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Our National Church
Author: Robert Cecil

CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. ORIGINS Earliest Days to A. D. 597 . . . 1 11. ESTABLISHME N A T D . 597 to A. D. 680 a . 11 IV. UBSETTLEJIEX A T . D. 735 to A. D. 1066 . . 34 V. CHURCH AND STATE A. D. 1066 t0 A. D. 1215 William I to John . . . . . 44 VI. DECLIXE A. D. 1215 to A. D. 1509 John to Henry VIII . . . . . GO VII. REFORM A . D. 1509 to A. D. 15... more »47 Henry VIII . 74 VIII. REFORJI-continued AD. 1547 to A. D. 1558 Edward V1 to Elizabeth . . . . 89 IX. CONTROVER A Y . D Y . 1558 to A. D. 1660 Elizabeth to Charles 11 . . 103 X. RESTORATIO A N . D . lGGO to A. D. 1714 Charles I1 to George I , . . . . l17 XI. TORPOR A . D. 1714 to A. D. 1800 George I to George 111 . . . 132 XII. RECOVER Y A . D. 1800 to A. D. 1010 George 111 to Georgc V . . . 148 v CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE XIII. CONSTITUT IEOCKC LESIASTI . C AL . . 163 XIV. CONSTITUT ICOINV IL. . . 176 XV. PROPERTY . . . 190 APPENDIIX-C ONTINUITY . . . 206 APPENDI1X1 - CHURCH A ND CROWN. . . 213 APPENDI1X1 1-GLOSSAR O Y F CHURCH O FFICERS 218 APPENDIIXV - SOXE LEADIRDGA TES . . 222 OUR NATIONAL CHURCH CHAPTER I ORIGINS EARLIEST DA. Y8 TO A. D. 597 TI E N ational Church, or, to speak more precisely, that portion of the Universal Church which is called the Church of England, has gradually increased from the time when the seed of Christianity was first sown in the land until it has filled the whole country, spreading its activities into every busy town and remote village, while under its shadows have sprung up the great institutions of which our countrymen are justly proud. When Britain was little more than tt theatre for the hostilities of half-savage tribes, the Church was the one influence that made for civilisation, and even for national existence. To her we owe our unity and our liberty, our ruling conceptions of government and progress. Well might Dean Stanley say that the view from the hill of St. Martins, Canterbury, is one of the most inspirit ing in the world, for there Christian learning a 2 OUR NATIONAL CHURCH and civilisation first struck root in the Anglo-Saxon race, and thence arose the whole constitution of Church and State in England which now binds together the whole British Empire. Here we see how n small beginning could lend to a great and lasting good, and realise that the view carries one vividly back into the past and hopefully forward into the future. l Christianity came to this country, as it did to other countries, through the missionary zeal of those who had witnessed the great facts of our religion-the Incarnation, the Resurrection, and the Ascension. As we are told in the Acts of the Apostles, they went everywhere preaching the Word, and wherever they preached they formed a branch of the Universal Church, according to the precept of its Founder. For Christianity was a message to the Jews, indeed, first, but also to the whole world. Starting from Jerusalem and J u d at, h e Church was to spread to the uttermost parts of the earth, and to war continually with the powers of darkness. In no country was Christian teaching more needed than in Britain...

ISBN-13: 9781408638354
ISBN-10: 1408638355
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 248
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