ce of the real
presence, she openly gave him thanks for his pains and
piety." Heylin, p. 124. She would have absolutely forbidden
the marriage of the clergy, if Cecil had not interposed.
Strype's Life of Parker, p. 107, 108, 109. She was an enemy
to sermons; and usually said, that she thought two or three
preachers were sufficient for a whole county. It was
probably for these reasons that one Doring told her to her
face from the pulpit, that she was like an untamed heifer,
that would not be ruled by God's people, but obstructed his
discipline See Life of Hooker, prefixed to his works.

She took care to have a law for uniformity strictly enacted: she was
empowered by the parliament to add any new ceremonies which she thought
proper: and though she was sparing in the exercise of this prerogative,
she continued rigid in exacting an observance of the established laws,
and in punishing all nonconformity. The zealots, therefore, who harbored
a secret antipathy to the Episcopal order, and to the whole liturgy,
were obliged, in a great measure, to conceal these sentiments, which
would have been regarded as highly audacious and criminal; and they
confined their avowed objections to the surplice, the confirmation
of children, the sign of the cross in baptism, the ring in marriage,
kneeling at the sacrament, and bowing at the name of Jesus. So fruitless
is it for sovereigns to watch with a rigid care over orthodoxy, and to
employ the sword in religious controversy, that the work, perpetually
renewed, is perpetually to begin; and a garb, a gesture, nay, a
metaphysical or grammatical distinction, when rendered important by the
disputes of theologians and the zeal of the magistrate, is sufficient
to destroy the unity of the church, and even the peace of society. These
controversies had already excited such ferment among the people, that in
some places, they refused to frequent the churches where the habits
and ceremonies were used; would not salute the conforming clergy; and
proceeded so far as to revile them in the streets, to spit in their
faces, and to use them with all manner of contumely.[*] And while the
sovereign authority checked these excesses, the flame was confined, not
extinguished; and burning fiercer from confinement, it burst out in the
succeeding reigns to the destruction of the church and monarchy.

* Strype's Life of Whitgift, p. 460

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