Excerpt from The Alleged Antiquity of Anglicanism: A Reply to Lord Selborne IS the modern Church of England, usually so called, the genuine representative in these lands of the ancient Church which bore that name, and received the undisputed allegiance of the English people up to the days of the Reformation To the High Church party, in view of their theological position, this question has always been one of vital importance. But its bearing on the agitation for Disendowment has added to the purely theological interest a political interest of an acute character. Catholics have, however, shown but slight dis position to make common cause with the Liberationists. They probably feel that the Church endowments are more usefully, or at all events less dangerously, employed, whilst in the hands of their present possessors, than if devoted, as they probably would be devoted, should Disendowment take place, to the freer prosecution of the anti-christian propagandism which goes by the misleading name of Undenominational Education. In so far, then, as the defence of the Endowments rests on grounds independent of the claim to theological continuity, no opposition will be offered in these pages, and even when it does try to build on this claim, while the claim is disputed, there is no desire to push a theological contention to any political conclusions. Only the theological aspect will be considered. Is it the Church over which Archbishop Benson presides, or that over which Cardinal Manning presides, which is in true continuity with the ancient Church and inherits its claims to the allegiance of the English people? 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.