Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.

by Anonymous

AN AGRICULTURAL DEFENCE OF BIGOTRY.

In Ryder's History of England, a singular reason is stated to have been alleged by the Interlocutor, in support of a motion he had made in Convocation against permitting the printing of Cranmer's translation of the Bible. "If," said the mover, "we give them the Scriptures in their vernacular tongue, what ploughman who has read that 'no man having set his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven,' will thenceforth make a straight furrow?"