Memoir of the Life And Writings of Thomas Cartwright, Including the Principal Ecclesiastical Movements in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
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The puritan Reformers, under the influence of stern, unbending piety, devoutly bowed to the instructions and admonitions of Jesus Christ, rejecting human tra- ditions and other abuses, for which they were treated with no ordi- nary degree of severity; and the fame of their peculiar sanctity awakened the jealousy of those who despised the practice, or dis- puted its existence, placing themselves, perhaps unintentionally, among the superstitious or among persecutors. The prevalent error, especial...ly among the higher order of eccle- * Peck's Desid. vol. i. p. 102; Strype's Whitgift, p. 290. t Ibid. R 243 MEMOIR OF siastics, was^ that the establishment of episcopacy was essential to the existence of the state, and that its abolition would destroy the civil constitution and overthrow the monarchy! To expose all this absurdity, there was no need to cross the sea and examine the foreign reformed chu.rches ; it was only necessary to cross the Tweed, and there behold the glaring fact, long established by the laws of the country.
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