THE WORKS OF JOHN ROBINSON, PASTOR OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. WITH A MEMOIR AND ANNOTATIONS BY ROBERT ASHTON, SECRETARY OF THE CONGREGATIONAL BOARD, LONDON. VOLUME II. LONDON: JOHN SNOW, 35, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1851 A JVSTIFICATION OF SEPARATION FROM THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: AGAINST MR. RICHARD BERNARD HIS INVECTIVE, INTITVLED THE SEPARATIST'S SCHISME. BY JOHN ROBINSON. "And God saw that the light was good, and God separated between the light and between the darkness."-GEN. i. 4. "What communion hath light with darkness ?"-2 COR. vi. 14. ANNO D. 1610. EDITORIAL NOTICE. THE following elaborate vindication of the principles and practices of the Separatists, is a reply to a small treatise by the Rev. Richard Bernard, then Vicar of Worksop, Notts, and, subsequently, Rector of Batcombe, Somerset. The exact title of Mr. Bernard's work is as follows: 66 'Christian Advertisements and Counsels of Peace. Also Dissuasions from the Separatist's Schism, commonly called Brownisme, which is set apart from such truths as they take from us and other Reformed Churches, and is nakedly discovered, that so the falsity thereof may be better discerned, and so justly condemned, and wisely avoided. Published for the Benefit of the Humble and Godlie Lovers of the Trueth. By Richard Bernard, Preacher of God's Word. At London: imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1608." It is dedicated to "Sir George Saintpoll, and his vertuous Ladie, the Ladie Saintpoll;" who appear to have been his early friends and patrons, and by whom he had been supported during his residence in the University of Cambridge. Dated from Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, June 18. While preparing his "Justification," Mr. Robinson received, at Leyden, Mr. Bernard's reply to two works which had been written against the same publication; one entitled "Counterpoyson, by Henry Ainsworth, 1608;" and the other, "Parallels, Censures, and Observations, by John Smyth, 1609." Mr. Bernard's defence is entitled, "Plain |