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CHURCH AND STATE UNDER THE TUDORS
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Cecil's Letter to Whitgift—The Sabbatarian Controversy arises 1595 242
Elizabeth's high-pressure System 243


CHAPTER XI

REIGN OF ELIZABETH—SUMMARY

Elizabeth's exceptional Position 244
Her System absolutely Erastian 245
The first two Acts of her Reign are passed independently of the Clergy 246
Church afterwards governed by the Queen and Council—Instances which show this 247
Elizabeth, Pope of England—How qualified for such an Office by Nature and Education 250
Peculiar Characteristics of the Church of England mainly due to her—State of Parties during her Reign—Difficulty of her Work 254
Her System hard and narrow, but successful nevertheless 256


CHAPTER XII

GENERAL SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Preliminary Sketch—Church not National before the Reformation 259
Made National by Henry VIII. 262
Henry no Protestant—His Motives in breaking with the Pope 263
Difficulty of the Situation—Completeness of the Schism 1534 264
Under Edward the Council rules—The Protestant Faction supreme in the Council 266
Rapid Changes in Opinion—Mary's tyrannical Reaction 267
Could never have succeeded—Commencement of Elizabeth's Reformation 1559 268
The Clergy have no Share in it 269
Elizabeth's Personal Supremacy 270
Leads to the Development of Nonconformity 271
Tudor System completely Erastian 271
The Church of England the Creature of the State 272
Elizabeth's Divines were Swiss Protestants 274
Conclusions to which the History of Church and State under the Tudors leads 276