THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER AND RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. VOLUME XXXVII. FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME II. JULY, SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, 1844. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CROSBY. NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO. LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 121 NEWGATE STREET. 1844. THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER AND RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. JULY, 1844. ART. I.-THE ENGLISH REFORMATION.* THE reprint of Burnet's celebrated History of the Reformation of the Church of England, by a New York publishing house, is quite seasonable; and we propose to make it the occasion of offering some remarks on a subject which ought to be, and which, by the influence of recent events and of processes of discussion now in active operation, is likely to become, better understood than it has heretofore been. Protestants, in general, have a vague and indefinite idea of the Reformation. No branch of that great movement is less understood, or more misunderstood, than the Reformation of the English Church. It is quite common to hear it imputed almost wholly to the personal passions of King Henry VIII. When thus By * 1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. GILBERT BURNET, D. D., Late Lord Bishop of Salisbury. With a copious Index. Revised and corrected, with additional Notes, and a Preface, by the Rev. E. Nares, D. D., Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. New York: 1843. 3 vols. 8vo. 2. Sixteen Lectures on the Causes, Principles, and Results of the British Reformation. By JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Vermont. Philadelphia: 1844. 12mo. pp. 387. VOL. XXXVII. -4TH S. VOL. II. NO. I. 1 |