[Henry VIII And His Court by Louise Muhlbach]@TWC D-Link bookHenry VIII And His Court CHAPTER VIII 10/27
And this, my daughter, is the work that God and the will of His holy representative have placed in your hands.
A noble, glorious, and at the same time profitable work, for it makes you a queen! But I repeat, be cautious, never irritate the king by contradiction.
Without their knowing it, we must lead the wavering where salvation awaits them. For, as we have said, he is a waverer; and in the haughty pride of his royalty, he has the presumption to wish to stand above all parties, and to be himself able to found a new Church, a Church which is neither Catholic nor Protestant, but Ms Church; to which, in the six articles, the so-called 'Bloody Statute' he has given its laws. "He will not be Protestant nor Catholic, and, in order to show his impartiality, he is an equally terrible persecutor of both parties.
So that it has come to pass that we must say, 'In England, Catholics are hanged, and those not stich are burned.' [Footnote: Leti, vol.I, p. 144.
f Tytler, p.
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