Augustine and His Companions

AND HIS COMPANIONS.

Four Lectures

DELIVERED AT ST. PAUL'S IN JANUARY, 1895,

BY THE

RIGHT REV. G. F. BROWNE, B.D., D.C.L.,
CANON OF ST. PAUL'S; FORMERLY DISNEY PROFESSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE; BISHOP OF STEPNEY.

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1895.

Oxford

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

MAR 13 1915

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PREFACE.

I SEE that in an interesting review in the Leiden Theol. Tijdschrift (Maar., 1895) of my last year's course of lectures at St. Paul's, The Church in these Islands before the coming of Augustine, a very friendly Dutch critic thinks that my "Exkurs" on Pelagius and Coelestius "schijnt hier misplaatst." Considering that my one purpose was to speak of the Britons and the Celts, and that one of these was a Briton and the other a Celt, and that both of them play highly important parts in Church History, I cannot quite agree with my critic. I should not have referred to this, however, if it had not provided an opportunity for a more general remark. My wish has been, all through, to put as much material and as many collateral points and illustrations as possible into my lectures. It seems to me important that the early British and English periods should be made to look

large and full, and should be linked as completely as may be with the general swing and go of the then world. No doubt the attempt to carry out this purpose gives at times. a sense of crowdedness, and at times a sense of delay in coming to the point. These objections I have intentionally disregarded. I need scarcely add that to have allowed them to prevail would have saved me some hours of work and many risks of error.

G. F. STEPNEY.

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.