eight o'clock
`` All must hold the Apostles ' Creed first of all , '' said Kate , `` and must set his name to a paper declaring the Pope to be antichrist , with other truths upon it . '' Isabel was puzzled ; for it seemed now as if Private Judgment were not supreme among its professors ; but she did not care to question further . It began to dawn upon her presently , however , why the Queen was so fierce against Prophesyings ; for she saw that they exercised that spirit of exclusiveness , the property of Papist and Puritan alike ; which , since it was the antithesis of the tolerant comprehensiveness of the Church of England , was also the enemy of the theological peace that Elizabeth was seeking to impose upon the country ; and that it was for that reason that Papist and Puritan , sundered so far in theology , were united in suffering for conscience ' sake . On the Sunday morning Isabel went with Mrs. Carrington and the two girls to the round Templars ' Church of Saint Sepulchre , for the Morning Prayer at eight o'clock , and then on to St. Peter 's for the sermon . It was the latter function that was important in Puritan eyes ; for the word preached was considered to have an almost sacramental force in the application of truth and grace to the soul ; and crowds of people , with downcast eyes and in sombre dress , were pouring down the narrow streets from all the churches round , while the great bell beat out its summons from the Norman tower . The church was filled from end to end as they came in , meeting Dr. Carrington at the door , and they all passed up together to the pew reserved for the churchwarden , close beneath the pulpit . As Isabel looked round her , it came upon her very forcibly what she had begun to notice even at Great Keynes , that the religion preached there did not fit the church in which it was set forth ; and that , though great efforts had been made to conform the building to the worship .