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 LECTURE IV

week I traced the history of the Reformation in England, and we saw in what way it benefited the English Church. This took us down to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. To-night I shall continue the history of religious thought in England from Elizabeth's time to the restoration of monarchy under Charles II. The object which I have in view in this Lecture is not so much to speak about the inner working of the Church of England, as to give the history of the principles of a movement quite alien and opposed to episcopacy. I