband's Collection, p. 922. Rushworth, p. 377. Scobel, p. 100, 102, 103. and of some breaches in the Constitution; all which they desire may be redressed, and that his majesty's royal person and authority may be preserved and defended, together with the liberties of the kingdom, according to the Covenant." or any other public place, except they be ordained either here or in some other Reformed Churches; likewise against all such ministers and others as shall publish, or maintain by | Church, London, a zealous Presbyterian, who preaching, writing, printing, or any other way, became remarkable by a book entitled Gangræ anything against or in derogation of the church na, or a catalogue of many of the errors, heregovernment which is now established by author-sies, blasphemies, and pernicious practices of ity of Parliament; and also against all and this time; in the epistle dedicatory he calls every person or persons who shall willingly or upon the higher powers to rain down all their purposely interrupt or disturb a preacher in the vengeance upon these deluded people, in the public exercise of his functions; and they com- following language: "You have done worthily mand all officers of the peace, and officers of against papists, prelates, and scandalous ministhe army, to take notice of this declaration, and ters, in casting down images, altars, crucifixes, by all lawful means to prevent offences of this throwing out ceremonies, &c., but what have kind, to apprehend offenders, that a course may you done," says he, "against heresy, schism, be speedily taken for a due punishment to be disorder, against Seekers, Anabaptists, Antinoinflicted upon them." The House of Lords pub-mians, Brownists, Libertines, and other sects? lished an order, bearing date December 22, re- You have made a reformation, but with the refquiring the headboroughs and constables, in the ormation have we not worse things come upon several parishes of England and Wales, to arrest us than we had before, as denying the Scripthe bodies of such persons as shall disturb any tures, pleading for toleration of all religions and minister in holy orders, in the exercise of his worships; yea, for blasphemy, and denying public calling, by speech or action, and carry there is a God? You have put down the Comthem before some justice of peace, who is re- mon Prayer, and there are many among us that quired to put the laws in execution against them. are for putting down the Scriptures. You have February 4, they published an ordinance to pre- broken down the images of the Trinity, and we vent the growth and spreading of errors, here- have those who oppose the Trinity. You have sies, and blasphemies; but these orders not cast out bishops and their officers, and we have coming up to their Covenant uniformity, the many that cast down to the ground all minislord-mayor and common council presented an- ters. You have cast out ceremonies in the other petition to the two houses March 17, and sacraments, as the cross, kneeling at the Lord's appointed a committee to attend the Parliament Supper, and many cast out the sacraments themfrom day to day, till their grievances were re-selves. You have put down saints' days, and dressed, of which we shall hear more under the next year. many make nothing of the Lord's Day. You have taken away the superfluous maintenance of bishops and deans, and we have many that cry down the necessary maintenance of minis psalms taken away in some places, conceived prayer, preaching, and in their room anthems, stinted forms, and reading brought in; and now singing of psalms is spoken against, public prayer questioned, and all ministerial preaching denied. In the bishops' time popish innovations were introduced, as bowing at altars, &c., and now we have anointing the sick with oil; then we had bishoping of children, now we have bishoping of men and women, by laying on of hands. In the bishops' days we had the fourth com We have already accounted for the unhappy rise of the sectarians in the army when it was new-modelled, who were now grown so extrav-ters. In the bishops' days we had singing of agant as to call for some proper restraint, the mischief being spread not only over the whole country, but into the city of London itself: it was first pleaded in excuse for this practice, that a gifted brother had better preach and pray to the people than nobody; but now learning, good sense, and the rational interpretation of Scripture, began to be cried down, and every bold pretender to inspiration was preferred to the most grave and sober divines of the age; some advanced themselves into the rank of prophets, and others uttered all such crude, un-mandment taken away, and now all ten are tadigested absurdities as came first into their minds, calling them the dictates of the Spirit within them; by which the public peace was frequently disturbed, and great numbers of ignorant people led into the belief of the most dangerous errors. The Assembly of Divines did what they could to stand in the gap, by writing against them, and publishing a Detestation of the Errors of the Times. The Parliament also appointed a fast on that account February 4, 1645-6, and many books were published against the Antinomians, Anabaptists, Seekers, &c., not forgetting the Independents, whose insisting upon a toleration was reckoned the inlet to all the rest. The most furious writer against the sectaries was Mr. Thomas Edwards,* minister of Christ ken away by the Antinomians. The worst of the prelates held many sound doctrines and had many commendable practices, but many of our sectaries deny all principles of religion, are enemies to all holy duties, order, learning, overthrowing all, being whirligig spirits, and the great opinion of a universal toleration tends to the laying all waste, and dissolution of all religion and good manners. Now," says our author, "a connivance at, and suffering without punishment, such false doctrines and disorders, provokes God to send judgments. A toleration doth eclipse the glory of the most excellent Reformation, and makes these sins to be the sins of the Legislature that countenances them. A magistrate should use coercive power to punish and suppress evils, as appears from the example of Eli. Now, right honourable, though you do not own these heresies, but have put out several orders against them, yet there is a strange, unheard-of suffering of them, such a one as there hardly ever was the like under any *He was originally of the University of Cambridge, but in 1623 was incorporated at Oxford. At the beginning of the civil wars he joined the Parliament, embarked all that was dear to him in the cause of the people, whom he excited to prosecute the war by the strain of his prayers and sermons, and advan-orthodox Christian magistrate and state. Many ced money to carry it on.-Wood's Athena Oxonienses, vol. i., p. 846.-ED. sectaries are countenanced and employed in places of trust: there has not been any exem plary restraint of the sectaries, by virtue of any After this dedication there are one hundred and seventy-six erroneous passages collected from sundry pamphlets printed about this time, and from the reports of friends in all parts of the kingdom, to whom he sent for materials to fill up his book; however, the heretics are at length reduced under sixteen general heads. 1. Independents. 6. Arminians. 11. Perfectists. 2. Brownists. 7. Libertines. 12. Socinians. 8. Familists. 13. Arians. 3. Millenaries. 4. Antinomians. 9. Enthusiasts. 14. Antitrinitarians. 5. Anabaptists. 10. Seckers. 15. Antiscripturists. 16. Skeptics. The industrious writer might have enlarged his catalogue with papists and prelates, Deists, Ranters, Behemenists, &c., &c., or, if he had pleased, a less number might have served his turn, for very few of these sectaries were collected into societies; but his business was to blacken the adversaries of Presbyterian uniformity, that the Parliament might crush them by sanguinary methods. Among his heresies there are some which do not deserve that name; and among his errors, some that never grew into a sect, but fell occasionally from the pen or lips of some wild enthusiast, and died with the author. The Independents are put at the head of the sectaries, because they were for toleration of all Christians who agreed in the fundamentals of religion; to prove this, which they never denied, he has collected several passages out of their public prayers; one Independent minister (says he) prayed that Presbytery might be removed and the kingdom of Christ set up; another prayed two or three times that the Parliament might give liberty to tender consciences; another thanked God for the liberty of conscience granted in America; and said, Why, Lord, not in England? Another prayed, Since God had delivered both Presbyterians and Independents from prelatical bondage, that the former might not be guilty of bringing their brethren into bondage. The reader will judge of the spirit of this writer by the foregoing specimen of his performance, which I should not have thought worth remembering, if our church writers had not reported the state of religion from his writings. "I knew Mr. Edwards very well," says Fuller,* "my contemporary in Queen's College, who often was transported beyond due bounds with the keenness and eagerness of his spirit, and therefore I have just cause in some things to suspect him." He adds, farther, "I am most credibly informed, by such who I am confident will not abuse me and posterity therein, that * Appeal, p. 58. Mr. Herbert Palmer (an anti-Independent to the height), being convinced that Mr. Edwards had printed some falsehoods in one sheet of his Gangræna, proffered to have the sheet reprinted at his own charge, but some accident obstructing a second and third Gangræna, full of most bitter invectives and reproaches, till his own friends were nauseated with his performances. The Reverend Mr. Baxter, who attended the victorious army, mentions the Independents, Anabaptists, and Antinomians, as the chief separatists, to whom he adds some other names, as Seekers, Ranters, Behemenists, Vanists, all which died in their infancy, or united in the people afterward known by the name of Quakers; but when he went into the army he found “almost one half of the religious party among them orthodox, or but very lightly touched with the above-mentioned mistakes, and almost another half honest men, that had stepped farther into the contending way than they ought, but with a little help might be recovered; a few fiery, self-conceited men among them, kindled the rest, and made all the noise and bustle; for the greatest part of the common soldiers were ignorant men, and of little religion; these would do anything to please their officers, and were instruments for the seducers in their great work, which was to cry down the Covenant, to vilify parish ministers, and especially the Scots and the Presbyterians." Mr. Baxter observes, that "these fiery, hot men were hatched among the old Separatists; that they were fierce with pride, and conceit, and uncharitableness, but many of the honest soldiers, who were only tainted with some doubts about liberty of conscience and independency, would discourse of the points of sanctification and Christian experience very savourly; the seducers above mentioned were great preachers and fierce disputants, but of no settled principles of religion; some were of levelling principles as to the state, but all were agreed that the civil magistrate had nothing to do in matters of religion, any farther than to keep the peace, and protect the Church liberties." The same writer adds, "To speak impartially, some of the Presbyterian ministers frightened the sectaries into this fury, by the unpeaceableness and impatience of their minds; they ran from libertinism into the other extreme, and were so little sensible of their own infirmity, that they would not have them tolerated who were not only tolerable, but worthy instruments and mombers in the churches." Lord Clarendon says, that Cromwell and his officers preached and prayed publicly with their troops, and admitted few or no chaplains in the army, except such as bitterly inveighed against the Presbyterian government, as more tyrannical than Episcopacy; and that the common soldiers, as well as the officers, did not only pray and preach themselves, but went up into the pulpits in all churches, and preached to the people, who quickly became inspired with the same spirit; women as well as men taking upon them to pray and preach; which made as great a noise and confusion in all opinions concerning religion as there was in the civil government of the state. Bishop Bramhall, in one of his letters to Archbishop Usher, writes, that "the papists took Baxter's Life, p. 53. 1 Among the remarkable divines may be reckoned the reverend and learned Mr. Thomas Colman, rector of St. Peter's Church in Cornhill: he was born at Oxford, and entered in Magdalen College in the seventeenth year of his age; he afterward became so perfect a master of the Hebrew language, that he was commonly called Rabbi Colman. In the begin advantage of these confusions, and sent over ter for taking part with the Parliament, which above one hundred of their clergy, that had been he says was owing to his pride and vanity. educated in France, Italy, and Spain, by order The earl's countenance appeared stern and solfrom Rome. In these nurseries the scholars emn, but to his familiar acquaintance his bewere taught several handicraft trades and call-haviour was mild and affable. Upon the whole, ings, according to their ingenuities, besides their he was a truly great and excellent person; his functions in the Church; they have many yet death was an unspeakable loss to the king, for at Paris," says the bishop, "fitting up to be sent he was the only nobleman, perhaps, in the over, who twice in the week oppose one the oth-kingdom who had interest enough with both er; one pretending Presbytery, the other In- parties to have put an end to the civil war, at dependency; some Anabaptism, and others con- the very time when Providence called him out trary tenets. The hundred that went over this of the world. year," according to the bishop, "were most of them soldiers in the Parliament army."* But Mr. Baxter, after a most diligent inquiry, declares "that he could not find them out ;" which renders the bishop's account suspected. "The most that I could suspect for papists among Cromwell's soldiers," says he, "were but a few that began as strangers among the common soldiers, and by degrees rose up to some inferior of-ning of the civil war he left his rectory of Blyficers, but none of the superior officers seemed ton in Lincolnshire, being persecuted from such." The body of the army had a vast aver- thence by the cavaliers. Upon his coming to sion to the papists, and the Parliament took all London, he was preferred to the rectory of St. occasions of treating them with rigour; for, Peter's, Cornhill, and made one of the AssemJune 30, Morgan, a priest, was drawn, hanged, bly of Divines. Mr. Wood says he behaved and quartered, for going out of the kingdom to modestly and learnedly in the Assembly; and receive orders from Rome, and then returning Mr. Fuller gives him the character of a modest again. However, without all question, both and learned divine ;* he was equally an enemy Church and State were in the utmost disor- to Presbytery and prelacy, being of Erastian der and confusion at the close of this year principles; he fell sick while the Assembly [1646]. was debating the jus divinum of Presbytery; Among the illustrious men of the Parlia- and when they sent some of their members to ment's side who died about this time, was Rob-visit him, he desired they would not come to ert D'Evereux, earl of Essex, son of the famous favourite of Queen Elizabeth; he was educated to arms in the Netherlands, and afterward served the King and Queen of Bohemia for the recovery of the Palatinate. King Charles I. * Colman preached a sermon before the House made him lieutenant of his army in his expedi- of Commons, 30th July, 1645, on the Unity of the For this he gives tion against the Scots, and lord-chamberlain of Church and how to promote it. the household; but the earl, being unwilling to chief: "1. Establish as few things jure divino as can several directions, of which the following are the go into the arbitrary measures of the court in well be. Hold out the practice, but not the ground. favour of popery and slavery, engaged on the 2. Let all precepts held out as Divine institutions have side of the Parliament, and accepted of the clear Scriptures; an occasional practice, a phrase commission of captain-general of their forces, upon the by, a thing named, are too weak grounds to for which the king proclaimed him a traitor. uphold such a building. I could never yet see how He was a person of great honour, and served two co-ordinate governments, exempt from superiorthe Parliament with fidelity; but being of opin-ity and inferiority, can be in one state; and in Scripion that the war should be ended rather by treaty than by conquest, did not always push his successes as far as he might. Upon the new modelling of the army, the cautious general was dismissed with an honourable pension for his past services; after which he retired to his house at Eltham, in Kent, where he died of a lethargy, occasioned by overheating himself in the chase of a stag in Windsor Forest, September 14, 1646, in the fifty fifth year of his age. He was buried with great funeral solemnity in Westminster Abbey, October 22, at the public expense, both houses of Parliament attending the procession. His effigy was afterward erected in Westminster Hall, but some of the king's party found means in the night to cut off the head, and break the sword, arms, and escutcheons. Mr. Vines preached his funeral sermon, and gave him a very high encomium, though Lord Clarendon has stained his charac Parr's Life of Usher, p. 611. Ludlow, p. 186, or 4to edition, 1771, p. 79. an absolute determination till they heard what he had to offer upon the question; but his distemper increased, he died in a few days, and ambitious ensnarement, and I have cause. I sea ture no such thing is found that I know of. 3. Lay no more burden of government upon the shoulders of ministers than Christ hath plainly laid upon them; let them have no more hand therein than the Holy Ghost clearly gives them. The ministers will have other work to do, and such as will take up the whole man. I ingenuously profess I have a heart that knows better how to be governed than to govern; I fear an what raised prelacy and papacy to such height, and what their practices were, being so raised. Give us doctrine; take you the government. Give me leave to make this request, in the name of the ministry; give us two things, and we shall do well: give us learning, and give us a competency. 4. A Christian magistrate, as a Christian magistrate, is a governor in the Church. All magistrates, it is true, are not when they are, they are to manage their office under Christians; but that is their fault: all should be; and and for Christ. Christ hath placed governments in his Church. Of other governments besides magistracy I find no institution; of them I do. I find all government given to Christ, and to Christ as mediator; and Christ, as head of these, given to the Church. To rob the kingdom of Christ of the magistrate and his governing power, I cannot excuse, no, not from a kind of sacrilege, if the magistrate be His."-C. the whole Assembly did him the honour to attend his funeral in a body, March 30, 1646.* thrown, with several others, into a hole in the churchyard of St. Margaret's, before the back door of the lodgings of one of the prebendaries. Towards the end of the year died the reverend and pious Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs; he was educated in Cambridge, but obliged to quit the university and kingdom for nonconformity in the late times.* Upon his leaving England he was chosen minister of an English congregation at Rotterdam, with which he continued till the year 1642, when he returned to England, and became preacher to two of the largest and most numerous congregations about London, viz., Stepney and Cripplegate. He was one of the dissenting brethren in the Assembly, but was a divine of great candour, modesty, and charity. He never gathered a separate congregation, nor accepted of a parochial living, exhausting his strength in continual preaching, and other services of the Church. He was an excellent scholar, a good expositor, a popular preacher; he published several treatises while he lived, and his friends have published many others since his death, which have met with a general acceptance. It was said the divisions of the times broke his heart, because one of the last subjects he preached upon, and printed, was his Irenicum, or an attempt to heal divis ions among Christians. Mr. Baxter used to say, if all the Presbyterians had been like Mr. Marshal, and the Independents like Mr. Burroughs,. their differences might easily have been compromised. He died of a consumptive illness, November 14, 1646, about the forty-seventh About the middle of July died the learned Doctor William Twisse, vicar of Newbury, and prolocutor of the Assembly of Divines; he was born at Speenham-Land, near Newbury, in Berkshire; his father was a substantial clothier in that town, and educated his son at Winchester School, from whence he was translated to New College, in Oxford, of which he was fellow; here he employed himself in the study of divinity, with the closest application, for sixteen years together. In the year 1604 he proreeded master of arts; about the same time he entered into holy orders, and became a diligent and frequent preacher; he was admired by the universities for his subtle wit, exact judgment, exemplary life and conversation, and many other valuable qualities which became a man of his function. In the year 1604 he proceeded doctor of divinity, after which he travelled into Germany, and became chaplain to the princess palatine, daughter of King James I. After his return to England, he was made vicar of Newbury, where he gained a vast reputation by his useful preaching and exemplary living. His most able adversaries have confessed that there was nothing then extant more accurate and full, touching the Arminian controversy, than what he published; and hardly any who have written upon this argument since the publishing of Dr. Twisse's works but have made an honourable mention of him. The doctor was offered the prebend of Winchester, and several preferments in the Church of Eng-year of his age. land; the States of Friesland invited him to the professorship of divinity in their University of Franeker, but he refused all. In the beginning of the civil war he was forced from his living at Newbury by the cavaliers, and upon couvening the Assembly of Divines, was appointed by Parliament their prolocutor, in which station he continued to his death, which happened, after a lingering indisposition, about the 20th of July, 1646, in the seventy-first year of his age. He died in very necessitous circumstances, having lost all his substance by the king's soldiers, insomuch that, when some of the Assembly were deputed to visit him in his sickness, they reported that he was very sick and in great straits. He was allowed to be a person of extensive knowledge in school divinity, a subtle disputant, and, withal, a modest, humble, and religious person. He was buried, at the request of the Assembly, in the collegiate church of St. Peter's, Westminster, near the upper end of the poor folks' table, next the vestry, July 24, and was attended by the whole Assembly of Divines there his body rested till the restoration of King Charles II, when his bones were dug up by order of council, September 14, 1661, and * Church History, b. ix., p. 213. Wood's Athen. Oxon., vol. ii., p. 62. Anthenæ Oxon., vol. ii., p. 40, 41. He distinguished himself by his writings against Arminianism. The most learned of that party confessed that there was nothing more accurate, exact, and full, on that controversy, than his works. His plain preaching was esteemed good; his solid disputations were accounted, by some, better; and his pious way of living was reckoned by others, especially the Puritans, best of all.-Wood's Athena Ozon., vol. ü., p. 40.-ED. CHAPTER VIII. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSEMBLY UPON THEIR CON- THE REV. Mr. Charles Herle succeeded to the prolocutor's chair by order of Parliament, July 22, 1646, in the room of the late Dr. Twisse, when the discipline of the Church being pretty well settled, it was moved to finish their con fession of faith. The English divines would have been content with revising and explaining the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of Eng. land, but the Scots insisting on a system of their own, a committee was appointed to prepare ma terials for this purpose May 9, 1645; their names were, Dr. Gouge, Dr. Hoyle, Mr. Herle, Gataker, Tuckney, Reynolds, and Vines, with the Scots divines, who, having first settled the titles of the several chapters, as they now stand in their confession of faith, in number thirtytwo, distributed them, for greater expedition, among several sub-committees, which sat two He for some time sheltered himself under the hospitable roof of the Earl of Warwick.-Granger's History of England, vol. ii., p. 193, 8vo. This nobleman was a great patron of the Puritan divines; and not contented with hearing long sermons in their congregations only, would have them repeated at his. own house. Ibid., 116.-ED. |