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Called up, by message from Lord Bruncker and the rest of my fellows, that they will meet me at the Duke of Albemarle's this morning; so I up, and weary, however, got thither before them, and spoke with my Lord, and with him and other gentlemen to walk in the Parke, where, I perceive, he spends much of his time, having no whither else to go; and here I hear him speake of some Presbyter people that he caused to be apprehended yesterday, at a private meeting in Covent Garden, which he would have released upon paying L5 per man to the poor, but it was answered, they would not pay anything; so he ordered them to another prison from the guard.
The bishop, or some distinguished presbyter, to whom he cautiously delegated the powers of preaching, harangued, without the danger of interruption or reply, a submissive multitude, whose minds had been prepared and subdued by the awful ceremonies of religion.
"And is there anything further?" I inquired. The comedy was beginning to weary me, it was so one-sided. "I am in no particular hurry," the rogue answered, his sardonic smile returning. "It is so long since I have chatted with people of my kind." I scowled. "Pardon me, I meant from a social point of view only. I admit we would not be equals in the eye of the Presbyter."
'A Presbyter of the Church of England, writing in the first year of this century, said that, except among the Evangelical clergy, it was almost confined to that season. Secker also, in the middle of the century, expressed a similar regret.
Now, it is clear from the Ignatian epistles, writings of the second century, whoever may have been their author, that the Christians of those days were accustomed to hold Eucharistic meetings other than those over which a presbyter or elder presided. The practice is indeed reproved by the writer, but in exceeding gentle tones.
It is not necessary now to inquire more particularly what led the venerable Asiatic presbyter at this period to travel all the way from Smyrna to the seat of empire.
In England and in Scotland were a Catholic Queen, a Catholic Queen Mother, and the Queen of Scotland was marrying the idolatrous Dauphin. As a rule, a Queen was an "idol," and that was enough. England deserved an idol, and an idolatrous idol, for Englishmen rejected Kirk discipline; "no man would have his life called in trial" by presbyter or preacher.
At that time twenty-one were burnt, followed by one effigy, and eighteen penitents, who were released. "One of the former was Don Juan Gonzales, Presbyter of Seville, an eminent preacher.
Thus Malchion, a mere presbyter, was the instrument of the great Council of Antioch in the third century in meeting and refuting, for the assembled Fathers, the heretical Patriarch of that see. Parallel to this instance is the influence, so well known, of a young deacon, St. Athanasius, with the 318 Fathers at Nicæa. In mediæval times we read of St.
Therefore he smiled. "Two of them, a snivelling Jack Presbyter named Hicks and a rascal named Dunne, are taken already. Pray, madame, be so free and ingenuous with me aye, and so kind to yourself as if there be any other person concealed in your house and I am sure there is somebody else to deliver him up, and you shall come to no further trouble."
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