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Are Not the Clergy Arraying Themselves Against Church and Queen?; By M.a.
Are Not the Clergy Arraying Themselves Against Church and Queen By Ma Author:M. A General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. HISTORY OF THE SUPREMACY OVER THE ENGLISH CHURCH, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ACT OP SUBMISSION. The history of the Supremacy in this country presents a remarkable and striking contrast to the history of its rise and progress in the world at large; a contrast which deserves to be noted more particularly at a time when the connexion between Church and State is deprecated, not only by the enemies of the Church, but by many of her members. To those who look for the severance of that connexion as for a great social improvement to be achieved, it may be far from useless to be reminded, that that connexion is coeval both with the Christianity and with the civilization of this land; that the proposed separation would strike at the root of a principle which, through all the changes through which this country has passed, both by foreign invasion and by internal commotions, has ever been a fundamental principle of our social life; that no experiment can be conceived more directly opposed to the whole of our past history, no experiment, therefore, if there be any continuity in the life of nations as well as of individuals, more hazardous to the national welfare. And those who are, through faithful attachment to theChurch, no less than through loyalty to their Sovereign, opposed to the idea of such a separation, who desire to preserve a connexion which sets upon the national life of England the stamp of religion, may derive no small encouragement from the thought, that the principle for the maintenance of which they are concerned, is a principle which has already withstood the shock of ages and t...« less