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Conclusion.

AN. REG. 8, 5. Thus have we seen the Church established on a sure 17 foundation: the doctrine built upon the Prophets and Apostles, 34 according to the explication of the ancient Fathers; the government truly apostolical, and (in all essential parts thereof) of Divine institution; the Liturgy an extract of the primitive forms; the ceremonies few, but necessary, and such as tended only to the preservation of decency and increase of piety. And we have seen the first essays of the Puritan faction,—beginning low, at caps and surplices and episcopal habits; but aiming at the highest points-the alteration of the Government both in Church and State, the adulterating of the doctrine, and the subversion of the Liturgy and form of worship, here by law established'. But the discovery of those dangerous doctrines, and those secret plots and open practices, by which they did not only break down the roof and walls of this goodly building,

§ 34. Or that it was at those days the right way to knowledge, every man to read by himself the Scriptures, and neglect all kind of tradition."

[§ 36-7-8, relate to the ceremonies used at Christmas, Candlemas, St John Baptist's day, and Michaelmas.]

"§ 39. Or that they should use the sign of the Cross in Baptism only, and not at the consecrating of Christ his Body.

§ 42. Or that any Goodman [see above, p. 120] then did write that the government of women was monstrous.

§ 43. Or that Est in these words, Hoc est Corpus meum, is to be taken for significat.

§ 45. Or that there was any controversy then in Religion, which being decided by the Bishop of Rome, the contrary part was not taken for Heresy, and the maintainers of it accounted Heretics.

§ 46. Or that any then was put in the Calendar for a Martyr, which was hanged by just judgment, not for any cause and matter of faith, but for evident and wicked felony *.

§ 47. Or that any ecclesiastical persons were deprived then of their benefices, or excommunicated out of Church and Living, for that they refused to swear against the authority of the Bishop of Rome; or that any such oath was used to be put unto any man at that time.

§ 50. Or that any but Heretics refused to subscribe to a General and Lawful Council, gathered and confirmed by the Bishop of Rome his authority."

The remaining part of this paragraph, and the "Advertisement" which follows, are not in the first or second edition.

Perhaps this refers to the insertion of the beheading of Protector Somerset (Jan. 22) among the memorable events recorded at the bottom of the page in the Calendar. See Clay, Liturg. Eliz. (Park. Soc.) 444.

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but digged up the foundation of it, will better fall within the AN.REG.8, compass of a Presbyterian or Aërian History; for carrying on of whose designs since the days of Calvin, they have most miserably embroiled all the estates and kingdoms of these parts of Christendom-the realms and churches of Great Britain more than all the rest. Let it suffice for the present, if I have set the Church on its proper bottom, and shewed her to the world in her primitive lustre, that we may see how strangely she hath been unsettled, how monstrously disfigured by unquiet men, whose interess is as incompatible with the rights of monarchy as with distinction of apparel, the government of Bishops, all set forms of prayer, and whatsoever else1 they contend against; and therefore I will here conclude my History of the Reformation, as not being willing to look further into those disturbances, the lamentable effects of which we feel to this very day.

1 Ed. " also."

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[HEYLYN, II.]

AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.

THE

HE reader is to be informed of a mistake occurring in fol. 1201, where it is said that no care had been taken for translating the English Liturgy into the Irish tongue for the use of that Church, from that day to this; whereas it hath been since translated into that language, and recommended to the people for God's public service, though not so generally made use of as it ought to be: neither the Bible2 nor the Book of Homilies being yet translated, which makes the Liturgy imperfect, and the whole service of the Church defective in the main parts of it. The reader also is to know, that since these sheets were upon the press, the Lord Marquess of Hartford, mentioned folio 5,3 was made Duke of Somerset', and Doctor William Juxon, Bishop of London, mentioned folio 254,5 is preferred to Canterbury.

1 Vol. i. p. 260. (The reference to the old edition ought to have been p. 122.)

2 The translation of the New Testament into Irish has been mentioned, i. 160, note 2. The first attempt at translating the Old Testament was made under the superintendence of Bp. Bedel. It was completed, and arrangements had been made for printing it, when the breaking out of the Rebellion put a stop to the undertaking. Mant, i. 468. 3 Vol. i. p. 8.

4 The Duke died Oct. 24, 1660-four days after the date of Heylyn's Preface, vol. i. p. xvi.

5 Vol. ii. p. 229.

AN

APPENDIX

TO THE FORMER

BOOK:

CONTAINING,

The Articles of Religion agreed upon in Convocation Anno 1562. compared with those which had been made and published in the Reign of King Edward the 6th. Anno 15521.

1 The old Title of the Appendix promises in addition "2. Notes on the former Articles, concerning the particulars in which they differed, and the reasons of it." But, as is stated in the following page, the idea of appending Notes was abandoned by the Author.

A Preface to the following ARTICLES. THE Lutherans having published that famous Confession of their

Faith which takes name from Ausberge, at which city it was tendered to the consideration of Charles the Fifth, and the Estates of the Empire there assembled, anno 1530, in tract of time all other Protestant and Reformed Churches followed that example; and this they did, partly to have a constant rule amongst themselves, by which all private persons were to frame their judgments, and partly to declare that consent and harmony which was betwixt them and the rest of those National Churches which had made an open separation from the Popes of Rome. Upon which grounds the Prelates of the Church of England, having concurred with the godly desires of King Edward the Sixth, for framing one uniform order to be used in God's public worship, and publishing certain pious and profitable sermons in the English tongue for the instruction of the people, found a necessity of holding forth some public rule, to testify as well their orthodoxy in some points of doctrine, as their abhorrency from the corruptions of the Church of Rome, and the extravagancies of the Anabaptists and other sectaries. This gave the first occasion to the Articles of Religion published in the reign of King Edward the Sixth, anno 1552, as also of the review thereof by the Bishops and Clergy assembled in their Convocation under Queen Elizabeth, anno 1562. Which, being compared with one another, will appear most plainly neither to be altogether the same, nor yet much different,-the later being rather an explication of the former, where the former seemed to be obscure, or not expressed in such full and significant terms as they after were, than differing from them in such points wherein they dissented from the Romanists and some modern heretics. But what these differences were, both for weight and number, the reader may observe by seeing the Articles laid before him in their several columns, (as hereafter followeth); wherein the variations are presented in a different character, or otherwise marked out by their several figures in the line and margin: which was first done with reference to some annotations intended once upon the same, for shewing the reason of those additions, subtractions, and other alterations which were thought necessary to be made to and in King Edward's Book by the Bishops and Clergy in their Convocation, anno 1562. But that design being laid aside, as not so compatible with the nature of our present History, the Articles shall be laid down plainly as they are in themselves, leaving the further consideration of the differences which occur between them to the reader's care.