Excerpt from An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, From the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 1 of 6: In Which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power Are Considered in Their Connection With the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During That Period His literary labors were principally connected with his theological profeflion. He wrote, in the language of ancient Rome, an account of the affairs and fiate of the Chrifiians before the reign of Con ftantine the Great;-a vindication of the. 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.