Excerpt from Mosheim's Church History, of the First Two Centuries, (Maclaine's Translation): In Which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power, Are Considered in Their Connexion With the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During That Period
Should you meet some things in his History which you have hitherto considered as novel peculiarities of some pro fossors of the Christian faith, in your midst, pie'ase to bear in mind that the force of truth' and the spirit of impartiality, and not his party position, impelled Min to state things as they existed among the first Christians. I 'give you his His tory of the first and second centuries without note and com ment, and Without any additions whatever of my own; nor.
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