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    tion must be the unavoidable consequence . Henry ( he Eighth had been en . titled hy the pope , Defender of the Faith s a convertible term , whic ^ , as Lord Orford observed , has equally suited a popish or

    protestant , an episcopalian , or even a presbyterian , prince . Henry now added the title of Supreme Head of the Church of England ; and was complimented by the Reformers , as a man after God ' s own heart , with gross flattery in a moral sense , however the

    expression may be providentially correct . I refer to a curious specimen of picture-writings on the frontispiece of Cranmer ' s Bible , 1539 , a splendid copy of which is preserved in the British Museum . An engraving of this frontispiece , is in Lewis ' s Complete History of

    English Translations of the Bible , 1739 y from whence I copy his description , as the book is not How common , and it may serve to exemplify our Reformers' courtly notion of the Bible , as a grant from the crown to the people .

    ** On the top is a representation of the Almighty in the clouds of heaven , with both his hands stretched out , and two label's going from his mouth . On that going towards his right hand , are the following words , Verbum quod e gved&etw deme n tion revertetur ad

    tfie vacuum , sed facie t qucecunque volui , Esa . lv . [ 11 . ] His left hand points to the king , who is represented kneeling at some distance , bare-headed , and his hands lifted

    up towards heaven , with his crown on the jground ( before him , and ft ^ J £ ?» # g o * it of his mouth . On # 1 $ label ) which cpcnet > frown the A ^» i # i ty ltufis tjbjf te #$ t , Invent mirum juxta cormeum * out faciet

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    omkes votuntates meas Ac . xiii , £ 22 . ] 10 which answers that proceeding from the king , ljucerna pedibus meis xerbum tuum , Psal . cxix [ 105 . ] Underneath the Almighty is the king ajain repre-r sented , sitting in his throne , with 1

    his armsbefore him at his feet . On his right hand stand two bishops bare-headed , " and their mitres on the ground , in token , as it should seem of their acknowledge ^ ment of the king ' s supremacy . The king gives to the foremost a book shut , with th ^ se w rds on

    the cover , verb u at dei , and these words on a lab < l , going out of his mouth , H * ec precipe et doce , Tit . ii . [ 15 . ] The Bishop receives it , bending his right knee . On the king ' s left hand stand several of the Lords temporal , to one of whom he delivers a book clasped ,

    with vekbum dei on the . cover of it , and the following words on one label , A me constitutum est et decretum ut in universo intperio et regno me » tremiscant et paveant deurn viventrm , D inrel vi * [ 26 . ] and on another label this text , Qund jv $ ium est judicate ita parvum audictis ut \ magnum ^ Deut . primo . [ 17- ] The nobleman receiv . s the book , bending h » s left

    knee . Underneath the bishops , stands archbishop Cranmer ^ with his mitre on his head , and habrted in his rochet or srole over it . Before him is one kneeling with a shaven crown , and habited in a surplice , to whom the Archbishop delivers a book rl&i « p « 'd 9 with the words vehbum i > e j , on the cover of U , and saving to him these words , a > they are in a label , coming out of his mouth , Pascite quod vb vohis est gregefn CA ^ ris / i , 1 Pet .

    v , [ 2 } Under the lard ' s temporal stands Lord CromweL the king *

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    Sketch of English Protestant PersecUiion .- *~ Letter ' I * 41

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/41/