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THE

HISTORY

OF THE

REFORMATION

OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

BY

GILBERT BURNET, D. D.

LATE LORD BISHOP OF SARUM.

VOL. III. PART II.

OXFORD,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCCCXXIX.

LEN

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THIS work, which is designed to finish the History of our Reformation, seems reserved to be laid at your MAJESTY's feet; who, we trust, is designed by God to complete the reformation itself.

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To rectify what may be yet amiss, and to supply what is defective among us; to oblige us to live and to labour more suitably to our professior; to unite us more firmly among ourselves; to bury, and for ever to extinguish, the fears of our relapsing again into popery; and to establish a confidence and correspondence with the protestant and reformed churches abroad.

The eminent moderation of the most serene house from which your MAJESTY is descended, gives us auspicious hopes, that as God has now raised your MAJESTY, with signal characters of an amazing providence, to be the head and the chief strength of the reformation; so your MAJESTY will, by a wise and noble conduct, form all these churches into one body; so that though they cannot agree to the same opinions and rituals with us in all points, yet they

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may join in one happy confederacy, for the support of the whole, and of every particular branch of that sacred union.

May this be the peculiar glory of your MAJESTY'S reign; and may all the blessings of heaven and earth rest upon your most august person, and upon all your royal posterity.

This is the daily prayer of him, who is with the profoundest respect,

SIR,

Your MAJESTY'S

most loyal, most obedient, and most

devoted subject and servant,

GI. SARUM.

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