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CHAPTER XII.

The Heresies of the Sixteenth Century (continued)

ARTICLE I.-The Schism of England.

§ I.-The Reign of Henry VIII.

1. Religion of England previous to the Reformation. 2. Henry VIII.

marries Catherine of Arragon, but becomes enamoured of Anna

Boleyn. 3. The wicked Wolsey suggests the invalidity of the

marriage; Incontinence of Anna Boleyn; suspicion that she was the

daughter of Henry. 4. Calvin refuses to have his cause tried by

English Judges; Wolsey is made prisoner, and dies at Leicester.

5. Henry seizes on the property of the Church, and marries Anna

Boleyn. 6. He obliges the Clergy to swear obedience to him, and

Cranmer declares the marriage of Catherine invalid. 7. The Pope

declares Anna Boleyn's marriage invalid, and excommunicates Henry,

who declares himself Head of the Church. 8. He persecutes Pole,

and puts More and Fisher to death. 9. The Pope declares Henry

unworthy of the kingdom; the King puts Anna Boleyn to death, and

marries Jane Seymour. 10. The Parliament decides on Six Articles

of Faith; the Bones of St. Thomas of Canterbury are burned; Jane

Seymour dies in giving birth to Edward VI. 11. The Pope endeavours

to bring Henry to a sense of his duty, but does not succeed. 12. He

marries Anne of Cleves; Cromwell is put to death. 13. Henry

marries Catherine Howard, whom he afterwards put to death, and

then marries Catherine Parr. 14. His remorse in his last sickness.

15. He makes his Will, and dies.

16. The Duke of Somerset, as Guardian of Edward VI., governs

the Kingdom. 17. He declares himself a Heretic, and gives leave to

the Heretics to preach; invites Bucer, Vermigli, and Ochino, to Eng-

land, and abolishes the Roman Catholic Religion. 18. He beheads his

Brother, the Lord High-Admiral. 19. He is beheaded himself.

20. Death of Edward; the Earl of Warwick makes an attempt to get

possession of the Kingdom, and is beheaded, but is converted, and dies

an edifying death.

§ III.-Mary's Reign

21. Mary refuses the title of Head of the Church; repeals her

Father's and Brother's Laws; Cranmer is condemned to be burned,

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and dies a heretic; Mary sends off all heretics from her Court.

22. Cardinal Pole reconciles England with the Church; her Marriage

with Philip II., and Death.

§ IV.—The Reign of Elizabeth

23. Elizabeth proclaimed Queen; the Pope is dissatisfied, and she de-

clares herself a Protestant. 24. She gains over the Parliament through

the influence of three of the Nobility, and is proclaimed Head of the

Church. 25. She establishes the form of Church Government, and,

though her belief is Calvinistic, she retains Episcopacy, &c. 26. Ap-

propriates Church Property, abolishes the Mass; the Oath of

Allegiance; Persecution of the Catholics. 27. Death of Edmund

Campion for the Faith. 28. The Pope's Bull against Elizabeth.

29. She dies out of Communion with the Church. 30. Her successors

on the Throne of England; deplorable state of the English Church.

31. The English Reformation refutes itself.

ARTICLE II.—The Anti-Trinitarians and Socinians ..

§ I.-Michael Servetus.

32. Character of Servetus; his Studies, Travels, and False Doc-

trine. 33. He goes to Geneva; disputes with Calvin, who has him

burned to death.

§ II.-Valentine Gentilis, George Blandrata, and Bernard

Ochino

34. Valentine Gentilis; his impious doctrine. 35. He is punished

in Geneva, and retracts. 36. Relapses, and is beheaded. 37. George

Blandrata perverts the Prince of Transylvania; disputes with the

Reformers; is murdered. 38. Bernard Ochino; his life while a Friar,

his perversion, and flight to Geneva. 39. He goes to Strasbourg, and

afterwards to England, with Bucer; his unfortunate death in Poland.

§ III.-The Socinians

40. Perverse Doctrine of Lelius Socinus. 41. Faustus Socinus; his

travels, writings, and death. 42. Errors of the Socinians.

CHAPTER XIII.

Heresies of the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries

ARTICLE I.-Isaac Perieres, Mark Anthony de Dominis,

William Postellus, and Benedict Spinosa.

1. Isaac Perieres, Chief of the Preadamites, abjures his heresy.

2. Mark Anthony de Dominis; his errors and death. 3. William Pos-

tellus; his errors and conversion. 4. Benedict Spinosa, author of a

new sort of Atheism. 5. Plan of his impious system; his unhappy

death.

ARTICLE II.-The Errors of Michael Baius

6. Michael Baius disseminates his unsound doctrine, and is opposed.

7. St. Pius V. condemns seventy-nine Propositions of Baius, and he

abjures them. 8. Retractation written by Baius, and confirmed by Pope

Urban VIII.

ARTICLE III.-The Errors of Cornelius Jansenius

9. Cornelius, Bishop of Ghent, and Cornelius, Bishop of Ipres; his

studies and degrees. 10. Notice of the condemned Work of Janse-

nius. 11. Urban VIII. condemns the Book of Jansenius in the Bull

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