Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . urchesand particularly of England) ever since she shook off theyoke of secular oppression and enjoyed that liberty wherewithJesus Christ endowed her, better administered than while B IO CHAPTER THE SECOND. St. Benedicts disciples sat in that Chair, nor more generallyvenerated than while monks were her apostles, nor more saf
Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . urchesand particularly of England) ever since she shook off theyoke of secular oppression and enjoyed that liberty wherewithJesus Christ endowed her, better administered than while B IO CHAPTER THE SECOND. St. Benedicts disciples sat in that Chair, nor more generallyvenerated than while monks were her apostles, nor more safelyguarded than when BenedidHnes were her champions. And this singular favour of God to the Order does appear yetmore evident in our nation, and to it also, if men are not dead toall sense of gratitude; for this religious Institute took rootamong the English as soon as Christianity itself, spread with theFaith and sank with it likewise; as if there were so close analliance between it and orthodox profession, that that savingbelief which was disseminated among us but by it, could notsubsist without it. As long as monachism held up in Englandthe Catholic Church had its fences and bulwarks, but that beingcast down, the Church became the prey of the impiety of II
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