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CHAP. After all that I have said here concerning our Prelate s 

 learning, we may take some notice of his judgment and 



Some of his opinion in a few things that occur. There was a sort of people 

 concfrning even in his time, (like our modern Quakers,) who counted 

 r r s iousmat ~ it idolatry to pull off the hat, or give reverence even to 

 Quakers princes. These were, I suppose, of the sect of the Anabap 

 tists in those days. Of whom thus did our Divine give his 

 opinion : &quot;I think it no idolatry, as some men use to term 

 &quot; it, either to bare the head or bow the knee to the chiefest 

 &quot; minister of God, [the Prince;] yea, if thou dost it not, 

 &quot; thou makest an idol of thyself, while thou liftest up thy 

 &quot; baseness to that height, that thou wilt not stoop where 

 &quot; thou oughtest, nor give honour where thou shouldest. 

 &quot; What is else to make an idol of thyself, but to honour 

 &quot; thyself where thou oughtest not ; and to pull down God s 

 &quot; majesty, [represented by the Prince,] where thou should- 

 &quot; est not?&quot; 



His opinion He was once of opinion, namely, when Queen Elizabeth 

 lands! PS fi rst began her reign, concerning Bishops lands and incomes, 

 that a good share of their temporalties should come into the 

 Queen s hands ; partly to maintain her wars, and partly to 

 build schools, and to be a maintenance for preachers in 

 every parish, and superintendents in every city. This he 

 expressed thus, turning his speech to the Bishops in those 

 Harbo- times, &quot; Come off, ye Bishops; away with your superfluities; 

 &quot; yield up your thousands; be content with hundreds, See.&quot; 

 as was mentioned before. This was a principle embraced 

 and taken up by many such as favoured the Gospel from 

 the times that Henry VIII. seized the lands of the abbeys; 

 when the shew was, that those revenues, idly and luxuri 

 ously employed, should come to the Crown for better uses ; 

 as to be laid out upon maintaining the King s wars without 

 taxing the subject; furthering of learning by building a 

 great many schools, founding more bishoprics, and such like 

 charitable donations. But the courtiers about the King 

 soon subverted those good purposes, by obtaining those de 

 means to themselves, and a very poor share thereof disposed 

 according as was pretended. And Bishop Aylmer after- 



