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. 1868 Excerpt: ...powers, that there never was, nor is, any design that all should be Protestants." Mark these words--they apply to the whole period from the Reformation to 17 11, that is, if you date from the Parliament of Elizabeth, a period of 150 years; if from the Irish Parliament of Henry VIII., 175 years: --"There never was nor ...
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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. 1868 Excerpt: ...powers, that there never was, nor is, any design that all should be Protestants." Mark these words--they apply to the whole period from the Reformation to 17 11, that is, if you date from the Parliament of Elizabeth, a period of 150 years; if from the Irish Parliament of Henry VIII., 175 years: --"There never was nor is any design that all should be Protestants.' "This is plain by the methods that have been taken since the Rformation, and which are yet pursued." By whom? Who is responsible?" Both the civil and ecclesiastical powers" These statements are made under the authority of one of Irelands noblest bishops. The Rev. James Byrne, writing of the same period, says: --"During all that long period of alternate rebellion and confiscation which extended nearly from the accession of Elizabeth till the taking of Limerick in 1691, the Irish Reformed Church was separated from the native Irish by an impassable chasm caused by difference of language and civil convulsion. Nor was it only the hostility of the Irish which impeded her efforts. The guardians of English power in Ireland also discouraged her attempts to undertake the great work which always invited her Christian zeal. Bedell's enlightened labours were discountenanced by Laud and Strafford, who in that zeal for authority and that hatred of the free action of thought and piety which were engendered by the struggle with the Puritans, looked with disfavour on his efforts to appeal to the thought and piety of the Irish through their own language."t Is it not plain that on account of political connections and influences, the Church refused even to attempt to carry out the great work which Christ entrusted to her? 6. In what has been already said, it seems very evident that...
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