852 _ 4 Review of the principal fads ohjded to the Mr. N. does not .prefume to enter in thefoul, nor can it be fairly in ferred from any thing he has writ, that queen ELIZABETH'S heart was ENTIRELY POPISH ; this is language made by our author, who is p. 25. further pleafed to afrert that " if her rnajefty was really as popifh as my " pen has defcribed her, the would have followed the example of her fa- " ther,and retained manymore popith fuperftitions," which he will hardly be able to make good ; for had her majefly done that, fhe would have been abandoned by all king EDWARD'S reformers, and muff have gone Rover intirely into the camps of popery. Nor has Mr. N. ventured fo far a2a4az . as Mr. Rapin, who afffrts that the queen fometimes made her religionfub- frvient to her political intere/l; but he apprehends he has thewn, that though her majefly was a proteftant, fhe inclined more to popery than puritanifm that the countenanced the perfecution of good men through- out the greateft 'part of her long reign, and had a much gteater regard for the external pomp and ceremony of worfhip, than for the propaga- tion of true piety, and chriftian knowledge. Sentiments of Our author's next charge is, that Mr. N. has caft injurious refleêtions thersRetointr upon the dohlrine, government, and' worJhip of the church of England.' in of dottrine. He begins with daf`Ir:ne, in which he confefíes, " There was but little , Vindie. " dTerence among the reformers, however, a cefure is paled upon the P 39 " queen by Mr. N. himf, for not being rigid enough in her opinions ; and " among otherfaults laid to her charge, fhe Is blamed for being fondofold rites and ceremonies, thinking her brother hadflript religion too much of '" its ornaments, andmade the dos trines of the church too narrow. Again, " p. 45. M. N. reflects on the queenfor being inclined to think, that the articles might be too narrow." But where is this refleEtionorcenfure ? If there be any fach, 'tis not,Mr. N's, but bifhop Burnet's, whole very Hitt. Refor. words he bath tranfcribed. " As her firft ifnpreflions, in her father's Vol. II. " reign, were in favour of fuch old rites, as he had retained (lays his P' 376' " lordfhip), fo in her own nature (he loved flare and fome magnificence " in religion, as well as in every thing elfe; The thought, that in her " brother's reign, they had ftript it too much of external ornaments, " and . HAD MADE THEIR DOCTRINE TOO NARROW IN SOME as POINTS.' Of the Arti- But our author will go out of his way to maintain, that " the ar- eles ofthe " titles of the church : of England were compiled with a latitude that Church of England. " fairly admits afubfcription from thof of the fentiments ofARMINivs Vindic. " as well as Calvin." On whichhead Mr. N. does not remember he P. 40s 41. has declared his fentiments ; and that among the compilers of the articles, there werefeveral anti-calvinians. Why then does he not name them ? It being notorious, the revifers of king EDWARD'S liturgy, viz. Dr. Parker,
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