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more , of their lives , and a , catalogue of their publications . Some justice would thus be done to the memory of tJUese much-injured confessors , and materials would be brought together for a complete history of heresy in
Great Britain- In compiling such a list , great use may be made of the writers against the Unitarians , of whom , also , a list would be amusing , and helpful to the ecclesiastical historian * I should reckon , upon the aid of your well-read and able correspondent , VermzcutuSy in this work * EPISCOPUS .
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294 Book-Worm * No . XXL
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Book-Worm . No . XXL Sir , April 2 , 3 , 1815 . THE last Piece annexed to the " Fifty Reasons" of Anthony XJ 1-rick , is attributed to the Duchess af York , the eldest daughter of the Earl of Clarendon , by whom she had been educated in the strictest forms of the
established of the Church of England , The duchess for some vears after her marriage , probably till her father ' s exile , in 1667 , had been regarded as a Protestant . She , however , drew up or
adopted the following paper , which , after her death , was shewn to Burnet by the duke , " all writ in her own hand . " ( O-T \ 1 . 309 . )
A Copy of a Paper written by the late J ) uchess of York . St . James ' s , Aug . 20 , 1670 . It is so reasonable to expect , that a person always bred up in the Church of England , and as well instructed in the doctrine of it as the best ditines and her capacity
could make her , should be liable to many censures for leaving that , and making * her * self a roember of the Roman Catholic Church , to which , I confess , I vras one of the greatest enemies it ever had , that I choose rather to endeavour to satisfy my friends , by reading this paper , than to have
the trouble to answer all the questions that may daily be asked me : And first , I do protest in the presence of Almighty God ; That llo person , man or woman , directly nor indirectly , ever said any thing to me ( since I came into England ) or used the least endeavour to make nae change my religion : It is a blesging I wholly owe to Almighty
God ; and , I hope , tke hearing of a prater I daily made Iniw , ever since I was in France and Flanders j where , seeing the devotion of the Catholics , ( though I had very little myself ) I made it nay continual request to Almighty God , that if I were not , I might before I died , be in the true religWn : I did not in the least doubt , but that 1 was so , and never had any raapmer
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for three the most abominable ones that were ever heard of among Christians : Firsl j | ry VIII . renounces the pope ' s authorit y be . cause he would not give him leave to ' pait with his wife and marry another in her life time : Secondly , Edward VI . was a child and governed by his uncle , who made bis estate out of church lands .
of scruple till November last ; * h * n * j ing a book called « The History oftW formation , " by Dr . Heylin , * which Iul heard very much commended and hi been told , if I ever had any doubt in m religion , that would settle me : Instead It which , I found it the description of the horridest sacriliges in the world ; and could find no reason why we left the Chinch but
And then Queen Elizabeth , who hein * no lawful heiress to the crown , could hate no way to keep it , but by renouncing a church , that could never suffer so unlawful a thing to be done by one of her children . I confess , X cajmot think the Holy Ghost could ever be in such councils : and it is
very strange , that , if the bishops had no design , bat ( as they say ) the restoring to us the doctrine of the primitive church , they should never think upon it till Henrj VIII . made the breach , Upon so unlawful a pretence .
These scruples being raised , I began . to consider of the difference between the C * tholicsand us , and examined them , as well as I could , by the holy scripture ; which , though I do not pretend to he able to uaderstand , yet there are somethings Ifotra
been so long without finding them out : As , the real presence in the blessed sacrament ; the infallibility of the church ; con £ ession , and praying' for the dead . After this , I spoke severally to two of the test bishops we have in England , f who both
* In the following passage Father 0 r « leans attributes the conversion of the Duke as well as his Duchess to this work , which James met with at BrusseU . " Ce fit » Bruxelles , au sortir de France , qu' » P assez de terns pour lire , il tomba sur l'Histoire d'Heylin . II la lut avec atteft tes dont
tion , et &u travers des divers pretex les Protestans s'efforcent de colorer If schisme de leur pais , il reconnut evideinment que cette separation si contrai re a a maxime d'unite qui est \ e fondoment & FEglise , etoit , en effet , Fouvragp *» Fusions humaiiies . La Duchesse d'York > J ^ un evenement remarquabie , fut . « en lisant le meme Uvre" Hist , des w
iii , 386 and 388 . .. j t In the margin these are describeo Sheldon , Archbishop of C ™** " * 1 *'* ^ . Blandford , Bishop of Worcester . Acco fng to Burnet , Mforley , Bishop of mBC ter , « had been her father con [^ ' the practised secret confusion to mit * ^ time that sh « ivat twerYe years m-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/30/
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