Category: History - British
Cromwell.--Gardiner.--Bonner.--The Act of the Six Articles.--Sermons of those Days.--Proposed Disposal of Ecclesiastical Property.--Articles of 1536.--The Bible in Churches.--Bishops’ Book,--King’s Book 165
Cromwell.--Gardiner.--Bonner.--The Act of the Six Articles.--Sermons of those Days.--Proposed Disposal of Ecclesiastical Property.--Articles of 1536.--The Bible in Churches.--Bi...
8. CHAPTER X.Edward VI.--Advance of the Reformation.--Erasmus’s Paraphrase.--Homilies.--Cranmer’s Catechism.--Office of Communion.--Book of Common-Prayer.--Time of Service, and Length.--Prim...
9. CHAPTER XI.10. CHAPTER XII.11. CHAPTER XIII.Elizabeth.--Her Accession.--Her Caution.--Reformation again triumphant.--Return of the Exiles.--Jewel.--Injunctions of Elizabeth compared with those of Edward.--Progress of the...
12. CHAPTER I.The Reformation is not to be regarded as a great and sudden event which took the nation by surprise. It was merely the crisis to which things had been tending for some centuries...
13. CHAPTER II.In tracing the progress of corruption in the English church and the causes of it, we have hitherto had a trustworthy guide in the venerable Bede; henceforward, to the time of th...
14. CHAPTER III.It has been already observed that the distance of England from Italy, which had helped to deliver our borders from the political tyranny of imperial Rome, served also to protect...
15. CHAPTER IV.With the causes already enumerated as those which worked the downfall of the Roman Catholic church, there conspired the ignorance and immoral lives of the clergy. A system of ce...
16. CHAPTER V.Meanwhile a little leaven was at work, which served still to keep a better faith alive; a little salt of the earth which prevented the great carcase of human nature from offendi...
17. CHAPTER VI.Such was the condition of England in the fifteenth century: the minds of men generally alienated from the church of Rome by reason of its corruption; their religious knowledge i...
18. CHAPTER VII.We have now touched upon a few of the many elements which were secretly at work preparing England for a reformation of religion, and without some regard to which it would be imp...
19. CHAPTER VIII.Henry had by this time fairly passed the Rubicon. After a long pause and much anxiety for the event, he had ventured upon an act which was a declaration of war against the Pope,...
20. CHAPTER IX.The two great measures of the supremacy, and the suppression of the abbeys had been carried, but with haste and no small violence; and now came the recoil. It pertained to the k...
21. CHAPTER X.EDWARD VI.--ADVANCE OF THE REFORMATION.--ERASMUS’S PARAPHRASE.--HOMILIES.--CRANMER’S CATECHISM.--OFFICE OF COMMUNION.--BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER.--TIME OF SERVICE, AND LENGTH.--PRIM...
22. Book did not always agree; nor did they: but this only served to show(what was the truth) that, when the latter was published, Cranmer was counteracted by other influence; or else (what was equally the truth) that his own opinions had in the inte...
23. CHAPTER XI.But though the leading Reformers were men of moderation, there was a party now growing up in the church of another temper, and a more rigid mould. Hooper, the type of it at that...
24. CHAPTER XII.That God seeth not as man seeth, is a truth which he, who reads history aright, must soon be taught. Cranmer, overcome by his apprehensions for the safety of the reformed church...
25. CHAPTER XIII.ELIZABETH.--HER ACCESSION.--HER CAUTION.--REFORMATION AGAIN TRIUMPHANT.--RETURN OF THE EXILES.--JEWEL.--INJUNCTIONS OF ELIZABETH COMPARED WITH THOSE OF EDWARD.--PROGRESS OF THE...
26. part ii. c. 16. § 1.[67] In “The Supplication of Beggars,” they are stated at 52,000. (See Fox’s Acts and Mon, ii. 280. edit. 1631–2, with the note.) The number may be exaggerated; but it will seem...