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For a while He will, 'tis true,
His remedy delay,

And He will on His part do,

As though to take their way

He would leave all things round thee,
While to and fro in need

Thou shouldst sway in misery,

And He seems not to heed.

But if thou shouldest true remain,
When thou dost least expect,
Quickly He'll undo thy pain,
And thy release effect.
For thy heart he will unlade,
Of that so heavy load,

For which thou ne'er sought aid

Treading on evil road. *

Good luck to thee, child of truth!
Thou winnest with renown,

And cries of thanks forsooth,
Victory and Kenor's crown,
God himself places the palms
In that right hand of thine,
And thou sing'st joyful psalms

To Him who dried thy brine.

Make an end, Lord, make an end
Of all our earthly need,
And thy hands paternal lend

Be't till our death decreed,

That we ever in thy care

And truth shall be secure!

Thus, until Heaven's bliss we share.

Thither our road is sure.

* Since we ask our daily bread from God we must not receive it from the Devil. Secker.

Those who have time should learn German and read the original, of which this by no means conveys either the force or the beauty. [P.T.V.]

MEMOIR of Dr. ROWLAND TAYLOR, MARTYR,

Coutinued from page 380, of Vol. 4.

AFTER Dr. Taylor had lain in prison awhile, he was cited to appear in the Arches court, at Bow-church, to show cause why he should not be divorced. At the day appointed he was brought thither, his keeper waiting upon him; where he stoutly and strongly defended his marriage, affirming, by the Holy Scriptures; by the doctors of the primitive church; by both laws civil and canon, that it is lawful for priests to marry; and that such as have not the gift of continency are bound, on the pain of damnation, to marry. This he so plainly proved, that the judge could not give sentence of divorce against him; but because he was married, gave sentence that he should be deprived of his benefice. You do me wrong, said Dr. Taylor; and he brought many laws and constitutions for himself. But all prevailed not; for he was again taken to prison, and his living given to others.

WHEN Dr. Taylor had been in prison nearly two years, during, which time the papists had induced the parliament to enforce again, those old tyrannous laws which had been put down by King Henry VIII and Edward VI. that by such means they might have power to cause to appear before them, such as had not renounced the Reformed religion; and if they could not by persuasion or force compel them to renounce the Reformed, and embrace the Romish religion, punished them as best suited their own pleasure. As soon as these laws were once established they sent for Dr. Taylor with certain other prisoners who were again assembled before the chancellor and other commis. sioners. When Dr. Taylor, with the others came before the commissioners, the lord chancellor said, “You, among others, are at this present time sent for, to enjoy the King's and Queen's majesties' favour and mercy, if you will now rise again with us from the fall which we generally have received in this realm, from the which (God be praised!) we are now clearly delivered miraculously. If you will not rise with us now,

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eceive mercy now offered, yon shall have judgement according ɔ demerit." To this answered Dr. Taylor, "That so to rise, hould be the greatest fall that ever I could receive; for I hould so fall from my dear Saviour Christ, to Antichrist. For I lo believe that the religion set forth in King Edward's days, vas according to the view of the Holy Scriptures, which conaineth fully all the rules of our Christian religion, from the which I do not intend to decline, as long as I live by God's grace."

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THEN, master secretary Bourn said, "Which of the religions mean ye in King Edward's days? For ye know there were divers books of religion set forth in his days. There was a res ligion set forth in a catechism by my Lord of Canterbury. Do you mean that you will stick to that?" Dr. Taylor answered, “My Lord of Canterbury made a catechism to be translated into English, which book was not of his own making; yet he set it forth in his own name: and truly that book for the time did much good. But there was, after that, set forth by the most innocent king Edward (for whom God be praised everlastingly) the whole Church service, with great deliberation, and the advice of the best learned men of the realm and authorized by the whole parliament, and received and published gladly by the whole realm; which book was never reformed but once ;and yet, by that one reformation it was so fully perfected, according to the rules of our Christian religion in every behalf, that no Christian conscience could be offended with anything therein contained; I mean of that reformed."

THE LORD chancellor said, "Didst thou never read the book that I set forth of the sacraments ?"-Dr Taylor, answered, "That he had read it." Then he said, How likest thou that book? With that, one of the council said, "My lord, that is a good question; for I am sure that stoppeth all the mouths." Then said Dr. Taylor, "My Lord, I think many things be far wide from the truth of God's word in that book." Then said the chancellor, "Thou art a very varlet and an ignorant beetle

To that Dr. Taylor answered "That is as ill as raca (Thou

fool). I have read over and over again the holy Scriptures, and St. Augustine's works through; St. Cyprian, Eusebius, Origen, Gregory Nazianzen, with divers other books through once; therefo.c, I thank God, I am not utterly ignorant. Besides thes, my lord, I professed the civil laws, as your lordship did; and I have read over the canon law also." Then his lordship said, "With a corrupt judgment thou readest all things: touching my profession, it is divinity, in which I have written divers books." Then said Dr, Taylor, "My lord, ye did write one book, 'De vera obedientia,' I would you had been constant in that; for indeed you never did declare a good conscience that I heard of, but in that one book." Then the chancellor said, "Tut, tut, tut,; I wrote against Bucer on Priest's marriages but such books please not wretches as thou art, which hast been married for many years." Dr. Taylor answered, "I am married indeed, and I have had nine chidren in holy matrimony, I thank God; and this I am sure of, that your proceedings now at this present, in this realm against priests” marriages, is the maintenance of the doctrine of devils, against natural law, civil law, canon law, general councils, canons of the apostles, ancient doctors, and God's laws."

THEN SAID Gardener, "Thou sayest that Priest's may be married by God's law. How provest thou that; Dr. Taylor replied "By the plain words and sentences of St. Paul, both to Timothy and to Titus, where he speaks most evidently of the marriage of priests, deacons, and bishops. And Chrysostom, writing upon the Epistle of Timothy, saith, It is heresy to say that a bishop may not be married."

THEN said the lord chancellor, "Thou liest Chrysostom. But thou dost, as all thy companions do, believe ever without shame both the scriptures and the doctors. Didst thou not also say that by the canon law priests may be married? which is most untrue, and the contrary is most true." Dr. Taylor answered, "We read in the decrees, that the four general councils-Nicene, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon—have the same authority that the four Evangelists have. And we

read in the same decrees (which is one of the chief books of the canon law), that the council of Nice, by the means of one Paphnutius, did allow priest's and bishops's marriages; therefore by the best part of the canon law, priests may he be married.', Then the chancelor said, 'Thou falsi fiest the general council; for there is express mention in the said decree, priests should be divorced from their wives, which be married, Then said Dr. Taylor, "If those words be there, as you say, then am I content to lose this great head of mine; let the book be fetched!" then spake the blshop of Durham :"though they be not there, yet they may be in the Ecclesastical History Eusebius wrote; out of which book the decree was taken;' to that Dr. Taylor said, "It is not like that the Pope would leave out any such sentence, having such authority, and making so much for his purpose. Then said the lord chancellor, "to make ah end, wilt thou not return again with us to the Catholic Church?" and with that he rose. Then Dr. Taylor said, "By God's grace I will never depart from Christ's Church.

AFTER that, Dr. Taylor had, with great spirit and courage answered for himself, and stoutly rebuked his adversaries for breaking their oath made to King Henry VIII., and to Edward his son, and for betraying the realm into the power of the Roman Bishop; they, perceiving that they could not persuade him to conform to their wills and purpose; that is, to turn with them from Christ to Antichrist, committed him again to prison, where he remained till the end of January.

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The phrase of "opening the heavens," sheweth us that only by Christ paradise above is opened, and the commerce renewed between heaven and earth; and " as many as are baptized into Christ," are really freed from that curse which was symbolically figured by our shutting out of paradise below; and the shutting up thereof by placing the Cherubims at the entrance with a flaming branded sword.-Bishop Lake.

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