CHAP. XXII. Of the Conference at Hampton-Court, and the severall encouragements given to the Anti-Calvinians in the time of K. James.
1. THe occasion of the Conference at Hampton-Court, and the chief persons there assembled. 2. The 9 Articles of Lambeth rejected by K. James. 3. Those of the Church being left in their former condition. 4. The Calvinian Doctrine of Pre∣destination decried by Bishop Bancroft, disliked by King James, and the reasons of it. 5. Bishop Bancroft and his Chaplain both abused: the inserting of the Lambeth Articles into the Con∣fession of Ireland, no argument for K. James his approbation of them, by whom they were inserted, and for what cause allowed of in the said Confession. 6. A pious fraud of the Calvinians in clapping their Predestinarian Doctrines at the end of the Old Testament, An. 1607. discovered, censured and rejected, with the reasons for it. 7. The great encouragement given by King James to the Anti-Calvinians, and the increase of that Party both in power & number, by the stirrs in Holland. 8. The offence taken by K. James at Conradus Vorstius, animateth the Oxford Calvinists to suspend Dr. Houson, and to preach publickly against Dr. Laud. 9. The like proceedings at Cambridge, against Mr. Symson, first prosecuted by K. James, and on what account, that the King was more incensed against the party of Arminius, then against their perswasions. 10. Instructions published by K. James in order to the diminishing of Calvins authority, the defence of Universal Redemption, and the suppressing of his Doctrins in the other points, & why the last proved so unusefull in the case of Gabriel Bridges. 11. The publishing of Mountagues Answer to the Gagger, the information made against it; the Author and his Doctrins taken by K. James into his protection, and his Appeal licensed by that Kings appointment. 12. The Conclusion of the whole discourse, and the submission of it to the Church of Eng∣land.