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Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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es, as the bearer of the keys of earth and heaven, they had learnedto regard him as the Beast, the Antichrist, the Man of Sin. It was notto be expected that they would immediately transfer to an upstartauthority the homage which they had withdrawn from the Vatican ;that they would submit their private judgment to the authority of aChurch founded on private judgment alone ; that they would be afraidto dissent from teachers who themselves dissented from what had latelybeen the universal faith of western Christendom. It is easy to conceivethe indignation which must have been felt by bold and inquisitive spirits,glorying in newly acquired freedom, when an institution younger bymany years than themselves, an institution which had, under their owneyes, gradually received its form from the passions and interests of acourt, began to mimic the lofty style of Rome. Since these men could not be convinced, it was determined thatthey should be persecuted. Persecution produced its natural effect on
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MARY TUDORFrom the painting by Johannes Corvus in the National Portrait Gallery 52 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap. them. It found them a sect : it made them a faction. To their hatred of the Church was now added hatred of the Crown. The two senti- ^, . ments were intermingled ; and each embittered the other. Their re- _-■•-----„--.- publican The opinions of the Puritan concerning the relation of ruler and subject were widely different from those which wereinculcated in the Homilies. His favourite divines had, both by pre-cept and by example, encouraged resistance to tyrants and perse-cutors. His fellow Calvinists in France, in Holland, and in Scotland,were in arms against idolatrous and cruel princes. His notions, too,respecting the government of the state took a tinge from his notionsrespecting the government of the Church. Some of the sarcasms whichwere popularly thrown on episcopacy might, without much difficulty,be turned against royalty ; and many of the arguments which wereused t

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