Chap. 2. the. 6. Diuision.
Notwithstanding my dutie of defending the truth, & loue which I haue first towardes God, and then towards my countrie, constrayneth me being thus prouoked to speake a few wordes more particularly of the forme of prayer, that when the blemishes thereof do appeare, it may please the Queenes inaiestie & hir honorable councell, with those of the Parliament, whom the Lorde hath v∣s〈1 line〉〈1 line〉o as singular instrumentes to d〈1 line〉〈1 line〉liuer this realme from the hote fornace and yron yoke of the po∣pish Egipte, to procure also, that the corruptions which we haue brought from them (as those with which we being so deepely died and stayned, haue not so easily shaken of) may be remoued from a∣mongst vs, to the ende that we beyng necrclicr both ioyned vnto the sinceritie of the gospell, and the 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉ollicie of other reformed Churches, may thereby be ioyned nearer with the Lord, and may be se〈1 line〉〈1 line〉te so farre from Rome, that both we may comfort our selues in the hope, that we shall neuer returne thither againe, and our aduersaries which desire it, and by this to much agreement with them, and to little with the reformed Churches, hope for it, may not onely be deceyued of their expectation, but also being out of all hope, of that which they desire, may the soner yeelde themselues vnto the truth, wherevnto they are now disobedient.