XVI. The Heire.
I Ever beheld Somerset-shire in one Re∣spect as the most ancient and hono∣rable Shire in England. For Glassen-bury in that County was the Bryttish Antioch, where the Bryttons were first called
Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...
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- Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...
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- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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- London :: Printed by R.D. for Iohn Williams ...,
- 1660.
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- Meditations.
- Devotional exercises.
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Christians, by the Preaching of Ioseph of Arimathea, though the truth of the story be much swoln by the leaven of Legendarie fictions.
But hereafter Somerset-shire in another respect must be allowed the eldest Coun∣ty in England; As Christianity first grew there, so Charity first sprang thence, in that their Sober, Serious, and Seasona∣ble Declaration, wherein they renounce all future animosities in relation to their former sufferings.
Now as the zeal of Achaia pro∣voked very many, So the example of Somerset-shire hath been precedential to other Counties to follow it. Kent and Essex since have done, and other Shires are daily doing the same; Yea, and I hope that those Counties which lagg the last in writing, will be as for∣ward, as the first in performing their so∣lemn promises therein.
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2 Cor. 9.2.