Excerpt from Ecclesiastical Biography, or Lives of Eminent Men, Connected With the History of Religion in England, Vol. 2 of 6: From the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution Our godly Foreqfathcu, to whom, under God, we owe the purity of our Religion, and come of u hich laid down their lives for the defence of the same, -they had no purpose, nor hati thev any warrant, to set up a new Religion, but to reform the old; by purging it from those innovations, which in tract of tune (some sooner, some later) had mingled with it, and cor rupted it, both in doctrine and worship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.