The Life and Pontificate of Gregory the Seventh, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life and Pontificate of Gregory the Seventh, Vol. 1 of 2With regard to the agents in our English Reforma tion, it forms, of a surety, an item by no means unimportant in the amount of our obligation to them, that they did not that which we seem habitually to acknowledge that they did, and even to laud them for doing. They did not attempt to found a new Church - a word which should hardly be Spoken. They did not, tempted as they were to do so, remove their countrymen from those limits of the holy Church Catholic which the Protestants of various parts of Europe were unhappily led, by a seeming necessity, to overstep. The Anglican Church, as left by her Reformers, continued in the enjoyment of her old constitution, under the guidance of her old line of consecrated governors, as also, though these are minor points, in the possession of most of her old endowments, and in the enjoyment of her old privileges in the state. She did not alter a single letter of the Creeds which had ever formed the summaries of her Faith. She disclaimed, in the strongest terms, all intention of either separating herself from the other members of the Church Catholic, or discarding that Church's ao credited and authoritative teaching. She continued to follow, as her guides in the interpretation of Scripture, the ancient Fathers and catholic Bishops honouring in-them the general voice of_ primitive antiquity, and revering, as the clearest accents of that voice, those four general Councils, which her ancient founder or remodeller, Gregory the Great, had taught her to consider as pre-eminently the landmarks of catholic belief 2.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.