THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. PART III. BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE TWO FORMER PARTS. THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. BY GILBERT BURNET, D.D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF SARUM. VOL. III. OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. MDCCCXXIX. Xar. Press. 1. a. 55. THIS work, which is designed to finish the History of our Reformation, seems reserved to be laid at your MAJESTY'S feet; who, we trust, is designed by God to complete the reformation itself. To rectify what may be yet amiss, and to supply what is defective among us; to oblige us to live and to labour more suitably to our profession; to unite us more firmly among ourselves; to bury, and for ever to extinguish, the fears of our relapsing again into and to establish a confidence and correspondence with the protestant and reformed churches abroad. popery; The eminent moderation of the most serene house from which your MAJESTY is descended, gives us auspicious hopes, that as God has now raised your MAJESTY, with signal characters of an amazing providence, to be the head and the chief strength of the reformation; so your MAJESTY will, by a wise and noble conduct, form all these churches into one body; so that though they cannot agree to the same opinions and rituals with us in all points, yet they |