Note 289 — Chapter IV
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Strype's Annals, i. 423, ii. 316; Life of Parker, 243, 348; Burnet, iii. 310, 325, 337. Bishops Grindal and Horn wrote to Zurich, saying plainly, it was not their fault that the habits were not laid aside, with the cross in baptism, the use of organs, baptism by women, etc. P. 314. This last usage was much inveighed against by the Calvinists, because it involved a theological tenet differing from their own, as to the necessity of baptism. In Strype's Annals, 501, we have the form of an oath taken by all mid-wives, to exercise their calling without sorcery or superstition, and to baptize with the proper words. It was abolished by James I.
Beza was more dissatisfied than the Helvetic divines with the state of the English church (Annals, i. 452; Collier, 503); but dissuaded the puritans from separation, and advised them rather to comply with the ceremonies. Id. 511.