OF

THE HISTORY

OF

THE ENGLISH CHURCH,

AND OF

THE SECTS

WHICH HAVE DEPARTED FROM ITS COMMUNION;

ON

WITH

ANSWERS TO EACH DISSENTING BODY

ITS PRETENDED GROUNDS OF SEPARATION.

CARRYING DOWN THE NARRATIVE FROM THE EARLIEST
PERIODS TO THE REIGN OF JAMES 1.

AND INCLUDING

A STATEMENT OF THE GROUNDS ON WHICH THE

Church of England

SEPARATED FROM THAT OF ROME.

"It is not St. Augustine's, or St. Ambrose's works, that will make so wise
a divine, as ecclesiastical history, thoroughly read and observed."-

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD,

LORD BACON.

BOOKSELLER TO HER MAJESTY, NO. 190, PICCADILLY.

EX 500
GY

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Prated by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, London.

RIGHT REVEREND

THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S,

PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN
KNOWLEDGE AND CHURCH UNION,

THIS HISTORY

OF

That Church,

OF WHICH HIS LORDSHIP IS SO DISTINGUISHED AN
ORNAMENT AND SUPPORT,

AND OF

Those Sects

WHICH THE MEASURES ADOPTED UNDER HIS DIRECTION AND PATRONAGE, ARE THE MOST EFFECTUAL MEANS OF SUPPRESSING OR COMBATING,