Excerpt from The Royal Supremacy, Vol. 1: Not an Arbitrary Authority but Limited by the Laws of the Church, of Which Kings Are Members The course which the cause now before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has taken, has probably awakened some of us as out of a dream. At first, our only anxiety was, lest any court, having, as a court, supreme authority in this realm, should decide contrary to the teaching of the Church, and to the truth of God. If it should decide right, or not decide wrong, we felt that it would be a great mercy of God; if otherwise, we thought that it would (as it would in a measure) be like the acts of Valens, or any other power wrongly exercised. But, as the pleadings went on day after day, a new feeling came over us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.