Laud took his mission as the head of the Church of England to be the squelching of this Puritan opposition.

劳德以其身为英国大主教的特权,极力打压着清教徒的反抗。

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The act of preaching sermons for Puritans was becoming more important, actually, than following the ceremonial rituals of the Church of England.

训诫对于清教徒而言愈发的重要，实际上，甚至比英国教会的宗教仪式更为重要。

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We already know that Edward King -of course he wasn't killed by the prelates of the Church of England!

我们都知道爱德华金,当然他并不是被英国教会的牧师所杀！

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Now the Church of England establishment always countered these puritan treatises in attack of their position.

现在英国的教会当局,总是在清教徒的立场上对他们的论文进行反击。

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These are churches of almost every imaginable stripe, and they're springing up and, from a mainstream perspective, they're quickly eroding the authority of the Church of England.

几乎每寸可以想到的土地上都有教堂，从主流角度来说，他们迅速成长，他们很快就侵蚀了英国的教会统治。

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Middle-class Puritans like John Milton find themselves upholding the authority of Parliament over the authority of King Charles and over the authority of the official Church of England.

中产阶级的清教徒像弥尔顿，发现自己,把议会的职权看得比国王查尔斯的权力要重,甚至比英格兰正式的教会的权力还重要。

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Without question he's the most terrifying of all of the mourners, and he gives an angry, powerful, vitriolic speech about the terrible state of England - the terrible state of the Church of England and, as a consequence, of the terrible state of England in 1637.

毫无疑问他是所有送葬者中最可怕的，他做了一番愤怒，有力，刻薄的讲话,大谈英格兰的糟糕状况,-1637年间英格兰教堂的糟糕状况，及由此产生的英格兰的糟糕状况。

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The subject of The Reason of Church Government is Milton's feelings about the hierarchical structure of the Church of the England.

的主题是弥尔顿对于,英伦大陆教会的森严等级制的一些感想。

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