Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-27

I 66F ne6Q- II tNiAllS VI Ii oullciAhs With
he possessed, as such were not traced, and
indeed have never yet been traced, with pre-
cision." That the King was under Christ,
sole head Of The Church was o doctrine
which they al. with one voice affirmed; but
these words had very different Specifications,
in different mouths, and in the same mouth
at different conjunciureS-
Rather than grant to the civil magistrate
! the absolute power Of Nominating spiritual
pastors. the ministers of the church OF Scot
land, in eur OWN time, resigned tn cir livings
by hundreds. The Church of England had
no such scruples- By the royal authority
alone were her prelates aPPointed: BY the
royal aufhority asoBe were her convoeations
summoned, regulated. Prorogaed and dissolved
Without the Royal sanction her canons
had no force. One of her articles of faith
was, that without royal consent ne %ecclesi-
a~sIical council could lawfully assemble.
Nor did the church erudge This extensive
power to her princes. By them she had
ottn cl:Isi into existence, Dursed thro'
a feeble infancy, guarded from bapists on
one side, and from puriiaBs on the other,
protected from PartianOenis which bore her
no good will, aud avenged on literary assail-
ants whom she found it hard to answer
Thus gratitude, hope, feaE. COMMON attach
ments, COMMON enullty, bound her, to the
throne. All her traditions, all her tastes
were nonarc!licaI- Loyalty became i point
Ut PROFESSIONAL hoAgr Among her clergy, the
peculiar badge which distinguished them at
once from :lle Caiginists and from papists-
The compromise arranged by Crannrr
had from the first been considered by Z
large body Of Protestants, as 4 scheme for
serving I~1 tnIste rs. as an attempt to
nnAe the worsllip OF the L.d With the wor-
sAip Of Raal, They were little disposed to
submit in nrLters Of Saith 10 any human
authority. They bad recently, ia reliance
Oh ,LcIr own interpretation of scripture.
risen nP against a church strong IL isAEe-
mortal antIIliiy an catholic CONSENT
Il was by DO common e~xertion OF intel
leclual ENERGY thai they had thrown Of the
yoke Of that gorgeous aud Internal supeassj-
ton, and it WIS not in vain 10 pect that
immediately after such an emancipation, they
woald patiently submit to a new spiritual
tyranny. 1t was not to be expected that
they would Immediately transfer IL an up
start authority the homage which they had
withdrawn from the Vatrcan that they would
submit their private Judgement to the au-
ttIurity OF 4 Church founded on private iudg-
ment alone, that they would be afraid to
dissent from teachers who themselves dis
sentep from what had lately been the univer-
sal faith OF Western Chris:ondom. 1t is
easy to conceive the Indignation which must
have been felt by bold and inquisitiVe spirits
rtuFViDn in nnVlV dr0IlIrQU frppdnf1 union
an Institution younger by many years than
thenselves-an Institution which had under
,heir own eyes. gradually received its form
from the passions aAd interests OF a court
began 10 iRitaic the lofty style of Rome.
Since these men Che Puritansl could
Dot be convinced it was determined
that they should be persecuted. Per
s~eculion produced its natural effects up
on them 50 we see that as soon as the
Church Of England had sufficient power the
noneonfurmist the Purit3Rs we're prosecuted,
And judging from the spirit that''Es She" mat
ifesis towards them Ill his last article, he 10
doubt wuHld renew the prosecutions had he
the civil Pow or ut his command. But thePuri-
tans being on the side Of truth and righteous
ness could bear this persecution with a
Christian spirit. Macauley says, "The
Puritans even in the depths OF the prisons to
which Elizabeth had sent them, prayed, and
with no simulated fervor, that she might be
kept from the dagger of the assassin"
He says further, 'The sentiments with
which these men regarded Elizabeth has de-
scended 10 their Posteriiy. The noncon-
iormists vigorously as she treated them have
as a body always venerated her memory"
Says Hume in his history of England, p.
III: 'sThese disputes which had been START
ed during the reign of Edward, were carried
abroad BY Protestants who fled from the
prosecutions of Mary; and as the zeal of
these men had received an increase from the
furious cruelty of their enemies, they were
generally inclined to carry their opposition
to the UTMOST extremity against the practices
al line Church of Rome. X + x On
the ACCESSION of Elizabeth they returned TO
to their native country, and being regarded
with general generation on account gf their
zeal and past sufferings, they veRtused t9 in.
sist on the establishment Of their projected
model nor want eountenaRce from many
considerable persona in the Queens council.
But the princess herself, SO lar from being
willing to despoi, religion Of the few arms-
ments and ceremonies which remained To- it !
ppas rather incliged ia bring tie public gror-
ship still neqrer to the Roman ritgQ!; and
she thought that The reformation hal already
gong tGe far in sslaking off t.qse foFHg and
o~b4eEsaHees. which without digtrgcting men
of more refined a~Rprehention, tend in a
very inRQeegt manner, to allure, to amuse,
and engage the vulgar. = = Scarcely any
.a,-r, koco.a LFI;..botk - 49, -ncta-t
her, carried higher, both in speculation End
practice the authority of the crown; and
the Puritans could not recommend themselves
worse to her favor than by intoxicating the
9fresisting Of restraining the prime
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1t is clear from history that the FurtqEs
left the Church Of England because of the
restraints imposed upon them. Says
ii minister in the Church of Eng |
land and Vicar OF Sandhurst. Berks, in his
of the Church of England vol. l, p.
on the liberty of the press, aud decreed that
no book should be published or printed against
the Q4een's injunctIons, that all offenders
should be pgaished by Imprisonment and for
of their bQoks, and that the wardens
Of the company Of stationery SHOULD be en-
powered Ia search all suspected places aud
10 eeize all obnoyioHs books. 1Ghig decree
signed by eight of the Priey Council. in
addition 10 seyea of the High Commiggioners.
Fhia arbitrary ,peasire sceeleraipd the open
separation of the neRconformists from the
Alter Ya;ling two Inoatha n the
hope that some tenderness might be shoWn
their scrupIes, several of the tepriv-
ed ministers held a consultation with Their
and followers. After prayer to God
and serious elaboration among themselves