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The Englishman's brief on behalf of his national Church [by T. Moore]. (1879)
The Englishman's brief on behalf of his national Church - by T. Moore - 1879 Author:Thomas MOORE Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: So that at the Eeformation, while Papal jurisdiction was disestablished and the King's supremacy established in its stead, and while papal errors and abuses were... more » swept away, the same anciently established Church of England remained, free from papal dominion and purged from papal error. She remained, in her Bishops and Clergy, the same Church, they holding their positions and exercising their offices as before the Eeformation; established in the same Churches, the same parishes, and holding the same endowments so far as the Church had not been despoiled of them. What then were some of the more important changes which took place in the Church of England at the Reformation? As now contained in the present Book of Common Prayer, a revised order of formularies of worship was established, as well as revised forms and ceremonies for the due and reverent execution of the offices of the Church; but no new Church was established. Eevised relationships between the Sovereign and the Church in the matter of Eoyal supremacy, and between the Church and Parliament were established, but no new Church was established. It was England's old Church that remained after the Eeformation, as it had been before, but under new conditions of existence If the Church was not established by the State was she not at least indebted to it for her order, organization, and form of government ? Quite the contrary; the State in ages past learned its lessons from the Church, received its ideas of order from her, and gradually formed itself aftr her model. No more impartial witness in proof of this could be produced than Mr J. E. Green, who in his " History of the English People," page 30, in speaking of the work accomplished byTheodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, from the year 668 till 690, says:— " In...« less