George Herbert and his times . one of the earliestof the Elizabethan advocates of the Divine originof episcopacy, and among the first to incur thecharge of Arminianism and of Papistical teach-ing and practices. His influence over the poetin things ecclesiastical could not have been other-wise than great, and it is probable that to him farmore than to Laud he owed his conceptions of thepriestly office and its duties and when and where their intimacy began is amatter of small moment. It is possible thatAndrewes, while Dean of Westminster, may haveformed a personal acquainta
George Herbert and his times . one of the earliestof the Elizabethan advocates of the Divine originof episcopacy, and among the first to incur thecharge of Arminianism and of Papistical teach-ing and practices. His influence over the poetin things ecclesiastical could not have been other-wise than great, and it is probable that to him farmore than to Laud he owed his conceptions of thepriestly office and its duties and when and where their intimacy began is amatter of small moment. It is possible thatAndrewes, while Dean of Westminster, may haveformed a personal acquaintance with Mrs. Her-bert, who was then living in London, and receivedher promising son as a boarder in the deaneryduring his first year as a Town boy ; but it isfar more probable that their actual intimacy beganat Cambridge. It was there, Walton says, thatthey engaged in their modest debate on thevexed question of Predestination and Sanctityof Life ; M after which Herbert (somewhat pre-sumptuously, it may appear to us, as he was. cVy $~
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