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books, and fuch as had in them mathematical figures or other diagrams :
under pretence that they tended to Popery or Conjuration. However good
and praife-worthy he might have been in other reipeds, herein his conduit
deferved the fevered: reprehenfion.
The bigotry and miftaken zeal of reformers, have done infinite milchief
to the interefl of knowledge and literature. Many manufcrlpts, and
monuments of antiquity, have hence been deflroyed, which were highly
worthy of prefervarion, either for their beautiful execution, or the light
they were calculated to throw on the hiftory, fentiments, and manners of
former ages. However profperous and uninterrupted often, in this life,
may be the courfe of the wicked; Providence feldom fails to punifh,
“ here, upon this bank and jhoal of timef the good man’s tranfgreffion.
Soon after Queen Mary’s acceffion to the Crown, Dr. Cox was dripped of
his preferments; and in 1^53 committed to the Marfhalfea: he was,
indeed, foon releafed from his confinement; but, forefeeing the perfecution.
likely to enfue, he refolved to quit the realm, and retire to fome place
where he might enjoy the free exercife of his religion, according to the
form eflablifhed in the reign of King Edward.
He went firfl to Strafburgh in Germany, where he heard with great
concern of the rafh proceeding of fome of the Englilh exiles at Franckfort,
who had rejected the Englifh Liturgy, and fet up a form of their own,
framed after the French and Geneva models. In 155 q he removed to
Franckfort, to oppofe this innovation, and to have the Common-Prayer-
Book fettled among the Englifli congregration there, which he had the
fatisfadion to accomplifh. Then he returned to Strafburgh for the fake of
converfing with Peter Martyr, with whom he had contracted an intimate
friendfhip at Oxford, and whom he loved and honoured for his great
learning and moderation. After the death of Queen Mary, he returned to
England, and was one-of thofe Divines who were appointed to revife the
Liturgy. Fie preached often before Queen Elizabeth in Lent; and, in
his Sermon at the opening of her firfl Parliament, exhorted them to
reflore Religion to her primitive purity, and to banifh all Popifh innovations
books, and fuch as had in them mathematical figures or other diagrams :
under pretence that they tended to Popery or Conjuration. However good
and praife-worthy he might have been in other reipeds, herein his conduit
deferved the fevered: reprehenfion.
The bigotry and miftaken zeal of reformers, have done infinite milchief
to the interefl of knowledge and literature. Many manufcrlpts, and
monuments of antiquity, have hence been deflroyed, which were highly
worthy of prefervarion, either for their beautiful execution, or the light
they were calculated to throw on the hiftory, fentiments, and manners of
former ages. However profperous and uninterrupted often, in this life,
may be the courfe of the wicked; Providence feldom fails to punifh,
“ here, upon this bank and jhoal of timef the good man’s tranfgreffion.
Soon after Queen Mary’s acceffion to the Crown, Dr. Cox was dripped of
his preferments; and in 1^53 committed to the Marfhalfea: he was,
indeed, foon releafed from his confinement; but, forefeeing the perfecution.
likely to enfue, he refolved to quit the realm, and retire to fome place
where he might enjoy the free exercife of his religion, according to the
form eflablifhed in the reign of King Edward.
He went firfl to Strafburgh in Germany, where he heard with great
concern of the rafh proceeding of fome of the Englilh exiles at Franckfort,
who had rejected the Englifh Liturgy, and fet up a form of their own,
framed after the French and Geneva models. In 155 q he removed to
Franckfort, to oppofe this innovation, and to have the Common-Prayer-
Book fettled among the Englifli congregration there, which he had the
fatisfadion to accomplifh. Then he returned to Strafburgh for the fake of
converfing with Peter Martyr, with whom he had contracted an intimate
friendfhip at Oxford, and whom he loved and honoured for his great
learning and moderation. After the death of Queen Mary, he returned to
England, and was one-of thofe Divines who were appointed to revife the
Liturgy. Fie preached often before Queen Elizabeth in Lent; and, in
his Sermon at the opening of her firfl Parliament, exhorted them to
reflore Religion to her primitive purity, and to banifh all Popifh innovations