The Roman see in the early Church, and other studies in church history

Front matter

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B V THE SAME A UTHOR.

VVAYMARKS IN CHURCH HISTORY.

Preface

The first and longest of the following essays is a recension and expansion of two articles on the Rev. Luke Rivington's volume, '* The Primitive Church and the See of Peter," which were contributed to the "Church Quarterly Review" for October, 1894, and January, 1895.-^ The third is a combination, with some abridgment, of certain articles on Alexandrian patriarchs of the fifth century, which may be found in the '' Dictionary of Christian, Biography." Thanks are due to the Editor of the *' Church Quarterly Review," and to Mr. Murray, for courteous

^ As in the postscript to the second article, due notice has here been taken of a pamphlet published by Mr. Rivington under the title, " A Reply to the Church Quarterly Review."

Bax

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permission to reprint what has already appeared In the ''Review" and in the " Dictionary."

The second paper may serve as a companion sketch to " The Episcopate of St. Basil " in the writer's " Waymarks in Church History." The fourth, fifth, and sixth were originally written for a " Summer Meeting of Clergy " at Oxford.

Christ Church,

February 29, 1896.