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maintenance of religion. [On the 30th of July,1540, three Lutheran clergy-men were burnedand three Roman Catholics beheaded, the latterfor denying the king's spiritual supremacy. Theking's ardent desires that diversities of minds andopinionsFM150should be done away with and unity be‘charitably established' was further promoted bypublishing in 1543 A Necessary Doctrine andErudition for any Christian Man, set forth by theKing's Majesty of England, in which the tenetsof mediaeval theology, except for denial of thesupremacy of the bishop of Rome and theunmistakable assertion of the supremacy of theking, were once more restated. The First PrayerBook of Edward VI was issued in 1549 and wasfollowed in 1552 by the Second Prayer Bookand] "The foundations of the Anglican churchwere laid."— Brit.Revelation 8:9And the third part.— The English part.Of the creatures.— The clergy "apostolically"of the Church of Rome, but actually doingbusiness under Henry VIII. Be it noted that theywere not counted worthy of being called "men."Which were in the sea.— No longer underreligious restraint to the papacy.And had life.— The apostolic succession, fromthe line of popes, etc., described in Rev. 2:13comments.Died.— Were excommunicated by the pope, losttheir "apostolic (?) succession."And the third part.— The English part.Of the ships.— Independent bodies of Christianworshippers called Lollards, followers ofWycliffe.— Mark 4:36; 6:48-51; John 6:21.Were destroyed.— Compelled to acknowledgeHenry VIII as head of the Church or lose theirlives. "Thus, when the English Reformation ofthe 16th century commenced, it derived a newimpulse from the earlier Lollard movement