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Excerpt from Sermons on Special Occasions: Preached in Westminster Abbey When Christianity dethroned the previous religions of the world, it immediately did that which proved its sov ereign right to the position which it claimed. It took the names, the institutions, the ideas which it found, and gave them a new and better meaning; or even if it destroyed them, it immediately planted a correspond ing idea or institution in their place. It took away that which was old and ready to vanish, in order that it might establish that which will endure for ever and ever. 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.