The English Nation Or a History of England in the Lives of Englishmen volume
The English Nation Or a History of England in the Lives of Englishmen volume
George Godfrey Cunningham
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In 1604, the translation of the Bible, now in conuiion use, was begun by the direction of King James, and Dr Abbot was one of the eight divines of Oxford to whom the care of translating the New Testa- ment, with the exception of the epistles, was committed. In IG08, he went to Scotland with Hume, earl of Dunbar, to assist in bringing 280 ECCLESIASTICAL SERIES. [Fitni about a union between tlie national churclit's of Scotland and England. Tlie object of tliis mission was so far accomplished that... the bishops were appointeil to bo perpetual moderators in the diocesan synods, and in- vested with the power of presentation to benefices, and of deprivation or suspension ; cne skill and prudence which AI)bot exhibited in the discharge of his delicate task, laid the foundation of his rapid prefer- ment. In 1609, upon the death of Dr Overton, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Dr Abbot was appointed bishop of these united sees : a month afterwards he was translated to London ; and on the 2d Novem- ber, 1610, he was raised to the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury.
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