An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England .. . An Hiftorical Difcourfe Of the uniform Governmentof CHAP. I. of the Britoftf, and their Government, His is Bri/^i;/, or rather that part thereof in afterages called Saxony and England^ from the peo-ples name* tranfplanted thither. The Britons(to lay afide all conceipts of Fame) I take toIjean iffue of the neighbouring Nations frotn?it the German and Belgick (hores j inducedhereto partly by the vicinity of the names of the Peoples,Cities, both in Religion and civil Government. Barbarians they wer
An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England .. . An Hiftorical Difcourfe Of the uniform Governmentof CHAP. I. of the Britoftf, and their Government, His is Bri/^i;/, or rather that part thereof in afterages called Saxony and England^ from the peo-ples name* tranfplanted thither. The Britons(to lay afide all conceipts of Fame) I take toIjean iffue of the neighbouring Nations frotn?it the German and Belgick (hores j inducedhereto partly by the vicinity of the names of the Peoples,Cities, both in Religion and civil Government. Barbarians they were,and fo elkemcd by the Romans that were but refined Barbarians Tacit. Anal,thcmfelves i and yet they worshipped an Invifible,InHnite,Om- God by Sacrifices: but thegreateft part of their reve- ^^fcom l* fell fhort, and refted upon their Priells, whom they ac- Tacit,counted the onely Secretaries that God had on earth, fearedtheir interdid worfc than death it felf, and fin thefc times ofuttermoft darknefs^ held them forth to neighbouring Natio
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