Excerpt from A History of All Religions, as Divided Into Paganism, Mahometanism, Judaism and Christianity: With an Account of Literary and Theological Institutions and Missionary, Bible, Tract and Sunday School Societies, With a General List of Religious Publications The constant aim of the author has been to let each denomination speak for itself, either by furnishing their own histo rie's, or by referring to 'such accounts as they approved l have endeavoured as far as possible to catch their phrase ology, and adopt their peculiar forms of expression, which like the different dialects ofnations, though uncouth and hard to be understood by others, yet are uttered with the great est fluency, and are perfectly understood by those who are accustomed to use them. 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.