Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the Reformation in Europe, Vol. 4: In the Time of Calvin; England, Geneva, France, Germany, and Italy
The most important fact of that epoch in Great Britain is the act by which the English Church re sumed its independence. It was attended by a pecu liar circumstance. When Henry VIII. Emancipated his people from the papal supremacy, he proclaimed himself head of the Church. And hence, of all Pro testant countries, England is the one in which Church and State are most closely united. The legislators of the Anglican Church understood afterwards the danger presented by this union, and consequently declared, in the Thirty-seventh Article (of the Civil Magistrates), that, 'where they attributed to the King's Majesty the chief government, they gave not to their prmces the ministering of God's Word.' This did not mean that the king should' not preach such an idea did not occur to any one; but that the civil power should not take upon itself to determine the doctrines of the divine Word.
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