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devout contemplation of the Word of God, rather than
the metaphysical subtleties of the schoolmen
teaching which should simplify worship and remove
the accretions with which superstition had overlaid
the venerable truths of the Church's faith.
Strangely enough, the hand which was to initiate a
change which was destined ere long to result in that
great work, the English Reformation, was that of the
monarch who, in 152X, had sent to Pope Leo X, his
reply to the great German reformer, and received in
return the proud title of Defender of the Faith.