A Popular History of the Church of England From the Earliest Times to the Presen
A Popular History of the Church of England From the Earliest Times to the Presen
William Boyd Carpenter
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The time never did come, for the King had made a fatal misreckoning. He had calculated that the Church, which had sacri- The ficed so much in her loyalty to the throne, Resistance of was lacking in moral force, and might be t treated as the creature of his will. He did not realise that in the bosom of her sons there was, notwithstanding the dislike of Puritan extremes, a stout heart still against the errors of Rome. Men might accuse a bishop like Ken of a hankering after Rome because he ordered... his 318 JAMES II. [1685- life after a somewhat ascetic rule or used phrases redolent of Catholic devotion, but when the time of testing came the essential Protestantism of the Church of England awoke, not the noisy Protestantism of the ignorant which delights in bigotry and battle cries, but the Protestantism which was all the stronger against Rome because it knew and understood true catholicity, and could give a reason for the hope that was in it. This spirit, which saw in the Reformation a wholesome re- version to scriptural and primitive faith, now sprang into zealous and patriotic activity.
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