guilty of what they charge him with, 't is no blemish on the English Baptists, who neither approved of any such method, nor did they receive baptism from him."- Vol. 1. p. 98-100.

NOTE J, TO PAGE 339.

REV. ROBERT PARKER AND DR. WILLIAM AMES.

Governor Bradford, in his Dialogue, says: "We, some of us, knew Mr. Parker, Doctor Ames, and Mr. Jacob, in Holland, when they sojourned for a time in Leyden, and all three boarded together, and had their victuals dressed by some of our acquaintance." Young's Chronicles, p. 439; Neal, 11. 74, 126.

The Rev. Robert Parker was a learned and devout nonconformist; a faithful and successful preacher, and a celebrated writer. Cotton Mather calls him, "one of the greatest scholars in the English nation." He wrote very ably and learnedly against Bishop Bilson's doctrine of the actual descent of Christ into the regions of the damned; also on the Sign of the Cross in Baptism; and a work entitled "De Politica Ecclesiastica," in which he maintained, that whatever related to the church of Christ must be deduced from Scripture; that Christ alone is the doctor or teacher of the church, in matters of religion; and that the Scriptures are a perfect directory in all ecclesiastical matters whatsoever. He was grievously persecuted by Bancroft, and was obliged to flee to Holland to escape imprisonment. He was born in 1571, and died at Doesbury, Holland, in 1614.- Brook, 11. 237-40; Neal, 11. 69, 96; Magnalia, vol. 1. p. 433, Hartford, 1820. Parker's only son, Thomas, emigrated to New England in 1634. He was one of the first settlers, and became the first pastor of Newbury, Mass., in 1635. Mag. 1. 133-35; Allen's Biog. Dictionary.

The Rev. William Ames, D.D. was one of the most learned divines and copious writers among the nonconformists of his day. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, under the celebrated William Perkins. While a fellow of the College, he preached against playing cards and dice, which gave such offence to the college dignitaries, that he was compelled to leave the University, to avoid expulsion. Having incurred the enmity of

Archbishop Bancroft, by his nonconformity, he fled to Holland for refuge. But even there, hierarchal enmity followed him; and he was driven from the Hague, and prevented from receiving the professorship of divinity in the University of Leyden, by English intrigue. The attempt was also made to prevent him from having the same appointment in the University of Franeker, though without success; and he filled that chair with great acceptance, for twelve years. Among his best known works are "A Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies," and his "Medulla Theologica." In the former, he says: "We stand upon the sufficiency of Christ's institutions for everything pertaining to Divine worship; and that the word of God, and nothing else, is the only standard in matters of religion." He was born in 1576, in Norfolk, and died, while colleague with the celebrated Hugh Peters, of the Independent church in Rotterdam, November 14th, 1633. His widow and children emigrated to New England. - Brook, 11. 405408; Neal, 11. 69, 280; Hanbury, 1. 533. Mather calls Ames "one of the most eminent and judicious persons that ever lived in this world"; and says that his purpose was, to have emigrated to New England; "but he was hindered by that Providence which afterwards permitted his widow, and his children, and his library, to be translated hither." - Magnalia, vol. 1. p. 215. William Ames, a son, was a graduate of Harvard College, in the class of 1645. Magnalia, 11. 23.

NOTE K, TO PAGE 894.

ARTICLES FROM THE CHURCH AT LEYDEN, 1617.

[S. P. O. AMA. AND W. IND. VIRG.]

Seven Artikes which ye Church of Leyden sent to ye Counsell of England to bee considered of in respeckt of their judgments occationed about theer going to Virginia Anno 1618.

1 To y confession of fayth published in ye name of ye Church of England & to every artikell theerof wee do wth ye reformed churches wheer wee live and also els where assent wholy

2 As wee do acknolidg ye docktryne of fayth theer tawght so

do wee ye fruites & effeckts of ye same docktryne to ye begetting of saving fayth in thousands in ye land (conformistes & reformistes) as ye ar called wth whom also as wth our bretheren wee do desyer to keep sperituall communion in peace & will pracktis in our parts all lawful thinges

3 The King's Majesty wee acknolidg for Supreme Governer in his Dominion in all causes and over all parsons, and y none maye decklyne or apeale from his authority or judgment in any cause whatsoever, but y in all thinges obedience is dewe unto him, ether active, if the thing commanded be not agaynst God's woord, or passive yf itt bee, except pardon can bee obtayned.

4 Wee judg itt lawfull for his Majesty to apoynt bishops, civill overseers, or officers in awthoryty onder hime, in ye severall provinces, doses, [dioces], congregations or parrishes, to oversee ye Churches and governe them civilly according to ye Lawes of ye Land, untto whom ye ar in all thinges to geve an account & by them bee ordered according to Godlines

5 The authoryty of ye present bishops in ye Land wee do acknolidg so far forth as ye same is indeed derived from his Majesty untto them and as ye proseed in his name, whom wee will also theerein honor in all things and hime in them.

6 Wee beleeve yt no sinod, classes, convocation or assembly of Ecclesiasticall Officers hath any power or awthoryty att all but as ye same by ye Majestraet geven unto them.

7 Lastly, wee desyer to geve untto all Superiors dew honnor to preserve ye unity of ye speritt wth all y feare God, to have peace wth all men what in us lyeth and wheerein wee err to bee instructed by any. Subscribed by

JOHN ROBINSON

and

WILLYAM BRUSTER.

[It is difficult to believe that John Robinson wrote the original of the above, though his name is first affixed to the document.]