22 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, nesty, and bred in the Universities, who being dispersed 

 IL about the nation, might preach, and teach the ignorant 

 people ; for of this sort was a great want still. For many 

 of the old Incumbents and Curates were such as were fitter 

 to sport with the timbrel and pipe, than to take in their 

 hands the book of the Lord, as the preacher at the Bishop s 

 first ordination expressed it. A great number of these 

 cattle were lately deprived, as they deserved; and so the 

 more churches left destitute. Therefore on Ascension-day, 

 May 16th, in the year 1577, was a great ordination of 

 Ministers at Fulham by this Bishop ; and was his first or 

 dination ; when he appointed one Keltridg, formerly of 

 Trinity College in Cambridge, a notable preacher, to make 

 a sermon upon the occasion : which he did from 1 Tim. 

 iii. 1, 2, 3. It is a true saying, If a man desire the office of 

 Bishop, lie desireth a good work. A Bishop therefore must 

 be itnreprovable, &c. This sermon he afterward printed, 

 and dedicated unto the Bishop. In it he addressed himself 

 to his Lordship against the vicious old Popish Clergy, yet 

 in the Church, but undermining it, &quot; humbly craving of his 

 &quot; Honour, whom God in his eternal counsel had placed 

 &quot; over them, the Levites, to rub and raze out all the stock 

 &quot; of Jezebel, to pluck up and deface them, who had no 

 &quot; title to the true priesthood, to rid the kingdom of those 

 &quot; headless fellows, who having of a long time served Peor, 

 &quot; and offered up the first-fruits of their youth to Acheron, 

 &quot; were then compelled to lie grovelling in the Church of 

 &quot; God, and in the darkness wherein they had loitered, and 

 &quot; choaked up the people with chaff and superstition, 1 &quot; &c. 

 And those that were then ordained he exhorted, &quot; That for 

 &quot; supply of preaching in the kingdom, they would scatter 

 &quot; themselves through every angle and quarter of this realm 

 &quot; in several congregations, that all countries might hear 

 &quot; their voice, and every part thereof might glorify the 

 &quot; Lord. And moreover he desired them, nay, charged 

 &quot; them in the Lord Christ, that they would not be of di- 

 &quot; vers minds, but that they would teach one God, and one 

 &quot; Christ, whom he had sent; sowing abroad no new and 



