cipal improvements was the omission of the Athanasian creed; and he had concerted a bill for this purpose with the duke,. when the effects of the French Revolution put off for a long period all such measures. He had intended to submit the plan to the king, as well as the archbishops, in the first instance. The king was deemed favourable to such a reform, from the anecdote related by Dr. Heberden of what happened one Sunday in Windsor Chapel. "The clergyman," says Bishop Watson, in the anecdotes of his own life, on a day when the Athanasian creed was to be read, began with Whosoever will be saved, &c. The king, who usually responded with a loud voice, was silent; the minister repeated in a higher tone his Whosoever; the king continued silent, at length the apostles' creed was repeated by the minister, and the king followed him throughout with a distinct and audible voice."

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JOHN HUSS.

It was at Constance that John Huss, and Jerome of Prague, the first martyrs of the Reformation, sealed their testimony. They were

burned without the city, on a plain of inconsiderable extent, watered by the Rhine. There is something, now that four centuries have closed upon this awful scene, deeply impressive in the

warning of Huss, addressing for the last time, in the church where he was unrobed, preparatory to his execution, the assembled multitude of his "Centum revolutis annis, Deo re"spondebitis et mihi." "Let a hundred years "be fled, and you will answer to God and me."

aecusers.

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