A

SUMMARY

OF

THE HISTORY

OF

THE ENGLISH CHURCH,

AND OF

THE SECTS

WHICH HAVE DEPARTED FROM ITS COMMUNION;

WITH

ANSWERS TO EACH DISSENTING BODY

ON ITS PRETENDED GROUNDS OF SEPARATION.

BY JOHNSON GRANT, М. А.
OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

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

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."

LORD BACON.

PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD,

BOOKSELLER TO HER MAJESTY, NO, IGO, PICCADILLY,

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1873, March 22. ...Walker Bequest. (Nob. I.-IL.)

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

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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 Serts

WHICH THE MEASURES ADOPTED UNDER HIS DIRECTION

AND PATRONAGE, ARE THE MOST EFFECTUAL MEANS

OF SUPPRESSING OR COMBATING,

IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED,

IN TESTIMONY OF PROFOUND RESPECT,

BY