Excerpt from Tracts on the Origin and Independence of the Ancient British Church: On the Supremacy of the Pope, and the Inconsistency of All Foreign Jurisdiction With the British Constitution; And on the Differences Between the Churches of England and of Rome And their friends have gained many proselyte's to the cause of Popery. To counteract these delusions, by shewing, that the Church (not Of Rome, but) of Jerusalem, was the mother church of Christendom that the British Church, found ed by St. Paul, was in its origin, and for many centuries, wholly independent of the Church of Rome, that the Pope's supremacy originated, not with St. Peter, but with an unprincipled usurper, - the murderer of his master and sovereign. 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.