The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…

BESIDES confuting some of the Seditious Doctrines of Thomas Cartwright, ¹who became famous by his Admonition to the Parliament; in the year following the Bishop said, ⟨p. 45⟩Stultitia nata est in corde pueri, ²& virga disciplinae fugabit illam. Which shows he was no encourager of Faction by Lenity and Toleration; tho he was a man of great moderation otherwise, and expressed a great sense of the Frailties of Mankind in other Instances; as appears by his Letter to Dr. Parkhurst when Bishop of Norwich. Let your Chancellor (saith he) be harder, but you easier; let him wound, but do you heal; let him Lance, do you Plaster; wise Clemency will do more good than rigid severity, one man may move more with an Engine, than six with the force of their hands. And accordingly he would often sit in his own Consistory with his Chancellor, hearing, considering, and sometimes determining Causes concerning Matrimony, Adultery, and Testaments, &c. not thinking it safe to commit all to the sole care and fidelity of his Chancellor and Officials. But tho as a Justice of Peace he often sate in the Courts of Quarter-Sessions, yet judgment were desired concerning some scruple of Religion, or some other such-like difficulty. So exact was his care, not to entangle himself with secular affairs; and yet not to be wanting to his duty in any case.

BESIDES confuting some of the Seditious Doctrines of Thomas Carwright, ¹who became famous by his Admonition to the Parliament; in the year following the Bishop said, ⟨p. 45⟩Stultitia nata est in corde pueri, ²& virga disciplinae fugabit illam. Which shews he was no encourager of Faction by Lenity and Toleration; tho he was a man of great moderation otherwise, and expressed a great sense of the Frailties of Mankind in other Instances; as appears by his Letter to Dr. Parkhurst when Bishop of Norwich. Let your Chancellor (saith he) be harder, but you easier; let him wound, but do you heal; let him Lance, do you Plaister; wise Clemency will do more good than rigid severity, one man may move more with an Engine, than six with the force of their hands. And accordingly he would often sit in his own Consistory with his Chancellor, hearing, considering, and sometimes determining Causes concerning Matrimony, Adultery, and Testaments, &c. not thinking it safe to commit all to the sole care and sidelity of his Chancellor and Officials. But tho as a Justice of Peace he often sate in the Courts of Quarter-Sessions, yet judgment were desired concerning some scruple of Religion, or some other such-like difficulty. So exact was his care, not to entangle himself with secular affairs; and yet not to be wanting to his duty in any case.