THE ORIGINS OF PROTESTANTISM 



the persecution which has made ecclesiastical 

 history so abominable, we may find it, ready to 

 hand, in the tale of wickedness with which I 

 began the present discussion. One of the argu- 

 ments for the banishment of the Moriscoes,upon 

 which the Archbishop of Valencia mainly relied, 

 was the argument that the whole Spanish people 

 were in the sight of Heaven responsible for the 

 doubtful orthodoxy of these converts from Is- 

 lam. "He declared that the Armada, which 

 Philip II. sent against England in 1588, had 

 been destroyed because God would not allow 

 even that pious enterprise to succeed while those 

 who undertook it left heretics undisturbed at 

 home. For the same reason, the late expedition 

 to Algiers had failed ; it being evidently the 

 will of Heaven that nothing should prosper 

 while Spain was inhabited by apostates." ] This 

 argument, which produced a powerful effect 

 upon both king and people, was conceived pre- 

 cisely in the spirit of the primeval savage. And 

 so when Mary Tudor, being afflicted with 

 dropsy, supposed that she was about to give 

 birth to a prince who should exclude from the 

 succession the heretical Elizabeth, when the Te 

 Deum was sung in St. Paul's, and vessels on the 

 Thames fired salutes, and merry bells were set 

 ringing in all the churches, and still the expected 

 prince did not make his appearance ; when, after 

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