Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Dictionnaire des Papes which follows in his wake. Bayle tries to extenuate Platina; but Bruys shows that he is unsuccessful.--But. dee Papes, i. 408. Llorente is severe upon Sabinian; but it behoves the advocates of the Papacy to remember, that if he is just in his criticisms upon Sabinian, he may be equally just in his castigation of Gregory. Palma, in his Praelections, endeavors to show it is impossible that Sabinian hated Gregory, or that he himself wanted virtue. Be it so, learned professor of the Ninth Pius. Then Sabinian's caustic censure of Gregory was merited.--Paima's Praelections, i. 431, 32, 2d Roman edition. from the great doctor, who was Bishop of Hippo) with some thirty companions, to proceed to England in 596 or 7, and do what might be done for the promotion of an enterprise, which, no doubt, he had very nearly at heart. With his company, recruited to forty in France, he landed on the Isle of Thanet, at the mouth of the Thames. They were received distrustfully by Ethelbert, the Saxon king; but at the instance, questionless, of his excellent queen, were soon invited to Canterbury, his capital city, and allowed to mingle freely with their fellow-Christians, and countrymen already there, and with the people at large. One caution, one memorable caution only, did the Saxon king impose upon them, and, as an observer might say, with a sort of prophetical anticipation of the quality of the individuals with whom he had to deal. He had learned, he said, "from his instructors and leaders to salvation, that the service of Christ ought to be voluntary, not by compulsion." He, therefore, would allow no compulsion of any sort, in the business of Christianizing his realms.0 Oh, had Bome, had even Augustine implicitly followed...