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6 so An Account of St. David.
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A Sketch Of The State Of Christianity In...
Having obtained and secured the countenance and patronage of the rulers , he set himself in good earnest about improving his advantages , by contriving and pursuing such measures as he thought best calculated to answer the great ends which he had in yiew , the establishment of his own faith and the suppression
of that of his opponents : and it must be confessed that he here discovered no small or mean abilities . He established bishoprics and colleges _^ under the patronage of the civil power , in _different parts of the country , and especially among the Silurians , whose princes had long taken the lead as patrons of Christianity and of foreign missionaries . In those bishoprics ,
and at the head of those colleges , as was before intimated , he p laced his most able and trusty disciples , who afterwards rivalled him in renown and pursued the plans he had formed with reputation and success . Vast numbers of students were carefully and orthodoxly trained up in those seminaries _, and became soon distinguished by their zeal , activity and popularity . If the harvest was _great , the workmen were neither few nor
slothful ; ami being patronized by the government , while their opponents were discountenanced , interdicted and proscribed , their cause rapidly gained ground and soon became firmly established * Thus was the foundation laid for that hierarchy , or national church in Wales _^ which , without any very considerable or material changes , has continued there ever since , and will
probably continue yet for a long time to come . The old religion , called Pelagianism , however , was not very speedily or easily eradicated . It continued to exist and _strugg le against its adversaries , long after the departure of St . Germain . The famous synod held at Llanddewi-brevi , avowedly _against it , in the time of St . David , is a standing proof that its
adherents were then neither few nor feeble . That synod , it seems , was held in 5 IP , ( though some have given it an earlier date , ) and was distinguished , acccording to Giraldas and others , by certain miraculous events in favour of the orthodox party ; such as the restoration of a dead man to life , and the swelling of the earth into a high hill under the feet of St . David , while
he was there preaching . These wonders are said to have powerfully operated ( and well they might ) to the _confusion of the heretics , and the confirmation , establishment and triumph of prthodox believers . Their saying so , however , is no proof that _these supernatural events did actually take place : it onl y proves how high St . David stood in the opinion of his contryrnen _^ long after he had departed this mortal life ; bo high , forsooth , that they would readily believe any marvellous tale in his
commendation that the monkish historians thought proper to inrent . No matter how extraordinary or improbable the talc _Height be , it was sure to meet with implicit credit , provided it
6 So An Account Of St. David.
6 so An Account of St . David .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/6/
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