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Bedfordshire Justices adopted at Ampthill." In 

 this charge he both justifies and enforces the 

 persecution of dissenters as necessary to " bring 

 them to a sense of their duty by the blessing 

 of God for that 'afflictio dat intellectum. '" 

 He died at Buckdon and was buried in the 

 chancel of the Parish Church there, near to the 

 body of Bishop Sanderson. By his will he be- 

 queathed some of his books to Queen^s College 

 and some to the University of Oxford. His por- 

 trait "was bequeathed by Bishop Cartwright of 

 Chester, to be hung up and kept for ever in the 

 provost's lodgings." 



WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH 



(1602-1644). 

 " Thy commandment is exceeding broad." 



He was the son of an Oxford mercer, and 

 was educated at the Grammar School in Oxford, 

 and became a Fellow of Trinity College in that 

 university in 1628, and was ordained in 1638. 

 His fame rests on his book The Religion of 

 Protestants, the full title being " The Religion of 

 Protestants, a Safe Way of Salvation, or an Answer 

 to a Book entitled ' Mercy and Truth ; or, Charity 

 Maintained by Catholiques.' " The writer pleads for 

 the right of private judgment, and declares it is 



