Excerpt from Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England With Sermons Delivered on Several Occasions If, however, any one thinks it strange that a fuss Should be made about the word Catholic, at the present day, let him know, that our ah cestors, in the great battle fought with Romanism in the latter part of the seventeenth century, deemed it worth while to be particular, and to complain, not that the word itself was a bad one, but misappropriated, because self-appropriated, by the Church of Rome. Bishop Lloyd ex plained the matter, and contended for the exclusive, oriental pedigree of the word, in a sermon preached before the King of England, in 1678. See Gibson's Preservatz'me, octavo edition, vol. Xii. P. 3, etc. Bp. Lloyd brings up one very important fact, that the ancient Unitarians, like the modern Romanists, called themselves exclusively the Catholics. 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.