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 of course, the presbyters had seized control in the first place because they disapproved of the tactics of suppression and intervention that had been deployed by the bishops, or the prelates, of the old church.

当然，现在长老首先掌握了控制权,因为他们对旧教会主教和教士的,镇压和干预策略非常反对。

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The church shouldn't be under the control of the bishops -this is Milton's argument -or prelates, a common seventeenth-century word for bishops, but the church should be led by preachers: men who were chosen by their congregations to preach.

弥尔顿认为,教会不应该在主教的完全掌控之下,或者这里可以用17世纪指称主教的常用词，高级教士，反而教会应当在布道者的领导下：,在那些被教堂会众所选出布道的人的领导下。

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