t were to be passed in order to keep the Christian Religion strong and unified throughout his governed country. Strong and unified in the sense that all interruptions outside of the actual faith were to be abolished so that a strong faith can be maintained.
“In this preface the King declares that latterly there had entered into some of our people’s hearts an inclination to sinister understanding of Scripture, presumption, arrogancy, carnal liberty, and contention. It is therefore necessary to set forth such declaration of the true knowledge of God and his word… as whereby all men may uniformly be led and taught the true understanding of that which is necessary for every Christian man to know.”
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