Excerpt from The History of Religious Liberty From the First Propagation of Christianity in Britain, to the Death of George III, Vol. 1 of 2: Including Its Successive State, Beneficial Influence, and Powerful Interruptions Had the Christians of former ages firmly adhered to the authority of the Gospel, as sacred and inviola ble, discarding the fatal principle of expediency; had they consulted the will of Christ as contained in his holy word, instead of idolizing the taste, the caprice, the fashion of the day, the man of sin would never have trampled upon the prostrate liberties of Christ endom; nor would the darkness of the middle ages have wrapt in its deadly shades, from generation to generation, the churches of the living God. 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.