The Anglican Church, Or, The Introduction and Continuity of the Christian Faith in the British Isles

Front Cover
James Pott, 1892 - 110 pages

From inside the book

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 102 - Nay, so far was it from the purpose of the Church of England to forsake and reject the Churches of Italy, France, Spain, Germany, or any such like churches, in all things which they held and practised, that, as the apology of the Church of England confesseth, it doth with reverence retain those ceremonies which do neither endamage the Church of God, nor offend the minds of sober men : and only departed from them in those particular points, wherein they were fallen both from themselves in their ancient...
Page 64 - Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if any thing in the church's government, surely the first institution of bishops was from heaven, was even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it.
Page 103 - That our church, and the pastors thereof, did always acknowledge the same rule of faith, the same fundamental articles of the Christian religion, both before and since the reformation; but with this difference, that we then professed the rule of faith together with the additional corruptions of the church of Rome; but now (God be thanked) without them.
Page 89 - His twelve Apostles first He made His ministers of grace ; And they their hands on others laid, To fill in turn their place. So age by age, and year by year, His grace was handed on ; And still the Holy Church is here, Although her LORD is gone.
Page 21 - Llaudaff, which was the first in Britain, and who gave the privileges of land, and of kindred, and of social rights, and of society to such as were of the faith of Christ. The third was Cadwaladyr the Blessed, who gave refuge, with his lands, and with all his goods, to the believers who fled from the Saxons without faith, and from the aliens who would have slain them."—Tr. 35. The benefit which Bran thus conferred upon his country procured for his family the distinction of being accounted one of...
Page 78 - The primitive general use of Christians most effectually doth back the scripture, and interpret it in favour of this distinction ; scarce less than demonstrating it constituted by the. apostles ; for how otherwise is it imaginable, that all the churches founded by the apostles, in several most distant and disjoined places, (at Jerusalem, at Antioch, at Alexandria, at Ephesus, at Corinth, at Rome,) should presently conspire in acknowledgment and use of it? how could it without apparent confederacy...
Page 96 - Homage to thee I have not chosen, nor do I choose to do. I never made a promise to that effect, neither do I find that it was ever performed by my predecessors to thine.
Page 57 - FOR ever hallowed be this morning fair, Blest be the unconscious shore on which ye tread, And blest the silver Cross, which ye, instead Of martial banner, in procession bear...
Page 102 - His full purpose and intent is, to see the laws of Almighty God purely and sincerely preached and taught, and Christ's faith without blot kept and observed in his realm ; and not to separate himself or his realm...
Page 89 - CHRIST is gone up; yet ere he passed^ From earth, in heaven to reign, He formed one holy Church to last Till he should come again.

Bibliographic information