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THE CHURCH

UNDER

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

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"IN the whole carriage of This Work I have assumed unto myself the freedom of a just historian; concealing nothing out of fear, nor speaking anything for favour; delivering nothing for a Truth without good authority; but so delivering that Truth as to witness for me that I am neither biassed by love or hatred, nor overswayed by partiality and corrupt affections."-Peter Heylyn, D.D.

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Fide et constantia.

THE CHURCH UNDER
QUEEN ELIZABETH.

An Historical Sketch.

BY

THE REV. FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, D.D. 18 2 2~ 9

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VICAR OF ALL SAINTS', LAMBETH."

AUTHOR OF HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE REFORMATION,"

ETC., ETC.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON

THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH."

"That bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth, of most
happy memory."-The Epistle Dedicatory of King
James's version of the Bible.

LONDON:

W. H. ALLEN AND CO
13, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL, S.W.

1880.

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"Coming nearer home, he said that England had lost the perfection of the unity of Faith and the unity of the Church; but though not a Catholic people it was Christian still. Taken in its millions it was a baptized people. Through the neglect and sin of fathers and mothers, multitudes grew up without baptism; but the English people still believed in Revelation, in the coming of Jesus Christ into the World as the Saviour of men, and in the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures as the Word of God."-H. E. Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. (1879.)

"I will say that battered as is that old hull [the Church of England], it is a great breakwater between the raging waves of Infidelity and Catholic Truth in this land; that it has held so long together, under so many disadvantages and difficulties, must be a work of Divine Providence for some great end which remains to be developed."-Augustus Welby Pugin. (1853.)

"Doubtless the National Church has hitherto been a serviceable breakwater against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own. How long this will last in the years now before us, it is impossible to say: for the Nation drags down its Church to its own level."-H. E. John Henry Čardinal Newman. (1864.)

"Let only Catholics co-operate with their Anglican brethren, and Anglicans co-operate with Catholics, for the restoration of mutual and Corporate Unity: for the triumph of Catholic Truth, not for the destruction of anything that men hold and cling to as the outward and living form of their visible existence; and the glorious result, which every good man must wish for, and which none but evil men would deprecate, will soon crown our mutual and combined efforts."-Ambrose IMP. De Lisle. (1857.)

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WHO ARE PREPARED TO LOOK OUR DIFFICULTIES
AS ENGLISH CHURCHMEN FAIRLY IN THE FACE;
AND WHO,

HAVING REALIZED THEM, ARE ENDEAVOURING,

IN A CONSERVATIVE SPIRIT AND BY A REASONABLE METHOD,
TO OVERCOME THEM;

THE GENEROUS, THE SELF-SACRIFICING, THE ZEALOUS,
FRIENDS, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN,
ABROAD AND AT HOME,
LABOURING,

IN THE FAITH AND FEAR OF GOD, AND ON
NO SANDY FOUNDATION,

FOR

CORPORATE REUNION,

THESE VOLUMES

ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

IN THE HOPE, WITH A BLESSING FROM ON HIGH,

OF

RESTORED PEACE AND VISIBLE UNITY,

UNDER THE PATERNAL RULE OF

THE PRIMATE OF CHRISTENDOM.

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