Given in the name of Saraß Freeman (Ellis) Wheeler (1826-1891) of Watertown Massachusetts By Her son korace b. Wheeler MA. B.D. (harvard) 1903 PREFACE. HE Reformation has been well described as "the greatest achievement in English history." To emphasise its true character and aim, so strangely ignored in the Ritualistic controversy, is the chief design of the present volume. Rome “It was the main purpose of the then rulers of the Church," the Archbishops declared in their decision in the Incense case, "to put prominently forward the supremacy of the Bible." maintains the supremacy of "the Church": it is the foundation of her entire system. The Reformers rejected the pretensions of the Church, and made the Bible the supreme standard of authority. This was the vital question at issue in the sixteenth century: it is the vital question at issue to-day. 112593 |