C 217 I Senfe of the Engli/hChurch at Geneva. This Notion was fo induftrioufty fpread, and fo deeply rooted, that tho' Good- man did afterwards renounce it, yet it was ftill received in England. " Thefe Ibid p. t 26- " Principles (fays Mr. Strype) againft " Women's Government, feemd not to `` be buried many Tears after, but to " be fecretly entertain'd ; and that by " Papifls as well as Proteflants. Something of this Sort Teems to have been derived down to the Author of the Hiftory of the Puritans, who ap- pears a little tinftured with this Opi- nion of his Friends, when he remarks as follows. " This was a high DifplayN's Hil. " of the Supremacy, when the Head P. 55 " of the Church, being a Woman, &c. As if it would have alter'd the Cafe, had it been done by a Man. The Crown, in his Opinion, not being en- titled to the fame Prerogatives, when placed on the Head of a Queen, as if it was wore by a King. Tho' Queen Elizabeth could not countenance and eflablifh the Geneva Platform, attend- ed with many and great Inconvenien- cies; yet fuck was her Regard to the Proteflant Intereft, which was her principal View, and fo defirous was the to have Proteflant Preachers, that, as Mr. N. himfeif afferts, The offered Mr.
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