Excerpt from The Ancient British Church: Being an Inquiry Into the History of Christianity in Britain, Previous to the Establishment of the Heptarchy Jesus, Thou art our salvation, Thou our strength and consolation Without Thee man's race is found Like parched grass on arid ground. There is no candid and rightly informed person who will refuse to admit that our country stands mainly indebted for her present position. 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.