CONTENTS OF VOL. VI. The Church of England Takes the Middle Course, &c...... 74 The Pretended Antiquity of the Papal Church The Church in Wales On the Use of Cathedrals The Foundation of Cathedrals 97 121 145 .169, 193, 217 241 265 Norwich, 99. St. Paul's, 122. St. Asaph, 147. Bangor, 170. Llandaff, 194. St. David's, 219. Exeter, 243. Can- SCENES AND SKETCHES FROM MEMORY. No. XII. I. The Village Church, 10. II. The Village Pastor, 37. 6 277 ..22, 48, 71, 118, 142, 166, 189, 209, 236, 261, 283 POETRY. 216, 240, 264, 284 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MORE ANCIENT THAN THE CHURCH OF ROME. THE question "Where was the Church of England before Luther?" was one proposed by Cardinal Bellarmine, the Jesuit Campian, and others, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and of James I. Many elaborate works were published in answer to it. It might be retorted with greater truth upon the Romanists, "Where was the Romish religion before the Council of Trent?" which confirmed all the innovations of Popery, and was concluded only about the year 1563, long after Luther began to preach against the profligate sale of indulgences. The Romish religion comes into the world 1564 years too late to be the religion of the true Church of Christ; because all the dogmas peculiar to the Romish Church were never collected together in one formulary, until Pius IV. reduced them into the form of a creed, by annexing twelve additional articles to the Nicene Creed, and publishing the whole in a bull as a creed in the year 1564, and which is now called, after him, Pope Pius' Creed. B |