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Memoir of the Life and Writings of Thomas Cartwright; Including the Principal Ecclesiastical Movements in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Memoir of the Life and Writings of Thomas Cartwright Including the Principal Ecclesiastical Movements in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Author:Benjamin Brook General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Original Publisher: J. Snow Subjects: Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.... more »com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. REPLY TO WHITGIFT'S ANSWER TO THE ADMONITION. The foregoing chapter contained a detail of Dr. Whitgift's triumph over Mr. Cartwright, with the method he adopted to promote the welfare of the church. His zealous exertions, as he no doubt anticipated, were not long unrewarded. He had been preferred to the rectory of Fcversham, to a prebend in the cathedral of Ely, and to the mastership of Trinity College; but Archbishop Parker, the constant patron of such men, furnished him with a dispensation to hold another benefice, and, to remunerate his past services, and stimulate his future triumphs, he presented him to the deanery of Lincoln. While the puritan Reformers endured extreme sufferings,! the controversy against arbitrary power was conducted by the use of other weapons. Mr. Cartwright had not hesitated to charge Dr. Whitgift with oppressive severity,-which the latter attempted to refute. Soon after Mr. Cartwright's departure from Cambridge was published " An Admonition to the Parliament, for the Reformation of Church Discipline;" to which were annexed Beza's Letter to the Earl of Leicester, and Gaulter's to Bishop Parkhurst. The work contains the character of a Christian church; the manner of electing ministers, with their several duties, and their equality in government. It exposes the corruptions of the hierarchy, and the arbitrary proceedings of the bishops, and concludes with a petition to both houses of parliament that discipline more consonant to the word of God might be established by law. The attempt to procure an establishment...« less