Excerpt from The Charges of Samuel Horsley, LL. D. F. R. S. F. A.S., Late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph: Delivered at His Several Visitations of the Dioceses of St. David's, Rochester, and St. Asaph A just abhorrence of those virulent ani mosities which in all ages since external persecution ceased have prevailed among Christians, especially, since the Reforma tion, among Protestants of the different denominations, upon the pretence at least of certain differences of Opinion in points of nice and doubtful disputation, hath in troducedand given general currency to a maxim, -which seemed to promise peace and unity by dismissing the cause or ra-a ther the pretence of dissension, - namely, that the laity, the more illiterate especial-a ly, have little concern with the mysteries. 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.