The History of Heresies and Their Refutation (Illustrated) by Saint Alphonsus De Liguori

Author:Saint Alphonsus De Liguori [Liguori, Saint Alphonsus De]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Published: 2016-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

II. REIGN OF EDWARD VI

16. -THE DUKE OF SOMERSET, AS GUARDIAN OF EDWARD VI., GOVERNS THE KINGDOM. 17. -HE DECLARES HIMSELF A HERETIC, AND GIVES LEAVE TO THE HERETICS TO PREACH; INVITES BUCER, VERMIGLI, AND OCHINO TO ENGLAND, AND ABOLISHES THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION. 18. -HE BEHEADS HIS BROTHER, THE LORD HIGH ADMIRAL. 19. -HE IS BEHEADED HIMSELF. 20. -DEATH OF EDWARD; THE EARL OF WARWICK MAKES AN ATTEMPT TO GET POSSESSION OF THE KINGDOM, AND IS BEHEADED, BUT IS CONVERTED, AND DIES AN EDIFYING DEATH.

16. Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, was one of the guardians appointed by Henry to his son; he was maternal uncle to the young King, being brother to Jane Seymour, his mother. Although he passed all along as a Catholic, he was a Zuinglian, and as the majority of Edward’s guardians were Catholics, he intrigued with some of the principal nobility of the kingdom, and pointed out how dangerous it would be to their interests that the young King should be left in the hands of those gentlemen; that the consequence would be that they should have, sooner or later, to surrender again the Ecclesiastic property given them by Henry; that the suppressed and ruined churches should be again repaired and rebuilt, to the great impoverishing of the Royal treasury; and that the only way to avoid such evils was that he should be made Governor of the kingdom. He craftily suppressed Henry’s will, and substituted another, in which Edward was declared head of the Church of England, and he was appointed Regent; he then got himself created Duke of Somerset, and took the title of Protector of the Kingdom.

17. No sooner had he got the supreme power into his hands, as Protector, than he at once took off the mask, proclaimed himself a Protestant, and appointed preachers to disseminate the heresy. He prohibited the Bishops from preaching, or ordaining, without the King’s permission, and he then refused permission to anyone to preach, unless to the Zuinglian Ministers.

Among the rest the impious Cranmer, pseudo Archbishop of Canterbury, now began publicly to preach against the Catholic Church, and published a Catechism filled with the wicked doctrines against the Faith, and was not ashamed to marry publicly, with the approbation of the Regent, a woman who lived with him as concubine before he was made Bishop. Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Winchester but deposed from his See for preaching, in London, against the Real Presence was now appointed, by Somerset, principal preacher of the Zuinglian errors. He invited, at the same time, from Strasbourg, three famous ministers of Satan, apostate Religious, well known through all Europe Martin Bucer, now seventy years of age, and three times married; Peter Martyr, and Bernard Ochin and appointed them to Professors Chairs in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, to poison the minds of the poor youths studying there, and he banished every Catholic Professor out of these Colleges. To complete the work of iniquity, he appointed, as tutors to the young

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