Excerpt from History of the Church in England: From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Accession of Henry VIII The conversion Of a race so stubborn, so tenacious of national habits, so slow to unlearn, was a miracle of divine grace. How the good tidings reached Britain is a matter of conjecture, or rather perhaps Of legend, for Britain's knowledge Of the Christian religion is curiously revealed to us through its legends. The Celtic mind is eminently poetical, and instead of clothing facts in everyday garb, it sings ...
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Excerpt from History of the Church in England: From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Accession of Henry VIII The conversion Of a race so stubborn, so tenacious of national habits, so slow to unlearn, was a miracle of divine grace. How the good tidings reached Britain is a matter of conjecture, or rather perhaps Of legend, for Britain's knowledge Of the Christian religion is curiously revealed to us through its legends. The Celtic mind is eminently poetical, and instead of clothing facts in everyday garb, it sings them in an air with variations, after the fashion of the Celtic minstrel. Tertullian in the second, and St. Chrysostom in the fourth, century mention the sound which had gone forth to the far distant British Isles.1 The Christian faith came either from the East or from Rome. Tradition says that Joseph of Arimathea, who had laid the Divine Body Of our Lord in the sepulchre, came to Britain, and, with his companions, instructed its people in the Faith of the Crucified that Glastonbury in Somersetshire was the spot he chose as the centre of his labours. The desire to claim one who had seen our Lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Milton Under Wychwood,
OXFORDSHIRE,
UNITED KINGDOM
$19.78
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