From Edward E. to the Commonwealth.
SECTION 1.-1547-1553. REIGN OF EDWARD.
A reign, however brief, distinguished as having no parallel in
British history, with regard to the printing and publication of
the Sacred Scriptures in the language of the people,
SECTION II.-1553-1558. REIGN OF QUEEN MARY.
A reign, discovering the actual state of the nation, as such; but
one, however painful in its details, which so far from retarding
the progress of divine truth, only deepened the impression of
its value; and as it became the occasion, so it afforded the
opportunity for the Sacred Scriptures being given afresh to
England, more carefully revised-the exiles from the kingdom
proving, once more, its greatest benefactors,