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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
The great occasion of our meeting here is, for Preservation of the Peace in matters Ecclesiastical as well as Civil: By matters Ecclesiastical is meant matters of the Church, and by the Church is meant the Church of England as ‘tis by Law Established in this Kingdom, the Constitutions of which are undoubtedly the best of any now in practice in any other part of the Christian World, as coming nearest to that Forme of divine Worship which was taught by our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles, and which indeed is a Member of that very Church which was at Unity with it self for some Centuries after Christ's Ascension, as making the whole Scriptures the Rule of our Faith; as believing and acknowledging for Orthodox, the Doctrines of the prime Primitive Fathers, and the Four first General Councils.
page 29 note 2 Opera Omnia D. Erasmi Rotterdami, 13 vols.Amsterdam: North Holland Pub. C°, 1969–1983Google Scholar. Vol. III, ed. Halkin, Bierlaire, Hoven, Familiaria Colloquia, “Alia”, p. 135Google Scholar: “Livinus: Imo non desunt theologi, qui frigidam suffundant, et ad hos tumultus classiam canant.”
page 30 note 1 An allusion to the Martin Marprelate Tracts, 1588–9, a scurrilous and hilarious indictment of the bishops by Puritan anonymous writers.
page 30 note 2 Richard Hooker (1554?–1600), author of Of the Louis of Ecclesiastical Polite, 1594–97.
page 31 note 1 French = fire-brand.
page 32 note 1 Lat. = to give every one his right.