ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENTS OF ANGLICANISM; OR, A HISTORY OF THE LITURGIES, HOMILIES, ARTICLES, BIBLES, PRINCIPLES AND GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM OF THE Ghurch of England. BY THE REV. W. WATERWORTH, S.J. LONDON. LONDON: BURNS & LAMBERT, 17 PORTMAN STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE, AND 63 PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLIV. 110. a. 151. TO THE VERY REV. THE REV. P. BECK X, GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, This Work IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS PATERNITY'S OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. IN a former Volume, I have traced the spiritual connexion of England and the Holy See, from the times of Lever Maur, who applied to Rome in the second century for instructers in the faith, down to the sixteenth century, when Henry the Eight dissolved the ancient union, and attached to the English Crown the rights and prerogatives which had till then been unhesitatingly, and on principle, conceded to the Roman Pontiffs. To describe the grounds on which this transfer of power was based; to trace the origin of the liturgical, symbolical, and other authoritative works which appeared in the reigns of Henry, and of his two children, Edward and Elizabeth; and to examine in detail every important circumstance connected with the Bible, which after the separation of England from Rome had been effected, was proclaimed to be, what it has ever since been believed to be, the only rule of faith of Anglicanism, are the objects which I propose to myself in the following pages. The subjects referred to are obviously of great importance; for on them turns the whole question of the divine. or human origin of the English Reformation. If it can be shown that passion and not revelation; that arbitrary power and not divine right, were considered in the establishment of the Church of England; if further it can be demonstrated that the symbolical and doctrinal works of b |