Address to the public on religious intolerance and persecution

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BR 1601 .A33 1834 An address to the public o] religious intolerance and ! Yr/0Ae.V-^re5An-V(7"vV\orv.ip RESS TO THE PUBLIC, Religious Intolerance and Persecution. S,No, uousque tandem nbutere patiuntia nostra,''' Millere ? III. The Church England.of England. TheHenry VIII. was the father of the Reformation in atrocious wickedness of his career, the various changes of his re- by acts ofligion, and the changes which he enforced on his subjects a pliant, servile jjarlianient, are well known to the merest sciolisttoo history,in to require detail. The creed, or confession of faith, was new-modelled under Ed- Elizabeth.ward, and finally and lastingly arranged by Queen It is well known that Henry VIII. decreed burning against Ana- baptists baptism—and againstfor denying the eflicacy of infant those who denied the real presence, and decapitation against those who denied his supremacy.* I these three reigns, displaysingle out a few cases under to the infuriate spirit that prevailed among the English reformers. And Anne Ascue, who for "dogmatizing onfirst, that of the interesting the real presence," was so violently racked, that according to the almost torn asunder;" and persistingwords of Hume, 'her body teas in her religious opinions, ''she was condemned to be burned alive; and coidd not stand, she teas car-being so dislocated by the rack, that she ried to the stake in chair. Together with her were conducted N.a king's household, and J.Belenien, a priest, J.

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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