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    &l ? ftlft ] i $ f ^^ of Reformation left incomplete i ^ nomatteir of Surprise , wben the circumstanced of the times lire kept in mind . When iv 6 reflect upon the many and various difficulties with wMch Crannler had to contend , we Admire him for doing so much , rather than censure him for not doing more . Admirable indeed were the temper , the judgment , and the caution , with which he steered his course among the rocks , and shoals , and quicksands , which every where surrounded' him , through the fierce despotism , the fiery passions , and conceited arrogance of intellect , of Henry the Eighth , and the secularity and avarice , the deadly animosities and complicated intrigues of those who after his death conducted

    the government of the country . * The Reformation , one of the greatest pferiods of human improvement , was a time of trouble and confusion . The vast structure of superstition and tyranny , which had been for ages in rearing , and which \ vas combined with the interest of the great and the many , which was moulded into the laws , the manners , the civil institutions of nations / and blended with the frame and policy of states , could not be brought to the ground without struggle , nor could it fell without a violent concussion of * itself and all about it . 'f

    " Upon the hcceSsion of Elizabeth , her object was , as quickly as possible , to restore the national religion to the state in which it was at the death of her brother ; and thua to have as little discussion on the subject as possible . ADJprefle " nsiye of , tie ^ fluence b oth of the Pu ritan s and of the Papists—t ? ie lUtterof ^ hofe Weie contmuiali yp lotting a ^ whst her authority and he ¥ life—^ hft - s ^ nsMvel ^ jfe ^ lchis of any thing that might appear , however rembtely , to A ^ t i ^ . iilfdk ^^^ i ^ &g ^ iive and ecclesiastical supremacy , her tvish was . that the ifiinaB of he * subjects should be agitated as little as possible by questions connected with religion . ) j' / -i | 1 Her successor wa , s not less apprehensive of the increasing influence of Jfyritanism ; aud the pious though not always well-judging men who framed the Millenarian petitions , asked so much , that they failed to obtain some

    tjim ^ s wliicti raight perhaps have been advantageously granted to theni . The wild and levelling fanaticism which prevailed during the great Rebellion , in-^ l ^ fed " "^^' ' ^ ' ^^^ a fatal wound on sound religion . One 6 t \ its eyil conseinufeyce ^ was ^ that it naturally brbught lipbn sevetal of the leading men among tW ^ fittoi ^ tiJen of ekdltedf piefcy ; 6 f isirtffuldr honesty , and 8 ti * mght-forward , / uneomprotni ^ itig i ^ al , ^ degree Of discredit « nd aiispicion which they did not reallyi adsbrve . At the Savoy confererioe ^ , almost immediately after the Reslii ^ WfiMtti fo&iobii ^ QteMithtJ&ri ^ bitough t forward ; byi the Presbyterians , ac ^ ytff yfl pliei ?)^ ik ^ f ^ m ^ m ^ Mn ^ nm ^ if . be ^ p f eotyvqe * a strong eibiffi % A&jito # WM mM ^ m ^ jSmm ^^ f # R % 1 conference at the of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 824, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/24/