[Sidenote:  Conclusion]

To conclude:  you may exhort the Clergy,—­or what if you direct your conclusion not to the Clergy in general, but only to the learned in or of both Universities?—­you may exhort them to a due consideration of all things, and to a right esteem and valuing of each thing in that degree wherein it ought to stand.  For it oftentimes falleth out, that what men have either devised themselves, or greatly delighted in, the price and the excellency thereof they do admire above desert.  The chiefest labour of a Christian should be to know, of a Minister to preach Christ crucified:  in regard whereof, not only worldly things, but things otherwise precious, even the discipline itself, is vile and base.  Whereas now, by the heat of contention, and violence of affection, the zeal of men towards the one hath greatly decayed their love to the other.  Hereunto therefore they are to be exhorted to preach Christ Crucified, the mortification of the flesh, the renewing of the Spirit; not those things which in time of strife seem precious but—­passions being allayed—­are vain and childish.  G.C.

[Footnote 1:  This admirable dissertation originally appeared in 1642, entitled, “Concerning the New Church Discipline; an excellent Letter written by Mr. George Cranmer, to Mr. R.H.”]

[Footnote 2:  Gregory Martin, born at Maxfield, near Winchelsea, admitted of St. John’s Coll.  Oxford, 1557, embraced the Roman Catholic Religion and was ordained priest at Douay, 1573.  The Rheims translation of the Vulgate has been ascribed entirely to him.  He died at Rheims in 1582.]

[Footnote 3:  Vice was the fool of the old moralities, with his dagger of lath, a long coat, and a cap with a pair of ass’s ears.]

[Footnote 4:  Entitled “A Survey of the pretended holy Discipline, to which is prefixed a Sermon, preached against the Puritans, at St. Paul’s Cross, Feb. 9, 1588-9, from the following text:  ’Dearly beloved, believe not every Spirit, but try the Spirits whether they be of God, for many false Prophets have gone out into the world.’  I John iv. 1.”]

[Footnote 5:  Robert Brown, a native of Northampton, educated at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, was the founder of a sect of Puritans, who took their name from him.  He wrote several tracts in support of his opinions, and sustained various persecutions, having been committed at different times to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at broad day.  Before his removal with his followers to Middleburg in Zealand, he became disgusted with their divisions and disputes; and though he had gone a further distance than any of the Puritans did, he renounced his principles of separation, being promoted by his relation, Lord Burghley, to the benefice of Achurch in Northamptonshire.  He died in Northampton Gaol in 1630, in the 80th year of his age, having been sent thither by a justice of the peace for assaulting a constable, who was executing a warrant against him.]