Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . THE BEFOKMATION IN SCOTLAND. 303 THE REFORMATION. We Lave now reached a Full Stop. The Bad Lives of Ecclesiastics chieflyaccelerated the Culmination at which we have arrived: Doctrines were theafter-birth. The Licentiousness by which the Christian Keligion was uni-versally disfigured, had grown to a greater height in Scotland than in anyother Nation within the pale of the Western Church. Superstition, also,and Imposture mixed with Eeligion, gained an easy admission among a rudeand ignorant people. The full half of the wealth of the Nation belonged tothe
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . THE BEFOKMATION IN SCOTLAND. 303 THE REFORMATION. We Lave now reached a Full Stop. The Bad Lives of Ecclesiastics chieflyaccelerated the Culmination at which we have arrived: Doctrines were theafter-birth. The Licentiousness by which the Christian Keligion was uni-versally disfigured, had grown to a greater height in Scotland than in anyother Nation within the pale of the Western Church. Superstition, also,and Imposture mixed with Eeligion, gained an easy admission among a rudeand ignorant people. The full half of the wealth of the Nation belonged tothe Clergy, and the greater part of this was in the hands of a few individuals,who had the command of the whole body. Avarice and the love of secularpomp reigned among the Superior Orders. Bishops and Abbots rivalled thefirst Nobility in magnificence, and preceded them in honours; they werePrivy Councillors, and Lords of Session as well as of Parliament, and hadlong engrossed the principal offices of State. A vacant Bishopric or Abbacycall
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