... Over many centuries and many generations of English life has been influenced, indeed governed by Church and State inextricably linked as one. The Monarch was always to be governed by the words of truth, the oracles of wisdom contained in the Bible. Church and State, Monarch, Parliament, the Church were the three in one who made policy, declared wars and taxed the people to fund their deeds. ...
(notes made at the time of his sermon at the Enthronement of David as Bishop of Manchester)
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