. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. who had been one of the mostillustrious instruments of the reformation in England,fell a sacrifice to her fury. This odious scene of per-secution was happily concluded in the year 1558, bythe death of the queen, who left no issue; and as soonas her successor, the lady Elizabeth, ascended thethrone, all things assumed a new and pleasing illustrious princess, whose sentiments, counsels,and projects, breathed a spirit super
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. who had been one of the mostillustrious instruments of the reformation in England,fell a sacrifice to her fury. This odious scene of per-secution was happily concluded in the year 1558, bythe death of the queen, who left no issue; and as soonas her successor, the lady Elizabeth, ascended thethrone, all things assumed a new and pleasing illustrious princess, whose sentiments, counsels,and projects, breathed a spirit superior to the naturalsoftness and delicacy of her sex, exerted this vigorousand manly spirit in the defence of oppressed con-science and expiring liberty, broke anew the despoticyoke of papal authority and superstition ; and deliver-ing her people from the bondage of Rome, establishedthat form of religious doctrine and ecclesiastical go-vernment which still subsists in England. This reli-gious establishment difiers in some respects from theplan that had been formed by those whom Edward employed for promoting the cause of the Reform- 216 THE ^?:i ation, and approaches nearer to the rites and disci-pline of former times; though it is widely different,and in the most important points entirely opposite tothe principles of the Roman hierarchy. The cause of the Reformation underwent in Ire-land the same vicissitudes and revolutions that hadattended it in England. When Henry VIIL, afterthe abolition of the papal authority, was declared su-preme head upon earth of the church of England,George Brown, a native of England, and a monk ofthe Augustine order, whom that monarch had created,in the year 1535, archbishop of Dublin, began to actwith the utmost vigour in consequence of this change PUBLIC UBRARt DEATH OF QUEEN MARY. THE REFORMATION. 219 in tlie hierarchy. He purged the churches of his dio-cese from superstition in all its various forms, pulleddown images, destroye
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