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... Kent - Arrival of the Saxons - The Anglian Colonies -- The Destruction of British Churches - Anglo - Saxon Heathenism - The Survival of British Christianity - Organisa- tion of the Church in Wales - St . Columba in Scotland - The ...
... Kent - Arrival of the Saxons - The Anglian Colonies -- The Destruction of British Churches - Anglo - Saxon Heathenism - The Survival of British Christianity - Organisa- tion of the Church in Wales - St . Columba in Scotland - The ...
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... Kent Tribes 16. Llandaff Cathedral 17. Bangor Cathedral 18. Ruins of Iona ( before recent repairs ) 19. Church at Perranzabuloe in 1835 20. The Bishop's Seat , Exeter 21. St. Mary's Church in Dover Castle 22. Mitre , Staff , and Cushion ...
... Kent Tribes 16. Llandaff Cathedral 17. Bangor Cathedral 18. Ruins of Iona ( before recent repairs ) 19. Church at Perranzabuloe in 1835 20. The Bishop's Seat , Exeter 21. St. Mary's Church in Dover Castle 22. Mitre , Staff , and Cushion ...
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... Kent nearly 200 years later ) , who , while heartily contending against his errors , cheerfully admits that in private life Pelagius was " honourable , earnest , chaste , and commendable ; a holy man who had made considerable progress ...
... Kent nearly 200 years later ) , who , while heartily contending against his errors , cheerfully admits that in private life Pelagius was " honourable , earnest , chaste , and commendable ; a holy man who had made considerable progress ...
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... Kent .-- We have next to consider the time when the Britons had to fall back before the overwhelming might of the Teutonic or German tribes , who began their work of conquest here the very same year that Ger- manus had left our shores ...
... Kent .-- We have next to consider the time when the Britons had to fall back before the overwhelming might of the Teutonic or German tribes , who began their work of conquest here the very same year that Ger- manus had left our shores ...
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... Kent . Here they established a colony , and elected their leader as king , following up their advantage by making continual raids upon the Britons , who stubbornly contested their fatherland inch by inch . The feud between the Celtic ...
... Kent . Here they established a colony , and elected their leader as king , following up their advantage by making continual raids upon the Britons , who stubbornly contested their fatherland inch by inch . The feud between the Celtic ...
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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 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 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...
Page 210 - THOU, who the verdant plain dost traverse here, While Thames among his willows from thy view Retires ; O stranger, stay thee, and the scene Around contemplate well. This is the place Where England's ancient barons, clad in arms And stern with conquest, from their tyrant king (Then render'd tame) did challenge and secure The charter of thy freedom.
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 236 - God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evildoers. The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.