Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-13
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kindlier feelings 10 .differ with his 5reth :
fea.n. But I equally admire his moral courage
in being so ready to defend the Church o:4
England against gross errors and gross
saisrsgreseak1t:ors". Is nut ou: friend Ush-
her unnecessarily alara,edE Has ne not
set up e man OF straw Of his own making, /
and .hen wen, 10 work and isborcd most
desperately to knock BIN ldownl Judging
from what he Gays ne certainly misappre-
bends the meaning Of the article to which
he refers in yoaE paper Of the week previous.
He seems To 60 on the suppos,tion that |
stated that the church Of England compro-
missed with the church of Rome in such a
ssnse, tiat she IS allied with that church. and
ha.snon5zed with IL 10 doctrines, &c.
The truth il made 40 such statement,
as a careful resd;ug Ct what | said viii show
aoy candid mind. / say in my discourse
that s.Ihe CHURCH Of England was built on
this cotn promise" What compromised
The COMPROMISE which Elizabeth made
with The incorporating church Of Rome,
and he equally uncomPremising iaiitudina-
Ran Protestantism. She attempted 10 ON
promise The two. by devising q system mid
way between The two. Since friend .Ush-
er, who BY the way is net in the haiti OF
using quite 80 severe language when talk
ing with the writer as he his INDUCED in
the astick before Us, since ! say he has
called The particular attention Of the onIna
MIR 20 this poipt. ict Us Look nj II a momen
aud see @h4t are The fac.s as history r%siases
tt,enl.-
The Reformation under Luther had com
me need and WIS struggling against the
Gnu rich Of Rome, and aiso against the civil
power which was uniied with The church oil
Rome. Whiie this was the state vi things
Henry Wifi secaHe dissatisfied with his
vie Catherine and wished TO be divorced
that he might tnsrry smother woinah, for
whom be had conceived a stFe1ig attas hsaeat.
He applied 10 the Pope Tor a divorce, on the
ground that he had conscientious s~cFePfes
aJon, living longer with BIS present. sIe, as
she had been tne wife OF his decea-ed
brother. The Pope was not ~~ilIisg TO aci
readily IN he snatier, and put him of from
line 10 daie with tsffuas EXCUSES.
Henry tired aud Vexed wish his aPpof'gies
and vain promises, adopted ter line aceon-
plisiilag Of parpa - aa exSeSeist suggss-
ted by the fasn0as Thomas CrautBes, who
was q secret friend Vi Luther alsd of his
cause, and No douot was very willing TO
help On the difficulty that was bre wing be-
tween the Prince aud the Pope.
Eranmsr advised Henry 10 obtain the
views of the m0sllearned European Uaiyer-
sites concerning she subject OF his scrupies.
! He did 8 ]. and the greatest part OF the Uni-
s~e4sities .decIsfed ttIal the marriage with .
bretner's widow was unlawful. Consequently
Catharine was divorced, and the beloved
! Anne was tsken as the wife of Henry.
On account of this difficulty in obtsin-
ing a divorce from The Pope Henry re nouneed
bis iuris dictlon and supremacy. and thus de-
hyered The English nation irVm the tyranny
! Of Rome.
Some time a.ter his Henry was declared
by Parliament; aud the people, supreme
Head on earth OF tAs Church of England.
Tnus The power aEa authority of The Pope
| for the time Being sus lost. Now / would
no, say that hae the Pope grati6ed HeHry's
wishes in granting kisa d divorce, we should
| never have heard of seGh q Church as the
Church ofsEngt4nd. but ! will say that the
! facts in history look very much in this direc-
ton. am mon sure but that this die oree
case " rs the oocaSioss oil the eeisteace of this
| Chareh .st0 ahse4 zoe are so much indebted"
L DNt 1St&u6 HT0bCtu WIN StC ui1tOi1s Ar
| though Henry oseFshrew the papal authority
in England. he still adhered TO several of the
most mon streus doctrines Of PoPety, and
besides, he considered the title OF " Head of
the English ChHrc4 y as comforting on him
the same power tlsst had been claimed by
the Roman Peatftfs. And because he as
sutaea this spiritual supremacy, he become
Obnoxious 10 many of those thai had favored
him. He really hindered the reformation in
the end, though Archbishop CranmeF did
much 10 counteract his evil course, as he was
a favorite of the King and q friend of the
reformation. Henry died in I547 and was
succee6ed by Edward VI, who was an mia
! Bic prince and did much for the Protestant
| cause ; but his reign was SO short that he
| could accomplish but little. He was sue
ceeded by his sister Mary, the daughter oil
| Cathariae who had been divorced. Mary
was a bigot Of the Church of Rome, and she
~inaugurated that relapse to Rome which the
caprice of Henry had rendered inevitable.
She was succeeded by Lady Elizabeth, who
| Teinstated the reformation but reserved the
royal claim to spiritual supremacy. But
this restitution did not please all. A diff
Guilty arose. Te satisfy all as she hoped.
Elizabeth fell upon this expedieut. She
caused the Roman Catholic creed, dictptlne
and ritual TO be revised and altogether re-
cast, under direction OF leaders OF some of
the conflicting secis. Thas a new system
was produced which it was claimed, stood mid
way between the incorporating Church
of Rome, and equally uncomprotnising lati-
tudinarian Pretesla ntistIs. This new system
| called Eiizabeth's compromise. 1t was
offensive to the Roman See. It was also
offensive to the true friends of civil and reii-
gious liberty, because they saw that in IFS
Constitution, that which they thought would
eventually snbvert these liberties.
Nevertheless a portion Of the clergy who
had become dependant on the State, mem
bers ofthe privileged classes, early gave in
their adhesion to the compromise. Hence
the compromise daily gained new accessions
and through all the influence and induce.
ments that political power could WELD the
plumber of those sCrowned Clergy" increas-
ed and the Church of England became fully
established. Hence, as | said in my discourse,
that appeared in yeur paper. what say
now, the Church of England aoas bulk on
this Compromise. Now i. my friend "Usher"
will deny this and give the historical fdcts
that disprove n. then he may call my state
ments .sgrave errors, p ana sgross misrepre-
sentations."
l have not said that the Church of Eng
land wss allied with the Church OF Rome, or
that she hufds doctrines in common with her,
aud until | do say SO | would suggest to
friend sUsher'; that he had better have re-
served his article, for it might have had some
point to it. il il had been given 10 refate
such assertions; but to meet the article for
which it eviiently was intebded, it is sin my