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THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, 

 IV. 



Another 

 call of 

 Ministers. 



Another. 



His advice 

 concerning 

 the Univer 

 sity. 



ordered the Clergy at this meeting after this manner, &quot; That 

 . &quot; from henceforth you do not admit any man to preach, or 

 &quot; to read any lectures in any of your churches, but such as 

 &quot; you do know ; that do also in their own persons minister 

 &quot; the sacraments of Baptism and of the holy Communion, 

 &quot; according to the order prescribed in the Book of Common 

 &quot; Prayer. 



&quot; Ye shall make return of your answer to these articles 

 &quot; on this side the first day of March next coming, to Mr. 

 &quot; Good the registrar.&quot; 



In pursuance of which articles, February 6th following, 

 there was another call of the London Clergy by virtue of 

 the Council s letters. Then there were again precepts given 

 to mark the recusants of the Book of Common Prayer, or 

 such as refused to administer the sacraments after that or 

 der, or that only preached, but had no celebration of the 

 sacraments ; putting that work upon their curates, or as 

 signs, or that preached and used not the book, and so made 

 a schism. The church-wardens were called and sworn to 

 present all such. 



Now on the first of March, the Clergy was summoned 

 again, and met, according to the Council s letters before 

 mentioned, in pursuance of the six articles. Thus close was 

 the matter of conformity this year pursued ; and that be 

 cause of the dangerous schism that was now a breeding, and 

 the apprehension of the great evils that must needs ensue 

 upon that : while the Common Prayer was by some in part, 

 and by others wholly, laid aside, and the sacraments of the 

 Church disused, or shifted off to be performed by others 

 that were hired or procured. All which considerations 

 made both the Bishop and the Queen herself somewhat vi 

 gorous in the suppressing these men. And this quickening 

 of the London Ministers in their obedience to the ecclesiasti 

 cal laws went on the next year, as we shall see by and by. 



About this time the University of Cambridge was run 

 into Puritanism, and the Bishop was consulted with about it 

 by the Lord Burghley, the Chancellor thereof. For when, 

 in the beginning of March 1579, upon the motion of Dr. 



