This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ... in hand, and a statute and oath were formed for that purpose, about two years after. The clergy being under these hard circumstances, the house of commons (who were men picked out for the purpose) began to declaim vehemently against them, as the custom is, when persons are in a sinking condition. They were furnished ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ... in hand, and a statute and oath were formed for that purpose, about two years after. The clergy being under these hard circumstances, the house of commons (who were men picked out for the purpose) began to declaim vehemently against them, as the custom is, when persons are in a sinking condition. They were furnished with matter of complaint from two.common topics, viz. abuses at home, and oppressions from the see of Rome abroad; and, to show they were in earnest, they prepared several bills relating to annates, pluralities, residence, probates of wills, mortuaries, power of convocations, &c, which inquiries had both a good and an evil aspect, accordingly as they affected persons of different dispositions and tempers. Those that were friends to religion, and zealous for discipline, might be apt to look upon it only as a method for reforming abuses, which the best practices were subject to; others, that were atheistically inclined, regarded it, as it really was, as a method of reducing the clergy, and stripping them of their privileges. Those, that suspected the worst, durst not open their mouths on the occasion; only John Fisher, bishop of Rochester (the ornament of his age for learning and piety, and who never was silent where the honour of God was concerned), as he saw through the disguise, so he wanted not courage to speak his mind freely. When, in 1529, some of these bills were first projected, he told their promoters that it was not zeal for religion, but flattery, liberty, avarice, rapine, and sacrilege, that put them upon such projects. This freedom being complained of, and particularly, that he had been too severe in his reflections upon the laity, he was permitted to explain himself, and his apology was accepted of.1 Neither were the laity back...
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