The Old Fashion Farmers Motives for Leaving the Church of England And Embraci
The Old Fashion Farmers Motives for Leaving the Church of England And Embraci
P C Phineas Camp Headley
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** Now may it pleafe yourhonours, tocon- jider which of both thefe Kings examples, fliall be mofl convenient for your wifdoms, to make the Queen's Majefty to follow 5 whether the example of proud Ozia; moving in her, by your perfaafions and councils^ to take upon her fpiritual government j and thereby expofing her foul to be plagued at the hand of God, as King Ozia was : o# elfe to follow the example of the good King Davidj which, in refufal of all fpiritual go- vernment, about the Ark of God, ...did hum- ble himfelf, as I have declared unto you. .. ** Whereunto our Sovereign Lady^ th* Queen's Highnefs, of her own nature being Well inclined ; we may affure ourfelves, to have of her as humble, ^s virtuous, as god- ly a/ miflrefs- to reign over us, as ever had Englifli people here in this realm ^ if that her Highnefs be not by your flattery, and difiimulation, feduced and beguiled. " Fourthly and laflly, we muft forfake and fly from the holy unity of Chrift's Church : feeing that Saint Cyprian, that holy mar- tyr, and great clerk, doth fay, that tl:e unity of the Church of Chrift doth depend Upon Peter's authority, and his fuccellor?* P 2 There- /' [ io8 ] Therefore, by leaping out of Peter's fliip, we niuft be overwhelmed with the waves of fchifms, of fedis, and divifions : becaufe the fame holy martyr, in his third Epiftle to Cornelius, teftifieth, that all herefies, fedts, and fchifms, do fpring only from hence, that men will not be obedient to the Head Bi- fhop of God.
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