Excerpt from Christian Union Necessary for Religious Progress and Defense King James I. Had the same Utopian dream of the necessity of outward uniformity for, inward unity, and so he declared: I will have one doctrine and one discipline, one religion in substance and in ceremony. 2 By the Act of Uniformity two thousand ministers, among the most zealous in the land, were separated from their flocks, and every fifth flock was without a Shepherd. The desired harvest came not from this sowing. The whole stormy career of the English people and Church from 1560 to 1662 proves the utter inability of mere legislation to promote unity of soul by ordaining outward uni formity. 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.