OF

DISSENTERS,

FROM THE

REVOLUTION

1

IN 1688, TO THE YEAR 1808.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

BY

DAVID BOGUE & JAMES BENNETT.

VOL 1.

London:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHORS;
AND SOLD BY WILLIAMS AND SMITH, STATIONER'S-COURT; CONDER,

BUCKLERSBURY; BLACK, PARRY, AND KINGSBURY, LEADENHALL-
STREET; BAYNES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; MAXWELL, SKINNER-
STREET; AND OGLE, HOLBORN.

P. TILLING, PRINTER, NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CONTAINING A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF CHRIS-

TIANITY IN BRITAIN TO THE REVOLUTION.

SECTION 1.

From the Introduction of the Gospel to the Reformation.

PAGE.

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The condition of Britain before it received the light

of the Gospel

Various opinions concerning the first Christian apostle

to the Britons

Supposed conversion of Lucius, the British king, in the

second century

Triumphs of the Gospel in the third century

Martyrdom of St. Alban

Constantine the great invested with the purple in Britain

Pelagianism arose in the fifth century

It is condemned in the synod of St. Albans

Wickedness of our countrymen

England rebarbarised by the pagan Saxons

Religion retires into Wales

Austin, the missionary from Rome, preaches to the

Anglo-Saxons

St. Columba, the apostle of the Hebrides

Progress of papal superstition in the seventh century

Theodore, of Tarsus, converts the Anglo-Saxons

Scotch missionaries preach in England

Venerable Bede

Alcuinus

Ignorance, superstition, and impurity of the times

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ib.

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ib.