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History of the Christian Church From the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine (v. 2)
History of the Christian Church From the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine - v. 2 Author:Edward Burton Subtitle: With a Memoir of the Author, Occasional Notes, and Questions Adapting It to the Use of Schools and Colleges Volume: v. 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: Wiley Subjects: Church history Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Chr... more »istian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there 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: HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. INTRODUCTION. The reader of history may be compared to a traveller, who leaves his own country, to visit others which are far off, and very different from that in which he has been living. The manners and customs of the nations which he is going to see, are either wholly new to him, or he is already in some measure acquainted with them, by the information and researches of others. So it is with the reader of history. He is either beginning a study, to which he was altogether a stranger, and meets, for the first time, with facts and circumstances of which he had never heard before, or he is partly retracing his own steps, aud filling up the details of a plan which had been exhibited to him previously in outline. It is, perhaps, difficult to say in which of the two cases his gratification and amusement will be greatest; and the minds of different readers will be differently affected, according to the degree of knowledge already possessed upon the subject which they are reading. It must not, however, be forgotten, that gratification and amusement are not the only results which the history of past events produces on the mind. Many persons, it is true, are fond of history, and study it with avidity, without its enabling them to confer any direct practical benefit on mankind. Others, a...« less