Reformation. Indignation and malcontent, like reform itself, was a gathering spirit, or storm. The ecclesiastical orders had amassed to themselves, in the name of God, enormous riches and a great proportion of the land, and on this they claimed to be exempt from taxation. . . . Religion was divorced from the life of holiness. In a word, the church was rotten, sunk in sloth and selfishness, forgetful of its high calling, false to the trust which it had received of God. There