An Analysis of the History of the Reformation: With the Prior and Subsequent History of the English Church

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J. Hall, 1851 - England - 439 pages

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Page 327 - From all sedition and privy conspiracy, from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities, from all false doctrine and heresy, from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment.
Page 192 - ... protector and only supreme head of the church and clergy of England.
Page 131 - II. c. 5 ; which enacts, that whoever procures at Rome, or elsewhere, any translations, processes, excommunications, bulls, instruments, or other things which touch the king, against him, his Crown and realm ; and all persons aiding and assisting therein ; shall be put out of the king's protection, their lands and goods forfeited to the king's use, and they shall be attached by their bodies to answer to the king and his council ; or process of prcemunire facias shall be made out against them, as...
Page 295 - The articles agreed upon by the bishops and other learned and godly men, in the last convocation at London, in the year of our Lord MDLII., for to root out the discord of opinions, and establish the agreement of true religion ; likewise published by the king's majesty's authority, 1553.
Page 375 - Nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of the church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, etc., as it stands now established and ought to stand.
Page 400 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 273 - As touching, kneeling, crossing, holding up of hands, knocking upon the breast, and other gestures, they may be used or left, as every man's devotion serveth, without blame,' this Rubric was in the second Prayer Book of Edward VI.
Page 289 - And here it is to be noted, that the minister, at the time of the communion, and at all other times in his ministration, shall use such ornaments in the church as were in use by authority of parliament in the second year of the reign of king Edward VI., according to the act of parliament set forth in the beginning of this book.
Page 274 - Item, for an uniformity, that no minister do counterfeit the popish mass, as to kiss the Lord's table ; washing his fingers at every time in the communion; blessing his eyes with the 1 1 Card. Doc. Ann. 7. paten, or sudary ; or crossing his head with the paten ; shifting of the book from one place to another ; laying down and licking the chalice of the communion ; holding up his fingers, hands, or thumbs, joined towards his temples ; breathing upon the bread...
Page 363 - This is compiled from the opinions of the ancient Latin fathers, the decrees of general councils, and the decretal epistles and bulls of the holy see...

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