The History of England, From the Accession of James the Second 4
The History of England, From the Accession of James the Second 4
Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron
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No small quantity of learning and ingenuity was expended in the attempt to prove that Abiathar, though he wore the ephod and answered by Urim, was not really High Priest, that he ministered only when his superior Zadoc 250 HISTORY OF ENGLAND. [Ch. XL was incapacitated by sickness or by some ceremonial pollution, and that therefore the act of Solomon was not a precedent which would warrant King William in de- posing a real Bishop.^ But such reasoning as this, though backed by copi- ous citations... from the Misna and Maimonides, was not generally satisfactorj^ even to zealous churchmen. For it admitted of one answer, short, but perfectly intelli- gible to a plain man who knew nothing about Greek fathers or Levitical genealogies. There might be some doubt whether King Solomon had ejected a high priest ; but there could be no doubt at all that Queen Eliza- beth had ejected the Bishops of more than half the sees in England. It was notorious that fourteen prelates had, without any proceeding in any spiritual court, been deprived by Act of Parliament for refusing to acknowl- edge her supremacy.
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