CHAP. IV. Cranmer's industry and sound judgment; His success; Persons who might read the Bible; Persecution; Attempt on Cranmer; His forgiving temper; Extracts from the canon law of Rome; Translation of part of the service; Reforming bishops appointed; Persecution; Design upon Cranmer; Frustrated by Henry; Henry's death, 61 CHAP. V.-King Edward; Germany; Reformation urged on; Want of clergymen ; Homilies prepared ; Ignorance of the people; Articles and injunctions; Mary opposes the Reformation; Laws against heretics repealed; Mode of choosing bishops; Commission appointed to revise the liturgy; Germany; Popish rites abolished; Images destroyed, 69 CHAP. VI.-Progress of the liturgy; Romish indulgences; Cranmer's catechism; Primitive liturgies; Romish abuse of a liturgy; Romish rites abolished; Practices in the primitive church; Germany; Calvin's letter to the Protector; The liturgy established; Gloria in excelsis ; Fasting, 83 CHAP. VII.-Great attachment to the reformation expressed; Complaints against the Priests; Real presence discussed; Anabaptists; Joan of Kent; Infant baptism; Predestination; Rebellion, 93 CHAP. VIII.-Ridley's honesty; Bonner; Protector sent to the tower: Form of ordination; Ridley consecrated bishop of London; Latimer's faithfulness; Hooper's objection to the episcopal vestments; Bucer's opinion about them; The liturgy reviewed ; Bucer's advice; His advice to the king about rural bishops, &c.; Ridley's visitation; Germany; The Interim; Popish clergy dissemble; Cranmer's tenderness; Death of Bucer; Degradation of Gardiner, 105 CHAP. IX.-Articles of religion; Prayer-Book ; Reasons for using the confession and absolution; The ten commandments; For kneeling at the sacrament; The lady Mary still a papist ; Duke of Somerset beheaded; Germany; Council of Trent, 119 ; CHAP. X.-Ecclesiastical laws; The Trinity, &c. Heresies; Punishment of heretics and others; Against Simony; Examination of candidates for orders; Purgation; The poor; Church officers; Duty of bishops; Annual convocations; Excommunication; Receiving of penitents; Reformation of the clergy; Council of Trent; Dioceses divided; Mode of appointing bishops; Letters patent to teach the catechism ; Sickness of Edward; His charities; His death; His character, 127 CHAP. XI.-Lady Jane Gray proclaimed ; Mary made Queen; Her character; Gardiner's policy; Edward's funeral; Disturbance at St. Paul's; Mary's answer to the men of Suffolk; Bradford and Rogers imprisoned; Popish bishops restored; The reformers turned out of their pulpits, and papists put in their places; Hooper and others imprisoned; Images, Latin service and old rites, once more; Cranmer's conduct; He refuses to fly; He and Latimer sent to the tower; The Queen treats with the pope; Joy at Rome; Pool sent as legate but stopped; Lady Jane Gray executed; Elizabeth imprisoned; Popery re established throughout England; Dispute at Oxford; Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley condemned, 147 CHAP. XII.-Conduct of the Reformers in prison; Mary married to Philip; Cardinal Pool arrives ; Parliament petitions to be reconciled to Rome; Their petition graciously received; All acts against Rome repealed; Laws against heretics revived; Discussion about heretics; Pool proposes a reformation of the clergy; Gardiner advocates persecution; Persecution rages; Martyrdom of Rogers, Hooper, and others; Dr. Taylor; The nation filled with horror; Gardiner leaves the persecution to Bonner; Queen Mary's conscience; The Pope's modesty, 167 CHAP. XIII.—Persecution still rages; The dead body of a robber cited, condemned and burnt; The nobility and gentry directed to attend the burnings; Gardiner's subtlety; Martyrdom of Latimer and Ridley; Death of Gardiner; Parliament disgusted, but Mary perseveres; Reformation of the clergy proposed ; Influence of the lives of clergymen; Germany; Abdication of Charles 5th; Cranmer tried and degraded; His recantation; His martyrdom; His character, 181 CHAP. XIV. The lame and the blind burnt; Conduct of the Reformers; Their meetings; Their faithful shepherds; The refugees at Frankfort; Origin of Differences; The bodies of Bucer and Fagius burnt; Inquisition projected; Burnings continued; Pool opposes them in vain ; Martial law proclaimed against heretics; None might say, God help the martyrs ; Bonner's cruelty; Protestants in France; Mary's death; Pool's death, 203 CHAP. XV-Accession of Elizabeth; Reformation resolved upon and begun ; Parker chosen archbishop of Canterbury; His great modesty; Coronation; Reformation established by parliament; Papists allowed the exercise of their religion; Popish clergy who chose to retire, pensioned; Parker's letters; His consecration; Fable of the nag's head ordination; Reformation completely settled, 213 |