Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 2—The Church of the CommonwealthStoughton, John
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Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 2—The Church of the Commonwealth
Stoughton, John
Great Britain -- Church history
glory and dress that she had, be in these evil times taken from her,
yet I honour and reverence above all the other churches of the world;
for she bears upon her, more signally than any other that I know does,
the marks of Christ, which, when all is done, will be our greatest
glory."[335]
Dr. Morley, in company with Cosin, attended the English Court in the
city of Paris in the year 1651.[336] After being engaged in the
education of Hyde's family during part of their exile, at a period when
they were "in great want already, and likely to be in more and more,
even to a very great extremity, if God in mercy did not provide for
it by some extraordinary means, beyond all visible probability,"--he
became chaplain at Heidelberg to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, at a
salary of £50 per annum, with permission "to officiate to the Queen's
family according to the liturgy of the Church of England, without
any subordination to the classis." He had been a friend of Falkland,
of Chillingworth, and of Waller, and before the wars was thought to
favour the Puritans. Burnet says he was doctrinally a Calvinist, and
was pious and charitable, but he also speaks of him as extremely
passionate, and full of obstinacy--a statement which Baxter confirms
in his account of the Savoy disputations.[337] He had in early days
been "one of Ben Jonson's sons," a circumstance which accords with his
life-long reputation for brilliant wit. That gift, always dangerous,
is particularly so to a clergyman; and Morley, who is said to have
been "keen, but inoffensive," though admired by his friends for his
companionable qualities, was condemned by many for social habits and
a tone of conversation unbecoming a Christian minister.
[Sidenote: _Basire._]
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