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The Fifty Years Struggle of the Scottish Covenanters 1638 - 88 by James Dodds

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Author: James Dodds
Number of Pages: 94 pages
Published Date: 04 Feb 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781235706233
File size: 19 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... XII. THE REVOLUTION OF 1688. After James's accession in 1688, at least after he had got rid of all his foes by the discomfiture of Argyle and Monmouth, his policy, as we have already noticed, underwent a sudden and total change. Having, as he fancied, reached the summit of absolute power, he recurred to his long-cherished project of establishing Romanism in Britain. He commenced his operations by affecting to extend toleration to all classes of Nonconformists, and by repealing the tests and penal laws on which the Church of England had reared her supremacy. This looked all very well on the outside; but the nation were aware that these pseudo-liberal measures were only meant to usher in the old Popish domination. Here once more came up the point, and the only point, where all the religious sects and all the political parties of the country could unite. Whatever their differences otherwise, the attempt to introduce Popery was sure to bind th-m fast together. The alarm once given, they were all up in arms against the Court. The Anglicans contributed their corporate influence, their weight of numbers, the learning and eloquence of their highlytrained dignitaries; the Nonconformists their active and fervid zeal; the Royalists their old English prejudices, and their old English swords, if needed; the Popular party their aristocratic chiefs, their traditions and watchwords, and the memory of their recently martyred Russells, and Sidneys, and Baillies. It was the movement of a nation. It was decisive and resistless. Besides, the complication of European politics at the moment rendered it necessary to wrest the empire of Britain from the corrupt, cruel, detested hands of the Stuarts, who, from the strong, racy, original stem, had, in the two last of the race, ..."

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