PUBLISHED BY CHARLES DOLMAN, (NEPHEW AND SUCCESSOR TO THE LATE JOSEPH BOOKER) No. 61, NEW BOND STREET. MDCCCXXXIX. THE CHURCH HISTORY OF ENGLAND. PART II.-EDWARD VI. ARTICLE I. FARTHER REFORMATION.-FORMATION OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT-HERTFORD, LORD PROTECTOR-THE REFORMERS ENCOURAGED-NEW COMMISSIONS TO THE BISHOPS-RELIGIOUS INNOVATIONS GARDINER'S REMONSTRANCES-A VISITATION-JURISDICTION OF THE BISHOPS SUSPENDEDTHEY ARE FORBIDDEN ΤΟ PREACH-ECCLESIASTICAL INJUNCTIONS-A PARLIAMENT REPEAL OF NEW TREASONS-AND OF THE SIX ARTICLESPETITION OF THE CONVOCATION-BILL FOR COMMUNION IN BOTH KINDS -MARRIAGE OF THE CLERGY-ELECTION OF BISHOPS-PROCLAMATION AGAINST INNOVATIONS-REMOVAL OF IMAGES-ATTEMPT OF THE BISHOPS TO RECOVER THEIR JURISDICTION-IT FAILS-NEW FORM OF COMMUNION. 1547 THE general distraction, in which king Henry VIII. left his people, gave designing men an opportunity of setting several projects a-foot; wherein, it is to be feared that domestic views were the chief things they aimed at, and that religion was no farther concerned, than it proved serviceable to those purposes. Now, according to the politics of those days, it was judged to be the interest of the nation to continue the breach with Rome. This was the most general and received notion: and, at the same time, some were disposed to push for a farther reformation, who, considering that small breaches were soon made up, were resolved to widen them; which they could not more effectually bring to than by removing all those from the administra pass, VOL. II. B |
