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    630 An Account of Austin the monk.

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    A Sketch Of The State Of Christianity In...

    cd the Saxon or English princes to carry fire and sword int 6 their country , by way of revenge . As the rejection of Austin ' s proposals was chiefly imputed to Dinoth , the president of the college or monastery of Bangor _^ the vengeance of the invadin g army fell heavy upon the hapless residents of that ill-fated seminary . Most of them were slaughtered _, and the rest dispersed Though the Welsh bishops did not immediately after this bloody event submit to the dictates of Austin and his masto sword int 6

    ter _^ pope Gregory , yet as the difference appeared consist chiefly in matters of comparatively small moment , they did so not verv lono * after : from which neriod the established _religion ; frona which period the established reliion

    of Wales became the res . t of what new corruptions readily received by nation . Of this Austin , into Wales , the popery of the 7 th is drawn from authentic sources . g entirel y the same with that of England and is called Christendom _, Of course , all the which succeeding popes invented , were as the Welsh , as they were by any other popish who introducedinto England , and eventually century , the following sketch He was a monk of the

    convent of St . Andrew at Rome _^ and sent with forty others of the same order , by pope Gregory the first ( whom the Welsh Chronicles call Giryoel ) upon a mission to England * In 597 , he and his associates landed in the isle of Thanet , accompanied by interpreters , whom they had procured in France . Upon their landing , they dispatched some of those interpreters to Ethelbert , then king of the desigti of and gave them a of tneir mission candid Atfirst ministry , sometimeafter , becoming numbersofhis great the missionaries soon converted Kent , informing him of their arrival , and The king hearing , success their a convert , subjectssoon kindly , received them with leave commence their to not great ; but the king , and submitting to baptism , followed his example , and whole kingdom . Austin was the

    is said to have baptized no less than ten thousand persons in a river , one Christmas-day . His method of doing it was rather singular : he consecrated the river , then commanded _^ by criers , that the people should go in , with faith , two and two _, and in the name of the trinity baptize each other *

    The rapid success which attended this mission excited in Austin the ambitious desire of possessing , under the sanction of the pope , the supreme authority in the English churches , as archbishop of Canterbury . He sent messengers to the pope ,

    probably to solicit this honour , and for instruction in various particulars . The following were amongthe queries he proposed , and the answers he received , and may serve as a specimen of the judgment of Austin , the wisdom of Gregory , and the rediculoas casuistry of that _period , Query . —Are cousin-g _6 _**

    630 An Account Of Austin The Monk.

    630 An Account of Austin the monk .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 630, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/10/