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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D.

CHAPTER XL
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428.
*** D'Ewes, p.

141.
**** D'Ewes, p.

185.
v D'Ewes p.

156, 157.
The chief objection which he mentioned, was the sign of the cross in baptism.

Another member added the kneeling at the sacrament; and remarked, that if a posture of humiliation were requisite in that act of devotion, it were better that the communicants should throw themselves prostrate on the ground, in order to keep at the widest distance from former superstition.[*] Religion was a point of which Elizabeth was, if possible, still more jealous than of matters of state.


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