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Romantic Biography of the Age of Elizabeth (1842)
Romantic Biography of the Age of Elizabeth - 1842 Author:William Cooke Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 103 ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT AND DR. CARTWIUGHT. Thk history of the Puritan controversy would be incomplete without some notice of the two greatest champions t... more »hat appeared on either side; they may fairly come within the scope of this work if it be recognised that there is such a thing as the romance of controversy, which all who have waded through the lumber of antiquated disputations will readily acknowledge. In Whittingham's contest with Sandys, the external forms of religion were at issue, but the questions of discipline and church-government were only obscurely mooted. Cartwright may be considered the great leader of those who sought to introduce the discipline of Geneva, which he had learned to admire during a visit to that city. Uefore leaving England he had been hostile to the use of cap, surplice, and ecclesiastical ceremonies, he returned home with a stern enmity to the whole system of Knglish church-government. Cartwright was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, of which Whitgift was the Master, and also Vice-chancellor of the Univcrsity ; circumstances, therefore, placed them in such a position, that Whitgift had no alternative but to be the follower or the adversary of the propositions which Cartwright brought from Geneva. There is little interest in the squabbles of a college; it may, or it may not be true that the Master of Trinity was jealous of a Fellow, whose sermons were so popular that when his turn came at St. Mary's the sexton was obliged to take down the windows; this is a matter of perfect indifference, for Whitgift's first proceeding, the expulsion of Cartwright from his fellowship, was rendered necessary by the refusal of the latter to take priest's orders, as he was bound to do by the statutes. Neither is the Vice-chancellor to be blamed for prohibit...« less