Excerpt from A Summary of the History of the English Church, and of the Sects Which Have Departed From Its Communion, Vol. 3: With Answers to Each Dissenting Body Relative to Its Pretended Grounds of Separation; Carrying Down the Narrative to the Year 1800 But while I seem thus to boast of compli ments addressed to me, I must not conceal a complaint with which they have been mingled, that the dignity and utility of this History have sustained considerable injury, by my detailed notice of the Joannite sect, who might have been left to expire in the socket of their own fatuity. 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.