Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Sermon, Delivered March 29, 1839 by Thomas F. Davies: And Published by Request of the Congregational Society in Green's Farms
The settlement of New England is one of the results of the Reformation, which we may consider as commencing in Eng land, ih the reign of Henry VIII.
No Protestant should be insensible of the services of Wickliffe, who has been styled the Morning Star of the Reformation, but who may with more propriety be considered as one of those lights which God gave his Church in that dark night, when papacy brooded over the world. By him the New Testament was trans lated into the English language. He was an able and voluminous writer, and maintained doctrines which at the Reformation were reasserted. More than forty years after his death, his bones, and writings were burnt by order of the Council of Constance, his followers persecuted, and the fears of the papacy which with good reason had been excited, were at length quieted by a law of Henry V, which declared that whoever should read the Scrip tures in the mother tongue, should forfeit land, cattle and goods, from their heirs forever, and so be condemned for heretics to God, and most arrant traitors to the land. A period of dark ness intervened between the suppression of the followers of Wicklifi'e and the Reformation.
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