Excerpt from The Constitution Law of the Church in the First Two Centuries This volume may be said to consist of five essays, all treating of subjects closely connected in primitive Christianity. The first essay, The Origin and Develop ment of the Constitution and Law of the Church in the First two Centuries, constitutes the book proper; the second, third, and fourth essays, on Primitive Christianity and Catholicism, The Fundamental Confession of the Church, and Gospel, form the appendices; while the fifth essay, on Word of God, appears as a supplementary note. 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.