Excerpt from National Apostasy Considered a Sermon Preached in St. Mary's, Oxford: Before His Majesty's Judges of Assize, on Sunday, July 14, 1833 Since the following pages were prepared for the press, the calamity, in anticipation of which they were written, has actually overtaken this portion of the Church of god. The Legislature of England and Ireland, (the members of which are not even bound to profess belief in tbe Atone ment, ) this body has virtually usurped the com mission of those whom our saviour entrusted with at least one'voz'ce in making ecclesiastical laws, on matters wholly or partly Spiritual. The same Legislature has also ratified, to its full ex tent, this principle; - that the Apostolical Church in this realm is henceforth only to stand, in the eye Of the State, as one sect among many, de pending, for any preeminence she may still ap pear to retain, merely upon the accident of her having a strong party in the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.