"The Lord Chancellor's death (1591) much troubled and perplexed the Archbishop, fearing that new troubles would befall him and the Church." "After the death of Sir Christopher Hatton, Sir JOHN PUCKERING was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, of whom, because he lived not long, I shall not have occasion to say much: but for ought I ever heard, he shewed himself a friend to the Church, unto the Archbishop and his proceedings, and acknowledged him to have been, among his other good friends, a furtherer of his advancement. "SIR THOMAS EGERTON, Master of the Rolls, succeeded him, May 5, 1596. Her Majesty and the State had long experience of his integrity and wisdom, as may appear by the great places which he worthily held, being first her Highness's Solicitor, and then Attorney General. In which time, besides his many great and weighty services, he was very careful and industrious in labouring earnestly to suppress the aforesaid libellers; a lover of learning, and most constant favourer of the Clergy, and Church Government established, as also a faithful loving friend to the Archbishop in all his affairs.”* *� ��ཕ�������«ར་ར་ར་ར་ན་ TWELVE PURITAN PAMPHLETS. 1. "Whether it be mortall sinne to transgresse ciuill lawes, which be the commandementes of ciuill Magistrates. • Wordsworth, iv. 370. Since this sheet was set up at the press, Mr. D'Israeli's Quarrels of Authors have appeared, in which there is an entertaining, critical, and comprehensive account of this Controversy. 2. "The judgement of Philip Melancton in his Epitome of morall philosophie. "The resolution of D. Hen. Bullinger, and D. Rod. Gualter, of D. Martin Bucer, and D. Peter Martyr, concernyng thapparel of Ministers, and other indifferent thinges.” (***) Small 8°. pp. 100. black letter. Colophon. "Imprinted at London in Powles Churche-yarde, by Richard Jugge, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. Cum privilegio Regia Maiestatis." "An Admonition to the Parliament." This is in small black letter, written, according to a MS. note, by Mr. Field, Minister of Aldermary, London, assisted by Mr. Wilcox, and revised by several of the brethren, 1572. Two letters are annexed, one by Rodolph Gualter, Minister of the Church of God at Tigurin, to Dr. J. Parkhurst, 1566,- the other to E. G. Bishop of L. by Theodore Beza, Minister of the Church at Geneva, v. Cal. Jul. 1566: at the close of which are the following lines: "England, repent, Bishops relent, Returne while you have space, If you have any grace. Joyne now in one, that Christ alone, By scepter of his word, May beare the stroke, lest you provoke 3. "A second Admonition to the Parliament,” pp. 64. besides Preface. This the MS. note ascribes to Mr. Cartwright. 4. Certain Articles collected and taken (as it is thought) by the Byshops out of a little boke, entituled An Admonition to the Parliament, with an Answere to the same. Containing a confirmation of the sayde Booke in short notes. "Woe be unto them that speake good of cuill, and euill of good, whych put darknesse for light, and light for darknesse, that putte bytter for sweete, and sweete for sower. "The Prynter to the Reader. Thys worke is fynished, thankes be to God, Let them seeke, loke, and doe now what they can, But you wil maruel where it was fynished, And you shal know (perchance) when domesday is ended. Imprinted we know where and whan, Judge you the place and you can. J. C. J. S." On the back of this title. "If men be dumbe, sure stones shall speake, Let men resist, it forceth not, It stands when they shall quaile. When it of men is most opprest, Then God doth set in foote. 5. hee. You Prelates know how true thys is, You that can councell other men, God will correct, you knowe it well, Yeelde reason, why (none goode you haue) Not God the cause, he them requires, Thinke on the time reformde to be Repent, amende, shewe forth your loue, By helpe of God, by helpe of Prince, "The State of the Church of England, laide open "Psal. cxxii. 6. Pray for the peace of Hicrusalem, let them prosper that love "Revel. xiv. 9, 10. "And the third Angel folowed them, saying, with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his marke in nis forhead, or on his hand, the same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God." 6. This is not in black letter. It runs to sig. I 2. "A Demonstration of the trueth of that Discipline which Christe hath prescribed in his worde for the gouernement of his Church, in all times and places, ontill the end of the world. "Wherein are gathered into a plaine forme of reasoning the proofes thereof out of the Scriptures, the evidence of it by the light of reason rightly ruled, and the testimonies that have been giuen thereunto, by the course of the Church, certaine hundreths of yeares after the Apostles time, and the generall consent of the Churches rightly reformed in these latter times, according as they are alleaged and maintained in those several bookes that haue bin written concerning the same. "Matt. xxi. 38. "The husbandmen said among themselves, this is the heire; come, let vs kill him, and let vs take his inheritance. "Luke xix. 27. "Those mine enemies which would not that I shoulde raigne over them, bring hither, and slea them before me.” This consists of 104 pages, besides Dedication and Address to the Reader. A MS. note ascribes it to Mr. Uvidall. 7. "Informations, or a Protestation and a Treatise from Scotland. Seconded with D. Reignoldes his Letter to Sir Francis Knollis. And Sir Francis Knollis his Speach in Parliament. All suggesting the usurpation of Papal Bishops. |