HISTORY OF THE TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT. BY EDWARD GEORGE KIRWAN BROWNE, LATE PROTESTANT CURATE OF BAWDSEY, SUFFOLK. "And so those Oxfordmen, with one accord, Sought in another Church to serve their Lord."- Permissii Superiorum. Ecclesia Die. DUBLIN: JAMES DUFFY, 6, WELLINGTON-QUAY. LONDON: CHARLES DOLMAN, 60, NEW BOND-STREET. GLASGOW; MARGEY, GREAT CLYDE-STREET. 1856. 110.b.50. [The Author reserves to himself the right of translating this work into foreign languages, and all other rights of international copyright]. PREFACE. THE progress of Christianity in England presents many curious features with the sole exception of white-cliffed Albion, no nation, no kingdom has ever had restored to her, her lost hierarchy which has ONCE, only once, rejected the truth; but England, though she has five times rejected the truth of God, and trod under foot the Covenant of JESUS CHRIST the Lamb of God, has again, after a lapse of three centuries, had the pearl of inestimable price offered her. England (it is supposed) first received the light of faith in A.D. 63, by the teaching of S. Joseph of Arimathea and his three companions who took up their residence at Glastonbury-the first land of God-the first home of the saints in England-" here S. Joseph resided for some time, but the rays of the Gospel were received coldly by the inhabitants of Britain," and after the death of the missioners, Glastonbury became the retreat of wild animals. Christianity was again re-introduced into England in 156, when Lucius, King of the Britons, sent a letter to that holy man, Eleutherius, who presided over the Church at Rome, beseeching, that under |
