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impressions , in her father ' s reign , were in favour of such old rites as he had still retained ; so , in her own nature * she loved state and
some magnificence in religion as well as in every thing else . She thought , that in her brother ' s reign they had stript it too much of ex . tcrnal ornamentsand had made
, their doctrine too narrow in some points ; therefore she intended to have some things explained in more general terms , that so all parties might be comprehended by
them . She inclined to keep up images in churches ; and to have the manner of Christ ' s presence in the saeramenl left in some general words ; that those who believed the corporal presence might not
be driven away from the church by too nice an explanation of it , " Burnet adds , with what justice I cannot perceive , " Nor did she like the title of Supreme Head ; she thought it imported too great
a power , and came too near that authority which Christ only had over the church . " ( Reform , ii . 348 . ) Dr . Warner remarks , with more probability , that Elizabeth was not to be won with either threats or
entreaties to part with her supremacy ; of which she was as fond as the king her father . " Dr . Toulmin well observes , that cc to a woman
of Queen Elizabeth ' s spirit , it was , independently of every religious consideration ., a powerful inducement to support the Reformation . " — ( Neale , i . 124 , 154 . )
In your 7 th Volume , p . ^ 2 , is quoted , from TStrype , a curious Dialogue between Queen Elizabeth and Dean Nowell , on occasion of a pictured prayer-book presented by the dean tb his foyal mistress , as a new . year ' s gift . It ia remarkable that such & present
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should have been contrived by tht Dean of St . Paul ' s , who headed that part of the clergy , whiqh , from their desire to-carry further the reformation of Edward , were call *
ed Puritans . The Protestant indignation , expressed by the queen on that occasion ^ it is difficult to regard as any thing better than mere affectation , one example of the queen-craft in which she was
no mean proficient . Strype dates this dialogue in 156 * 1 . Yet he mentions , under the year 1564 , ' * an English Papist at Louvaine , " who dedicated a work to the queen , declaring , •* that her good affection to the Cross moved him to
adventure to recommend this trea . tise to her highness . " Strype refers this to the crucifix in the queen ' s chapel , which he evidently supposes , till that time at least , to be retained . Burnet , in his
Collections ( iii . 292—294 ) has preserved some curious particulars on this subject , in several Latin letters from Bishops Jewell and Sands to Peter Martyr , in 1559 and 1560 . From these it appears ,
that the queen had in her thapel a crucifix , and proposed to retain such in churches , with images of Mary and John , conveniently placed so as to be seen by all the people . Sands expostulated , and was threatened with the queen ' s
indignation . She however appears , at length , to have conceded some point , perhaps the public exposure of the crucifix , and she might discard Mary and John . Yet Sands complains that Popish vestments were retained . Burnet
has also preserved ( Rec . ii . 316 ) the following submissive language , used by * ' bishops and divines" on this occasion— " Not in any respect of self-will , stoutness , or
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310 Sketch of English Protestant Per 8 ecutiott .- ^ lMter VII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/26/
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