his time, and without the aid of any Pope. But I am led to think this, not from any hatred of Popery, but from a perfect conviction that St. Paul preached the Gospel in Britain, and that the Church of Britain was fully established before the Church of Rome. SECOND LETTER FROM THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S TO THE CLERGY OF HIS DIOCESE; ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH CHURCH ON ANY FOREIGN JURISDICTION; WITH A POSTSCRIPT LANUS ON THE TESTIMONY OF CLEMENS ROMANUS "AMONG the modern controversies there is scarce any of greater consequence, than that about universal supremacy, which the Bishop of Rome claimeth over the Christian Church." BARROW'S WORKS, Vol. i. p. 557. "The ancient British Church, by whomsoever planted, was a stranger to the Bishop of Rome and all his pretended authority," BLACKSTONE'S Com. Vol. iv. p. 105. Ed. 1795, 1 |
