It is available in hardcopy at: http://www.amazon.com/
It is available online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=3hobAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=rise+and+growth+of+the+anglican+schism+sanders&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OnEBUuSfK4-09gTL2IH4Dw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=rise%20and%20growth%20of%20the%20anglican%20schism%20sanders&f=false
From the title page alone…which is itself informative. Of course, the title itself is chummy and gives the perspective, "the Anglican schism." Also, Mr. Sanders, 1530-1581. A “sometimes” Fellow, New College, Oxford. Ordained in Rome, 1562. His work published in 1585. Following his death, it was continued by a collaborating (English) Papal Romanist priest, Mr. Edward Rishton. Mr. Rishton, BA, Basenose College, Oxford and Missionary Priest of the “Seminary of Douai.” The title page alone is rather full and informative.
The introduction to the entire book, including a brief on Mr. Rishton, is written by David Lewis, MA, in 1877. It affords the Papal or Non-Papal Romanist (e.g. Tractarian types) a review of doctrinal Romanism in England.
This work was originally titled De Origine ac Progressu Schismatis Anglicani and was published in 1585 in Cologne.
This was published in 30 editions: Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese and Polish. The first English edition was published by Mr. Lewis, 1877.
In 1877, Mr. Lewis laments the “incapacity of allowing to others the same deplorable liberty…” This line of complaint in 1877 is strikingly funny and anachronistic. An 1877 jeremiad about Elizabethan persecutions while Papal Romanism excommunicated Ms. E1 Tudor and slaughtered 1000s in Paris? Sheesh. This little section needs to be pulled from the work.
Mr. Lewis notes that Mr. Sanders was:
1. Born in 1527 (contra 1530 on the title page).
2. Mr. Sanders was admitted to New College, Oxford, 6 Aug 1546 and raised to Fellowship in 1548.
3. He resigned his Fellowship and fled England in 1561, never to return home.
4. Ordained in Rome, 1562.
5. Sent by Mr. (pope) Gregory XIII to the Louvain in 1572. We wonder if this was after or before the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and the Papal order to sing the Te Deum Laudamus in the streets as a responsorial to the 1000s whoe were slaughtered in the Pope's name, but we digress.
6. 1573, in Madrid.
7. 1579, appointed the Papal Nuncio to Ireland.
8. 1580, dies.
Protestant reviewers of Mr. Nicholas Sanders
Mr. (Sir) Burghley, the chief advisor to Ms. (Elizabeth 1) Tudor, called Mr. Sanders a “lewde scholar” [sic], a man who “died raving in a phrensy” [sic].
Mr. (dr.) Cox, a Marian exile of the 16th century (and antagonist to Mr. John Knox in Frankfort), said he was a “mercenary employed by certain Cardinals…and decked out like Aesop’s jackdaw.” We infer that Mr. Sanders was "into" the dress-up scene of Papal/Non-Papal Romanism. Like the MCTTers of today.
Mr. Heylin of the 17th century spoke of Mr. Sander’s “pestilential and seditious book.”
Mr. Strype of the late 17th century said he was a “profligate fellow, a very slave to the Roman See, and a sworn enemy to his own country…he sought to throw reproach and dirt enough upon the reforming kings and princes, the reformers and the reformation…with slanderous accounts of the reformation…raising rebellions in Ireland against queen Elizabeth.”
Mr. Collier said he was a “bad historian” who gave “a performance.”
Mr. (bp) Gilbert Burnet, again of the 17th century, said of him: “Liars by a frequent custom grow to such a habit,” a man “given to vent reproaches and lies” and who “intended to represent the reformation in the foulest shape…to defame queen Elizabeth…and to magnify the authority of the See of Rome.”
A Papal/Non-Papal Romanist viewpoint of Mr. Sanders:
Au contraire says Mr. Lewis, 1877, to wit, that Mr. Nicholas Sanders was “honest, fearless, and spoke plainly, without respect of persons…grave, solid, and learned, without conceit or affectation, showing the simplicity and directness of his nature.”
One can tell. They're all gonna get along just fine.
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