The History of the Puritans, Or, Protestant Nonconformists : From the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688; Comprising An Account of Their Principles; Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; And the Lives And Ch
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18 * Answer to Dr. Bridges, p. 45, 46. t MS., p. 838. t Ibid., p. 482. Double-beneficed men without . . .21 Simple preachers (as the survey calls them) 10 Dumb, or unpreaching ministers . . 17 Resident preachers, abiding in London only 19 With the survey they offered divers reasons to prevail with the court to appear for them; as. Because the laws of the realm have provided very well for a learned preaching ministry; whereas by the account above, it appears that many are pluralists and nonresid...ents, others il- literate, being brought up to trades, and not to learning, and others of no very good character in life : because divers of the principal preach- ers of this land have of late been put to silence: because of the prevailing ignorance and impiety that is among the common people for want of better instruction ; and because we now pay our money and dues to them that do little or nothing for it : but the aldermen were afraid to interpose.* Such was the scarcity of preachers, and the thirst of the people after knowledge, that the suspended ministers of Essex petitioned the Parliament, March 8th, 1587, for some remedy.
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