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Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England
Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England Author:Church of England Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CXII. Archiepisc. Cant. Anno Christ! Reg. Augliaa Joh. Whitgift 12. 1595. El1zab. 37. Articuli Lambethani compositi ab archiep. Cantuar. Rich. Fletcher,... more » episc. London. Ric. Vaughan, Bangor. episc. Humphr. Tyndall, decano Elien. Doct. Whitaker, regio professors Cantabrig.—Ex Fuller. Eccles. Hist. 1. ix. p. 230. I. T"EUS ab aeterno praedestinavit quosdam ad vitam, " quosdam reprobavit ad mortem. Articuli Lambethan1] The predestinarian questions attracted attention in England at an early period after they had been brought into discussion by Calvin. His " Institutio Christiana religionis" was first printed 5 at Basil in the year 1536, but did not become well known till after the year 1545, when it was printed at Geneva. The English reformers were too much occupied with preliminary matters during the reign of Henry VIII. and the earlier years of Edward VI. to arrive at speculations so far advanced as those of Calvin; but they had certainly at- 10 tracted notice and made converts in England as early as the year 1552. Before the end of that year the second service book of king Edward was in general use throughout the kingdom, and men of a speculative turn of mind were thereby set at liberty from their past discussions to enter into newfields of controversy. Itwas at that time (Sept. 9, 1552) 15 that Traheron, who was afterwards distinguished as an interpreter of the scriptures, wrote to Bullinger, informing him that many Englishmen had adopted the opinions of Calvin, and asking for the judgment of the church at Zurich on the important points at issue. On the 3rd of March following Bullinger answered at some length " de providentia 20 Dei, ejusque prsedestinatione electione ac reprobatione, deque libero arbitrio, et quod Deus non sit auctor peccati," stating expressly in wh...« less