Introduction--Work of the Sixteenth Century--Unity and Diversity-- Necessity of considering the entire Religious History of England-- Establishment of Christianity in Great Britain--Formation of Ecclesiastical Catholicism in the Roman Empire--Spiritual Christianity received by Britain--Slavery and Conversion of Succat--His mission to Ireland--Anglo-Saxons re-establish Paganism in England--Columba at Iona--Evangelical Teaching--Presbytery and Episcopacy in Great Britain--Continental Missions of the Britons--An Omission, page 21 CHAPTER II. Pope Gregory the Great--Desires to reduce Britain--Policy of Gregory and Augustine--Arrival of the Mission--Appreciation--Britain superior to Rome--Dionoth at Bangor--First and Second Romish Aggressions--Anguish of the Britons--Pride of Rome--Rome has recourse to the Sword--Massacre--Saint Peter scourges an Archbishop--Oswald--His Victory--Corman--Mission of Oswald and Aidan--Death of Oswald, page 33 CHAPTER III. Character of Oswy--Death of Aidan--Wilfrid at Rome--At Oswald's Court--Finan and Colman--Independence of the Church attacked--Oswy's Conquests and Troubles--_Synodus Pharensis_--Cedda--Degeneration--The Disputation--Peter, the Gatekeeper--Triumph of Rome--Grief of the Britons--Popedom organized in England--Papal Exultation--Archbishop Theodore--Cedda re-ordained--Discord in the Church--Disgrace and Treachery of Wilfrid--His end--Scotland attacked--Adamnan--Iona resists--A King converted by Architects--The Monk Egbert at Iona--His History--Monkish Visions--Fall of Iona, page 43 CHAPTER IV. Clement--Struggle between a Scotchman and an Englishman--Word of God only--Clement's Success--His condemnation--Virgil and the Antipodes--John Scotus and Philosophical Religion--Alfred and the Bible--Darkness and Popery--William the Conqueror--Wulston at Edward's Tomb--Struggle between William and Hildebrand--The Pope yields--Cæsaropapia, page 58 CHAPTER V. Anselm's Firmness--Becket's Austerity--The king scourged--John becomes the Pope's Vassal--Collision between Popery and Liberty--The Vassal King ravages his kingdom--Religion of the Senses and Superstition, page 66 CHAPTER VI. Reaction--Grostete--Principles of Reform--Contest with the Pope-- Sewal--Progress of the Nation--Opposition to the Papacy--Conversion of Bradwardine--Grace is Supreme--Edward III--Statutes of _Provisors_ and _Præmunire_, page 72 CHAPTER VII.