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The elements had been well shaken together during the civil wars and / interregnum under the Long Parliament and Protectorate; and nothing but the / cowardliness and impolicy of the Nonconformists, at the Restoration, could / have prevented a real reformation on a wider basis. But the truth is, by / going over to Breda with their stiff flatteries to the hollow-hearted King, / they put Sheldon and the bishops on the side of the constitution.
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men / began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.