Illustrated Notes on English Church History, Volume 1Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1888 |
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Abbey abbot Alfred ancient Anglo-Saxon Anselm appointed archbishop of Canterbury archbishop of York Augustine barons battle became Becket Bede benefices bishop Britain British Church Britons built called canons Canterbury Cathedral Caratacus Cathedral Celtic century chief Christ Christian Church History claimed clergy Cloth boards Conqueror Conquest consecrated council court Crown Crusades Danes death died diocese Dunstan East Anglia ecclesiastical Edward Edward the Confessor English Church estates Ethelbert excommunicated Faith favour Fcap Gaul Gregory heathen Henry Holy honour influence John Kent king king's kingdom land Lanfranc Langton legate Lindisfarne lived London Mercia mission missionaries monasteries monastic monks nobles Norman Normandy Northumbria Oswy papacy papal Paulinus pope pope's preach prelates priest princes province refused reign religious Roman Rome Rufus Saxon secular sent soon spiritual Stephen Langton supremacy synod Theodore tribes Welsh Wessex Wilfrid William William Rufus William the Conqueror Winchester Witan worship Wycliffe York
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Page 119 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 273 - THE HOUSE OF GOD THE HOME OF MAN. By the Rev. Canon JELF. THE INNER LIFE, as Revealed in the Correspondence of Celebrated Christians. Edited by the late Rev. T. ERSKINE. THE LIFE OF THE SOUL IN THE WORLD ; its Nature, Needs, Dangers, Sorrows, Aids, and Joys.
Page 55 - Augustine, is said, in a threatening manner, to have foretold, that in case they would not join in unity with their brethren, they should be warred upon by their enemies ; and, if they would not preach the way of life to the English nation, they should at their hands undergo the vengeance of death.
Page 46 - Then repairing to the bishop of the Roman apostolical see, (for he was not himself then made pope,) he entreated him to send some ministers of the word into Britain to the nation of the English, by whom it might be converted to Christ...