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 ITS CATHOLICITY AND CONTINUITY.

LECTURE 1

object which I have in view in undertaking this Course of Lectures is twofold. First, it is to give some general facts about the history of the Church of England for those who have not had leisure to make this subject a special study; and secondly, it is to try to correct a few of the false impressions which are common respecting the origin and history of our Church.

The majority of men are either too indifferent to the