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An Ecclesiastical History to the Twentieth Year of the Reign of Constantine, Tr. by C.f. Cruse. to Which Is Prefixed, the Life of Eusebius, by
An Ecclesiastical History to the Twentieth Year of the Reign of Constantine Tr by Cf Cruse to Which Is Prefixed the Life of Eusebius by Author:Eusebius Title: An Ecclesiastical History to the Twentieth Year of the Reign of Constantine, Tr. by C.f. Cruse. to Which Is Prefixed, the Life of Eusebius, by Valesius; Tr. by S.e. Parker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ... more »may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, EUSEBIUS. CHAPTER I. THE ARGUMENT OP THE WORK. As it is my purpose to record the successions of the holy apostles, together with the times since our Saviour, down to the present, to recount how many and important transactions are said to have occurred in Ecclesiastical History, what individuals in the most noted places eminently governed and presided over the church, what men also in their respective generations, whether with or without their writings, proclaimed the divine Word; to describe the character, times and number of those who, stimulated by the desire of innovation, and advancing to the greatest errors, announced themselves leaders in the propagation of false opinions, like grievous wolves, unmercifully assaulting the flock of Christ; as it is my intention, also, to describe the calamities that swiftly overwhelmed the whole Jewish nation, in consequence of their plots against our Saviour; how often, by what means, and in what times, the word of God has encountered the hostility of the nations; what eminent persons persevered in contending for it through those periods of blood and torture, beside the martyrdoms which have been endured in our own times: and, after all, to show the gracious and benign interposition of our Saviour; these being proposed as the subjects of the present work, I shall go back to the very origin and the earliest introduction of the dispensation of our Lord and S...« less