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Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England With Sermons Delivered on Several Occasions
Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England With Sermons Delivered on Several Occasions Author:Thomas Winthrop Coit General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: Daniel Dana Subjects: Great Britain Sermons, American History / Europe / Great Britain Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / Episcopalian Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion... more » / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE IV. BEARINO OF THE NEW RELIGION FROM HOME TOWARDS THE OLD CHRISTIANITY WHICH IT ENCOUNTERED IN THE BRITISH ISLK8. The last, that is, my third lecture on the Early History of Christianity in England, enabled me to complete a brief review of six centuries, and to commence with an era, which Romanists have been disposed to consider as the foundation of the British Church under the auspices of Gregory the Great -- the last but one among the saints of the (so-called) successors of St. Peter. You saw something of the immediate and proximate and more praiseworthy causes which prompted Gregory to act in the premises; and of the manner in which his action was seconded and carried out. You saw how that to call the era in question, the chronological foundation of the Church of England, when there were bishops scattered over the western and north-western portions of Britain, in Cornwall, Wales, and Cumberland, and a bishop with his clergy on the very spot they first proposed to occupy, is so extravagant an assumption as to be altogether preposterous. You saw that the agent of Gregory was so far from acting as an auxiliary to the ancient Christians whom he found upon British territory, that he would have nothing at all to do with them, unless, while they had a long-established primate of their own, they would abandon h...« less