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Excerpt from The Seconde Parte of a Register, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a Calendar of Manuscripts Under That Title Intended for Publication by the Puritans About 1593, and Now in Dr. William's Library, London
The complaints of the government of the Church start from the same standpoint: it was a survival of the unreformed church. The Lord Bishops, Deans, Chancellors, Commissaries and such like are compendiously described as the Popes bastards, and the body of Antichrist (i. 58; ii. But later the demand for the complete abolition of bishops developed into the more moderate proposal for the limitation of their authority. Perhaps the fullest and most consecutive statement of the case of the Puritans against the existing system is the tract entitled Certaine points concerning the pollicie and government of the Ecclesiastical State (ii. Another document of the same year, 1586, explains the nature of the courts of ministers and' elders to which the Puritans desired to transfer the disciplinary jurisdiction of the existing spiritual courts (ii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
