text: --without the least participation in it by any bishop or clergyman; but the still more conclusive argument furnished by the fact that no point in the doctrine discipline or ritual of our church was established except by the power of Parliament and the power of Parliament alone--nay more that they were established in direct defiance of the implacable opposition of the bishops by whom being then Roman Catholics the English Church on the accession of Elizabeth was represented--to which the omission of the names of the Lords Spiritual in the Act of Uniformity which is said to be enacted by the "Queen's Highness " with the assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled is a testimony at once unanswerable and unprecedented