Scripture and the comment of history, we shall betake us each to our humble path with a clearer conviction of duty, a stronger sense of the danger and the guilt of neglecting it, a firmer hope of a blessing, a more cheerful and animating view of the prospect before us." And now, dear brother, who rejoicest in a name, than which the earth has never known a nobler, the name of "the judicious Hooker,"—in the hope that, for the love you bear me, you will pardon this strange rambling, and with the prayer, that God may bless you many years with health and strength, to serve his glorious Church, with the rich. gifts which he has given you-or, failing these, may comfort and sustain your heart with Milton's noble sentiment, believe me, with sincere affection, your faithful friend and brother in the Church and Gospel of our common Lord. G. W. DOANE. The Rev. HERMAN HOOKER, Editor of the Library of Christian Knowledge. CONTENTS. Divisions amongst Ecclesiastics.-The regular and secular Clergy.— The Pope favours the former.-Exemptions from Episcopal Juris- Progress of Grievances under the Norman Princes.-Papal Interfe- rence.-Legates.-Collision of Roman and English Forms of Law -Inconveniences attending it 47 Cromwell.-Gardiner.-Bonner.-The Act of the Six Articles.-Ser- mons of those Days.-Proposed Disposal of Ecclesiastical Pro- perty.-Articles of 1536.-The Bible in Churches.-Bishops' Book, CONTENTS. CHAPTER XI. Hooper.-Puritans.-Expectations of the Roman Catholics.-Edward's Death.-Lady Jane Grey CHAPTER XII. xxiii CHAPTER XIII. 235 Mary. Suppression of the Reformation.-Persecution of the Reformers.-Fox's Acts and Monuments 252 Elizabeth.-Her Accession.-Her Caution.-Reformation again triumphant.—Return of the Exiles.-Jewel.-Injunctions of Elizabeth compared with those of Edward.-Progress of the Puritans.-The Reformation not completed.-Conclusion 299 |