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Satires by Joseph Hall, With the Illustrations of T. Warton, and Additional Notes by S.w. Singer
Satires by Joseph Hall With the Illustrations of T Warton and Additional Notes by Sw Singer Author:Joseph Hall General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 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.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: The account which this distinguished and virtuous prelate gives of the Hard Measure dealt out to him by the Parliament, being tt recital of some of the most extraordinary events of his time, may be subjoined to this Memoir of his early Life with great propriety The relation embraces an interesting account of the persecution of the Bishops by the Parliament, and a very curious picture of the ungovernable fury of the Puritanic Iconoclasts. BISHOP HALL'S HARD MEASURE. Nothing could be more plain then, upon the call of this parliament and before, there was a general plot and resolution of the faction to alter the government of the church especially, the height and insolency of some church governors, as was conceived, and the ungrounded imposition of some innovations upon the churches, both of Scotland and England, gave a fit hint to the project. In the vacancy, therefore, before the summons, and immediately after it, there was great working secretly for the designation and election as of knights and burgesses, so especially (beyond all former use)-, of the clerks of convocation ; when now the clergy were stirred up to contest with, and oppose their diocesans, for the choice of such men as were most inclined to the favour of an alteration. The parliament was no sooner sat than many vehement speeches were made against established church government, and enforcement of extirpation, both root and branch; and because it was not tit to set upon all at once, the resolution was to begin with those bishops which had subscribed to the canons then lately published, upon the shutting up of the former parliament, whom ...« less