History of England From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles 1713 1
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Nowhere had the Church been so fatally inactive as in Ireland. When Wesley first visited that coun- try, in 1747, he observes, "at least 99 in 100 of the " native Irish remain in the religion of their forer " fathers. The Protestants, whether in Dublin or else- " where, are almost all transplanted lately from Eng- * Comines, Mem. Lib. Vii. Ch. 15. METHODISM. ] THE CHURCH IN IRELAND. 249 " land. "* The unsettled and lawless state of Ireland, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, maybe ...ad- mitted as a valid excuse for not advancing the work of the Reformation. But after the battle of the Boyne, it ought surely to have been one of the first objects of the Church and of the Government, to afford to the Irish people the means of education, and the choice of the Protestant re- ligion. There was no want of a favourable opening. The Eoman Catholic priests, humbled by recent defeats, could not at that period have ventured to withstand the read- ing of the Scriptures, or the exhortations of the Clergy.
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