The History of the Later Puritans: From the Opening of the Civil War in 1642 ...
The History of the Later Puritans: From the Opening of the Civil War in 1642 ...
John Buxton Marsden
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while the reformation was in progress. Undetermined themselves, they forbad the right of choice to others. Their reformation hitherto had gone no further than the dislike of prelacy had forced it: they had rejected much, they had established no- * HetheriDgton, p. 281. t PremuDire, a barbarous word for premonere ; it took its original from the exorbitant power claimed and exercised by the pope in England. The punishment was, that the convicted party forfeited his lands and property to the king ...; that he was imprisoned during pleasure, or even during life ; and further, he was placed beyond the protection of the law, he could bring an action for no injury, however atrocious, nor obtain a remedy for any grievance he might suffer. Blackstone, Ck>mment. book iv. chapter viii. Digitized by VjOOQ IC CHAS. I. A.D. 1046. THB LATBE PUBITANS. 151 thing in its place ; but as their difficulties increased chapter they shewed a still increasing aversion to the ancient service. The directory was published in January : it set forth that the liturgy had proved an offence to many of the godly, and to the re« formed churches abroad, and it was therefore to be set aside.* This was a great advance upon their first intentions, which had been merely to revise and amend the ritual.
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