Ctttp* XI O FY M A » C K E $ T "E;R. 599 tb*iafiirre£tiob *f Bda&cta in 6 * * An4 it was favourably re* c*i*ed. - it taft embraced by m*»y. It was ^er&cuted by none * Tht -Btitdtw the ftdmaro Hftoned to tfc voice of revelation, and ^ere iftcei^Jxicated into thfc *hurch of Cpd* And about the mid- dle 6f the ft^and century »i^rouft have reached the confines of LancaAriii w • The geaiuaof Siftuptiaa idolatry and the daemon of Stftufcttito frhpuinty jkd before it 1 and the fons and daugh- ters of Mancunium commenced the difciples of Chrift. Thus was the only religion that could adminifter real comfort to the wildly wandering foul of mai) m firft brought into the pariih of Manchefter. There has it ever continued fince, exalting the in- fetteft w4 refining tb^ ,paflioos & the parent of many a genuine £unft And tfyer^ .may it ever continue, the enlivening ny 9f ; ouf; fpajfoq, the purifying r prmciple of our conduft, til? creation ihal} fink in the fin^ £am$ and probation he fucceeded . * 1 1 t <
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"* v> . • ** it ■ ,'M Tflft ius. Digest ^xxyiji. p- ^i-C^pabridge.—'GiWas c r 2, i/jMjtfJ. -. J#>* ity.^ia, 41a, jj<wlafe*s Cornwall b. Hi. c. 2, and[ GafcTfc A/itattfflw* i>» hS» 17,004,39. — • GiWasc. 2, Borlafe e. 6, Wii, <J»fa*pw 121 and. Tacitus Agric. V. c. 11, and Ware (Harris)^ 14** And the numerous circles of (tones that remain in the ifland* the well-known temples of .the Britons, wtj-e : af- fmc^y:£tfi£3<*a henovt of «ke;fun, f We nave a Roman-BritiiK kiforiytion ApptiMifli Qrapi^(Horiflpy P» 206)* Gfannus being. tfa& kidth tiwrdGmn qt the fun(Criti r Diill p. 314). And a large fceafh in Scodbnd betwixt Badenock and Strath-fpey and on the banks of the Spey, having nany of thofe ci'teles upon it, is. called Sttt-grhsnna* or the heath of the /un . to- this day (CrirJ Diff^p^ ^r 4)t**- 4 StcaW>p> 30^ A? Marcellinus tib. xv. c. 9, Mdfo lib*, iii. c, i, Ca&far #♦ no* and Agric. V. c. iu-— 5 Caefar p^;i3o^*Mbidlw-^.C *♦ f. v, — 8 Horfely r Apollo Grannus. p« 206, Belatucadro Weftnn N*. 3 and Cumberland 3 1 * ti Gumfe. x 7, Seflootoite €«mb, 69* and Matuno, Mogouti^ uftod ethers-*-' Caefar* p. 120, Mela lib. iiL c. 21, " ' ' " ' . FC*y
