C 53 tuft, and therebykeep up a Divifion be- tween theReform'd Churches. Mr. Ful- ler mentions this diflinguiíhing Mode- ration to the Honour of the Church of England. " No Lay-Perfon (fays he) Lib. 9 t. 7 " was required to fubfcribe, no Magi- " orate, none of the Commens, accord- " ing to, the Severity in other Places. " For the Perfecuted Church of Eng- " lifh in Francfort in Queen Mary her Days, demandedSubJcription to their " Difcipline of every Man, yea, even " of Women. Mr. N's next ObjeCtion to King Ed- ward's Reformation, is the Form of the Ecclefiaiical Government ; and yet here again the good Queen wifely chofe not only the moll Chriflian, but the memoderate and CatholickScheme of ChurchGovernment. The Holy Scrip- tures, and the unqueflionable Ufage of the Primitive Church, were abundant- ly fufficient to recommend theAppoint- ment of Di/hops. But as this Epifco- pal Formof Governing the Church was better fuited to the Form of the Civil Government in England, (however a different Manner might fuit the little Republick of Geneva) as moft of the Reformed Churches in Germany had the fame Form in Effec, changing on- ly the old Greek Names (as Zanchizus E 3 report- z.
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