Excerpt from A Sermon, &C This little Sanctuary, in which we are now assembled, * will always be regarded by the English Churchman with feelings of pious sentiment and respect. Here from time immemorial, our sovereigns have worshipped, and our bishops preached; and these walls were the first which heard the sound of our English Liturgy. Here young Edward imbibed the principles of Divine Truth from the lips of Ridley and Cranmer; and here, in the reign of Elizabeth, her Bishops, supported by her united firmness, wisdom, and piety, manfully upheld the principles of the English Reformation, maintaining the equipoise against the Papist on the one hand, and on the other, against those ultra-protestants, who were anxious to introduce the foreign system, and to revolutionize religion instead of reforming the Church. Here too, Charles, who died a martyr for the principles of the Church, - for the Church of England boasts the only royal martyr in the calendar, - sought that strength from: on high, which enabled him to lay down his grey dis crowned head upon the block, with a blessed peace of mind, which a rebel nation, while depriving him of everything else, was unable to take away. Here, ever since, by faithful pastors, our British Sovereigns have The Chapel Royal. 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.