THE REFORMERS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, AND Mr. Macaulay's History of England. SECOND EDITION, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS, AND The Postscript. BY E. C. HARINGTON, A.M. CHANCELLOR OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF EXETER, LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON. OXFORD: J. H. PARKER. CAMBRIDGE: MACMILLAN & CO, EXETER: H. J. WALLIS. PLYMOUTH & DEVONPORT: ROGER LIDSTONE. MDCCCL. 11118 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE Author, in presenting to the public, at the suggestion of several friends, a Second Edition of his strictures on that portion of Mr. Macaulay's History of England, which relates to the Reformation, feels some degree of satisfaction, in reflecting that the statements which he advanced in the first edition remain unrefuted. The remarks, which he felt himself called upon to make on certain passages of the work in question, may, therefore, be deemed by him to have been found substantially correct. Circumstances, which he is not at liberty to detail, induced him to publish a Postscript; and he is gratified to learn that this addition to quote the language of the Christian Remembrancer-renders "the case complete," so far as the Author is concerned, against Mr. Macaulay. The Author adds with pleasure, that, in the fourth and subsequent editions of Mr. Macaulay's History, certain modifications have been adopted, in some passages complained of: but whether these alterations were in any way connected with the Author's pamphlet, must, in the absence of any acknowledgement, be left wholly to conjecture. The passages, as altered, are, in justice to Mr. Macaulay, added in the notes. The Close, Exeter, Feb., 1850. THE REFORMERS, &c. THE reader of Mr. Macaulay's History of England,' which has just issued from the press, if he be at all conversant with the History of the Reformation in this country, in the 16th century, will be startled and pained by the sweeping censure which the author has passed on Archbishop Cranmer, and not less astonished and grieved by the assertions so lavishly advanced, that "the founders of the Anglican Church" held the most extreme Erastian views, denied the Divine Institution of Episcopacy, and "retained it” merely " as an ancient, decent, and convenient ecclesiastical polity." 66 "Cranmer had declared, in emphatic terms," writes Mr. Macaulay, (vol. i. p. 57) "that God had immediately committed to Christian princes the whole cure of all their subjects, as well concerning the administration of God's word for the cure of souls, as concerning the ministration of things political. The thirty-seventh article of religion, framed under Elizabeth, declares, 1 The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second. By THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. London, 1848. |