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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The true profession?

Does "the true profession" refer to "the laws"?

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Archbishop or bishop:
Will you to the utmost of your power maintaine the laws of God the true profession of the Gospell and the Protestant reformed religion established by law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realme and to the churches committed to their charge all such rights and priviledges as by law doe or shall appertaine unto them or any of them.
  

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Thanks.
But I also wonder whether I 've got the grammatical structure correctly.
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This what was what Lizzie Windsor was asked on 2 June 1953:

Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of *** and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine

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