THE

TRUE CHARACTER

OF

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

AS EXHIBITED IN HER

ANTIQUITY, ORDERS, AND LITURGY.

BY THE REV. GEORGE INGRAM,

CURATE OF CHEDBURGH, SUFFOLK.

"Id verius quod prius, id prius quod et ab initio, id ab initio,
quod ab Apostolis."-TERTULLIAN, ADVERSUS MARCIONEM.

LIB, IV. C. 5.

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PREFACE.

THE object of the writer, in the following pages, is to counteract some very prevailing errors. The information necessary for the correction of those errors being contained in expensive and voluminous works, and such as do not commonly fall in the way of general readers, he has extracted from them, and exhibited in a connected form such matter as appeared to him sufficient for the object in view.

The Historical information conveyed in this work the reader may rely upon, being gathered with great care from writers of