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Patience and Confidence; The Strength of the Church
Patience and Confidence The Strength of the Church Author:Edward Bouverie Pusey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: J. H. Parker 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 se... more »lect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Yet even our much-distinguished and blessed Church has not been secure, when she forgot wherein " her great strength lay." In Ireland, for a time, she mingled her counsels with those of a different reformation", joined in turbulent proceedings against her earthly sovereign, and sunk her peculiar character in the cabals of earthly politics. Towards her Romanist fellow-subjects she preserved gentleness and peace, and they had been remarkably favoured11. Yet " God brought fire out of the house of Abimelech to devour the men of Shechem ;" her evil towards Charles He requited upon her own head from those whom she trusted, and among whom she dwelt securely. In this case, again, all things human combined to discover the plot, and in human sight its concealment seemed inexplicablec; a " The British Protestants, transplanted in Ireland, having every moment before their eyes all the horrors of popery, had naturally been carried into the opposite extreme, and had universally adopted the highest principles and practices of the puritans. Monarchy, as well as the hierarchy, was become odious to them; and every method of limiting the authority of the crown, and detaching themselves from the king of England, was greedily adopted and pursued." Hume, Hist. c. 55, who proceeds to mention some of their measures against their king. 1" Sir J. Temple (an Irish Privy-Councillor), Irish Rebellion, p. 14, 15, 81. Declaration of Commons concerning the rise of the Grand Rebellion in Ireland, July 25, 1643, ap. Rushworth, p. iii. vol. ii. p. 346. Hume 1. c. Lord Orrery ap. Nalson, Impartial Colle...« less