firf Volume of the .Fl ory of.the Puritans. 85r " long reftrained. It was a gentle fuffering, to be expofed to the world " in their true colours, much below what others had fuffered at their " hands." Qpeen EIzABaTn had, to be fare, very much of the high fpirit and principles of her royal father, and affected to govern after his exam- ple. Her education under a proteflant tutor, gave her an early tindture for the reformation ; and intere/t afterwards obliged her to be at variance with the pope, who had pronounced her mother's marriage illegitimate, and let afide, her title to the crown. Yet at her acceffion when the was twenty-five years of age, it was not certainly known, whether the was a proteffant or papiff. " What to think of the queen's religion, Ann. V. L " when the came to the crown (lays Mr.Strype), one might hefitate fome- P 2. what ; who in her fitter's reign went to mats, and bowed to idolatry." " Your majefly (lays the prior of St. 7ohn's) was not eafily brought " to condelcend to the alteration of religion. You was not the caufe efficient, but one without which it could not take effect. Her ma- " jetty allo protefted to count Feria and lord Lamac, but a few days ., before queen Mary died, that the now and then prayed to the virgin " Mary. " And again, " Whether the queen was determined inAnn. V. I. " her mind or no, certain it is, that the affairs of the church continued p. 51. " for a time in the fame podure as before her accetlion, abateing perfe- " cation for religion." Mr. N. is as fenlible as this writer, of the difficulties and difcourage-H. Per. ments attending the reformation, and has reported them in as ftrong P.122. terms; which were fo many good reafons for the queen's proceeding with caution, and changing the religion of the nation by degrees ; but when thefe difficulties were abated, and the government fettled, why did the not ftrengthen the reformation, by a more comprehenfive union among the reformed ? Why mull the puritans, who were the molt determined proteftants in the nation, be excluded the church, for the fake of a few ceremonies and popith habits, when the lutherans and papi/ls were indulged in the doctrine of the real prefence in the facra ment? Why was her majefly fo averle to the removing images? Why L. Parker, did the mimick the theatrical worfhip of the church of Rome, by keep- stÿnn. 6,,3 1 °. ing a crucifix, with lighted tapers upon the altar in her chapel, con- A '. I. Crary to her own injunitions ? And when it had been removed for fome p.508. time, at the interceffion of the bifhops, why did the caufé it to be replaced as late as the year 157o ; but becaufe, as Mr. Strype Pays, her Ann, V. L majefly had been ufed to crones, and faints images in churches, where P' 75. the and her nobles, that reforted thither, ufed to givehonour to them ? Are not thefe indications ofa greater inclination to thepompof Rome, than to the Pimple plainnefs of Geneva. Mr. s
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