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taken, and eaten in the Lord's Supper, and at last
withdrew a clause which in the former Articles
denied the possibility of ' the reall and bodilie
presence (as thei terme it) of Christes flesh and
bloude),' upon the ground that His humanity is
locally restricted to the place of His glorification."'
The reformation of the Church of England, as far
as her public ministrations were concerned, may be
said, speaking in general terms, to have been completed
by this revision of the Articles of religion,
though they were not definitely imposed by law ; nor
was subscription made obligatory upon all the clergy
until the year 157 1.
Elizabeth's Prayer-book was, however, very far from
satisfactory to a large body of men, who yet, at that
time, had no formed idea of separating themselves
from the reformed Church of England. That body
was chiefly composed of those who had gone into
exile in Mary's reign to escape the persecution which
then took place. At Geneva. Zurich, and elsewhere,
their aversion from all that savoured of the doctrines
of the Church of Rome became strengthened by
their constant and intimate intercourse with foreign
Protestants. They had become accustomed, moreover,
to join in a form of worship which was bare of
ceremonial and devoid of such observances as bore
any resemblance to those of the Roman ritual,
and they could not away with a book which compelled
them to put on vestments which they abhorred
and to use words and gestures which they hated.
'
Hardwick, "Hist. Ref.," pp. 230, 231.