Chapter 49, Appendix, Footnote #06
Under Elizabeth as well
Passive obedience is expressly and zealously inculcated in the Homilies, composed and published by authority, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The convocation which met in the very first year of the king's reign voted as high monarchical principles as are contained in the decrees of the University of Oxford during the rule of the Tories. These principles, so far from being deemed a novelty introduced by James's influence, passed so smoothly that no historian has taken notice of them; they were never the subject of controversy or dispute or discourse; and it is only by means of Bishop Overall's Convocation-book, printed near seventy years after, that we are acquainted with them. Would James, who was so cautious, and even timid, have ventured to begin his reign with a bold stroke, which would have given just ground of jealousy to his subjects? It appears from that monarch's Basilicon Doron, written while he was in Scotland, that the republican ideas of the origin of power from the people were at that time esteemed Puritanical novelties. The patriarchal scheme, it is remarkable, is inculcated in those votes of the convocation preserved by Overall; nor was Filmer the first inventor of those absurd notions.