. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. ridge, and Richard Cox, who instructed him in theProtestant faith. During his short reign the religiousinstruction of the people was urged, aud the cause ofProtestantism advanced. The statute of the six arti-cles, sometimes called the Bloody Statute, enactedunder the reign of his father, was repealed, and anew liturgy, or Book of Common Prayer, drawn mass was changed into the communion ; con-fession to the priest was made optional ; the EnglishBible was placed in every chu
. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. ridge, and Richard Cox, who instructed him in theProtestant faith. During his short reign the religiousinstruction of the people was urged, aud the cause ofProtestantism advanced. The statute of the six arti-cles, sometimes called the Bloody Statute, enactedunder the reign of his father, was repealed, and anew liturgy, or Book of Common Prayer, drawn mass was changed into the communion ; con-fession to the priest was made optional ; the EnglishBible was placed in every church ; marriages by theclergy were permitted; the removal of all images andpictures from the churches was ordered; and theceremouies of bearing palms on Palm Sunday, caudleson Candlemas-day, ashes on Ash Wednesday, audsome of the rites used on Good Friday and Easterwere forbidden. It could hardly be expected that thereform would be a radical one. A revolution inspiritual matters was not attempted, for there wasdanger that it could not be sustained. It was a ref-ormation only that was sought, aud thus in framiug. HATJOHai JaONUiflSNT TQ 7>J2 FDatJATflSBS. HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH. 64a the new liturgy many popish superstitiooa were re-tained, and the Roman manual was, to a great extent,adopted as its model. But, as in every reform themost speedy and thorough eradication of old errorsis in the end the surest and safest method, so thetimid or conservative policy pursued under Edwardnot only failed to appease the opponents of reform,but fell far short of meeting the requirements of thereformers, who were eager to destroy the faintestrelics of Romanism. The result of this policy was Puritanism ; and thefirst Puritan was John Hooper, an Oxford had severely denounced, under Henry, theprovisions of the Bloody Statute and fled to Ger-many, where he pursued his studies in Greek, Latin,and Hebrew, and became a learned scholar and to London under the reign of Ed
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