wealth*; and at another time stir ring heaven and earth against the bishops, for the continuance, not the original enactment, of a few indifferent ceremonies, merely because they chose to think, that those ceremonies, rather than another Directory for ceremonies of their own, would operate fatally against the spirit of the Gospel? Well might Mr. Brook quote from Strype, "It is marvellous how much these habits were abhorred by many honest, well meaning men; who styled them antichristian ceremonies, &c." It is marvellous, on the one hand, how their judgments should have been so misled, as to think that they had either right or power to bring the whole nation under the Geneva Cloak; or, on the other hand, how their consciences should have been so misinformed as toimagine that no pure Gospel could issue from beneath a surplice, a tippet and hood. It was certainly not marvellous, that "300 scholars in St. John's college should throw away their surplices with one consent," (p. 25.); and we marvel if their Euclids and syllabuses did not idly float after them in the Cam. But that grave and solid divines, professing godliness, and claiming to themselves the meekness of wisdom, should have made it a turning point with themselves as to preaching the pure and reformed religion of Jesus, under the wing of an acknowledged Protestant government, and a learnedly orthodox episcopacy, that "the popish government and ceremonies" (which after all were not of Popery, but long prior to it), "should be left indifferent, and some liberties indulged in the use of the common prayer,” (p. 20.) does, we own, make us marvel, and that greatly! Some," we are told, "did in part comply, in hopes of the removal of these grievances at some

future period;" and we should marvel much if either they or their parishes were the worse for the compliance. And so far from owning ourselves indebted to the superior wisdom, piety, or constancy of those who did not follow the example, it is a marvel to us, that they saw not at the time what the plainest understanding, if unbiassed, can now see in their proceedings; 1st, that in rejecting a milder whilst they would have agreed to a stricter imposition, they were in fact forging future and heavier chains for the consciences of the nation; 2d, that in every appeal they made to Government for regulating those impositions, they in fact recognized the power which enforced submission to them; 3d, that in consequence in every departure from the final determination of the Government, except where the word of God lay against the express ceremony itself, (as in the case of worshipping images, a case which they could never prove against the Protestant forms), they were guilty, by their own acknowledgment, of rebellion against the state; 4th, that therefore, by a most singular infelicity, they esta blished an inseparable association, in the minds of men, between purity in religion and disorder in the state; 5th, that their very doctrines, on which at first all were agreed in the main, must in time share the prejudice, raised against their discipline; 6th, that therefore, every additional imposi tion of forms, every departure from pure doctrine, which they succes sively complained of in their adversa ries, was ultimately chargeable upon themselves; 7th, that such preju dice against their doctrines and against their cause was, in the nature of things, likely to be perpe tual; so that in all succeeding ages dissension and division were almost sure to exist in the Church of Christ; and a plausible argument would be furnished to the enemies of truth, as if its friends were the

enemies of the state; and whereas till then it had been calumny, that Christians "turn the world upside down:" from thenceforward it would come to look like truth; and the bitter spirit, and implacable language in which their opposition was too often acted, would for ever cast an indelible slur, (as it has done to this day), upon all pretenders to vital religion.

It should never be forgotten, that the earliest persecutors of the Puritans were, like themselves, Calvinists in doctrine. None more rigid, as the Lambeth Articles testify, than Whitgift himself. It was not til 60 years after these discussions about discipline began, that the deeper doctrines of that school were prohibited from the pulpit: when, as Fuller quaintly observes, a kind of " sermon-surfeit" had taken place; and, by a strange and mischievous transposition, the people heard of nothing but the duties of the court; the court of nothing but the duties of the people." This curious species of Antinomianism was in time suspected to grow out of the favourite doctrines carried to excess : and if, after that suspicion, the bishops and the court inclined to the low Arminian school, we leave it to the world to judge who at least shared the blame of the change. At any rate let not low and secular principles of religion be supposed at the bottom of the Puritanical oppressions, when Puritanical pertinacity, in all human probability, laid the foundation for these. If bishops who had forfeited all but their lives by opposing Popery under Queen Mary; if kings and queens who had been nursed with favour in the lap of Protestantism, and even Puritanism, according to Mr. Brook, both suddenly turn about when in power to the side most opposite to Puritanism, we really must look further for the cause, than to the predilection of either for Popery, or for the low doctrines of later Protestantism. We must look for it in the convicCHRIST. OBSERV. No. 162.

tion they felt of the total impossi bility of introducing so rigid a code of doctrine and discipline into so wide, so diversified, so free, perhaps so ignorant, and so immoral a nation and government as that of England. We must look for it in their firm belief of the sacred origin of Episcopacy, in opposition to the alleged jus divinum of Presbytery. We must look for it in their more correct and liberal views of a church-establishment, as requiring indeed strict submission to what it does ordain, but as leaving the greatest possible latitude in its ordinances, whether to men of stricter principles to carry instruction to its greatest height of purity, or to men of lesser principles not to rebel against its discipline; in short, as conciliating all parties. And if, in their doctrinal views, we are to look for any cause of their conduct, those doctrinal views, we must recollect, they had originally in common with their adversaries. If violence was added occasionally to severity, arrest and imprisonment to suspension and deprivation, and frequent personal abuse and invective to all the rest,-these, we have too manifest proof, they shared likewise with the Puritans; and since they had nothing else in common, but originally their Calvinistic creed, let Mr. Brook, if he pleases, attribute their common violence to that. We shall only hint at the possibility, that that creed, not yet fully exorcised from the spirit of Popery and crudely derived by some otherwise eminent reformers from the popish schools, may have produced an exasperated state of feeling on both sides, from which modern Calvinists will do well to prove their exemption. And whilst we equally shrink from the haughty and towering attitude of episcopal despotism, and the self-applauding and vindictive tone of Puritan me nace, whatever sanction each may claim from their common orthodoxy of sentiment; taught in a better age, we are bold to say, that genume 3 G

Christianity, and therefore real Protestantism, disclaims them both; and that to neither are we indebted, except by accident, for those in comparable blessings of a mild or

thodox establishment, together with a safe and full religious toleration, which divines of other times and other schools at length devised. (To be continued.)

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