Cranmer, Ridley, Latiner, and Jewell, had themselves, as is sometimes pretended, held Calvinistic opinions, is it to be believed that they would have composed a set of Serinons, to be used by the Parochial Clergy in their respective churches, for the avowed purpose of establishing their congregations in a sound faith and a right practice, without even mentioning in them any one of these points? And let it be remembered, that the subjects of of the Homilies are immediately many connected with the Calvinistic system, such as, Original sin, the Salvation of mankind, Faith, Good works, Declining from God, the Nativity, the Passion, the Resurrection, the Descent of the Holy Ghost, the Grace of God, and Repentance.

But though the Homilies contain neither any discussion in support of the Calvinistic doctrines, nor any direct refutation of them, there is a great number of incidental passages, as we have seen, which plainly shew, that the authors were not Calvinists. The little notice taken of these points, and the uncontroversial manner in which when noticed they are mentioned, prove, that when the Homilies were written and published, Calvinistic opinions had made very little progress in England. For, if they had been generally prevalent, or even if they had been embraced by any considerable number of persons, the framers of the Homilies

would

for the times":

would have thought it " necessary to have entered more fully into these subjects, and to have offered a confutation of what they manifestly considered as erroneous doctrines: they would have exposed the new errors of Calvinism in the same manner as they have exposed the old errors of Popery. The truth is, that the introduction of Calvinism, or rather its prevalence in any considerable degree, was subsequent to the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign (k), when all our Public Formularies, our Articles, our Liturgy, and our Homilies, were settled as they now are, with the exception of a few alterations and additions to the Liturgy, not in the least affecting its general spirit and character. Our Reformers followed no Human authority-they had recourse to the Scriptures themselves as their sole guide. And the consequence has been what might have been expected, that our Articles and Liturgy do

not

(k) Fox, in his "History of the Acts and Monuments of the Church," commonly called " Fox's Book of Martyrs," which was published in 1563, the year after our Articles and second Book of Homilies were published, and four years after our Liturgy was settled, says, that our English Reformers, who suffered in Queen Mary's reign, had adopted the opinions of Luther and Zuingle; and the little which he says of Calvin, plainly shews, that Calvin and his doctrines were at that time very little respected in England.

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