[58]"Holy Dying," ch. I. sec. II. p. 270.
[59]"The Golden Grove."
[60]See in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Thierry and Theodoret" the characters of Bawder, Protalyce, and Brunhalt. In "The Custom of the Country," by the same authors, several scenes represent the inside of an infamous house—a frequent thing, by the way, in the dramas of that time; but here the boarders in the house are men. See also their "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife."
[61]Calvin, quoted by Haag, II. 216, "Histoire des Dogmes Chrétiens."
[62]These were the Supralapsarians.
[63]"The Byble, nowe lately with greate industry and Diligece recognised" (by Edm. Becke), London, by John Daye and William Seres, 1549, with Tyndale's "Prologues."
[64]Examination of Mr. Axton: "I can't consent to wear the surplice, it is against my conscience; I trust, by the help of God, I shall never put on that sleeve, which is a mark of the beast."—Examination of Mr. White, "a substantial citizen of London" (1572), accused of not going to the parish church: "The whole Scriptures are for destroying idolatry, and everything that belongs to it."—"Where is the place where these are forbidden?—In Deuteronomy and other places;... and God by Isaiah commandeth not to pollute ourselves with the garments of the image."
[65]These expressions continually occur: "Tenderness of conscience"—"a squeamish stomach"—"our weaker brethren."
[66]The separation of the Anglicans and dissenters may be dated from 1564.
[67]1592.