39 ]' pion ofpublick Authority,.to. enjoin and enforce their Scheme ? a Proje± as impraélicable as it was anreajonable ! Thus, the Lutherans and Calvini/ls were each for their Plan ; but there was a thirdPropofal, King Edward's Reformation. It happens, very unluc- kily that Mr. 11's, or, if he pleales, the Puritans Objections to this Plan, as it was re-eflablifhed by Queen Elizabeth, are really fo many Arguments in its Favour, with refped to , the feveral Parts of it, _`Doctrine, Government and IJorfhip. As to the firft Point, indeed, there was but little Difference ; however a Cenfure is pafs'd upon the Queen by Mr. N. himfelf, for not being rigid enough in her Opinions, and amongm,S nift, other Faults laid to her Charge, the isp. 113. blamed for being fond of old Rites and Ceremonies, thinking her Brother had firipp'dReligion too much ofits.Orna- ments, and made the Doi rines of the Church too narrow in forne Points. Something of the like Nature is infi- nuated in one of the. famous Admoni- tions to the Parliament, for the extir- pating the Epifcopal Government, and the eftabliíhing the Geneva Platform, or, in their Stile, the Holly Difcipline, wherein 'the Puritans make the 1o1low D4 ing
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