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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: their advancing footsteps. The tearful sowing was bringing a harvest of rejoicing, and the men who had confessed their willingness to be as stepping stones to others, in the march toward a lofty ideal, had made an indelible mark upon the history of their time. THE PURITAN. The causes which worked for the establishment of Separatist churches in England, and which finally made it necessary for the most earnest and devoted among them to abandon their native country, still continued in increasing force after the fugitive congregations had established themselves in Holland. From the time when Henry VIII. broke loose from Papal authority and, as Macaulay says, attempted to constitute an Anglican church differing from the Roman Catholic church on the point of the supremacy and on that point alone, down through the short reign of his successor, the boy King Edward, the five rigorous and cruel years of Mary's rule, to the end of the long and brilliant reign of Elizabeth, the last Tudor sovereign, was a period of but seventy years, yet in that time momentous changes were wrought in the civil and religious condition of the people. With Elizabeth's accession the bitter religious persecutions under Mary ceased and peace and social order began to prevail. One marked characteristic of the great queen, imperious though she was, was her desire for the affection and good will of her subjects. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects, were words which sunk deep into the hearts of a people who felt their truth. Though no more self-willed and haughty woman ever wore a crown or withstood more fearlessly any infringement upon what she considered her prerogative, yet in her dealings wi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217717403
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217717403
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 404 gr

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