CONTENTS.

CENTURY I.

Review of the Christian Religion from the period

of our Lord's Ascension to the time of Trajan....

CENTURY II.

Trajan-Pliny-Ignatius..............

CENTURY II.-CONTINUED.

Adrian Church at Jerusalem-Barchochebas.....

CENTURY II.-CONTINUED.

Marcus Antoninus-Churches of Lyons and Vienne

CENTURY II.-CONCLUDED.

Commodus-Peregrinus-Close of the second century 44

CENTURY III.

State of the Church during the reign of Severus ..

CENTURY III.-CONTINUED.

State of the Church under Caracalla-Macrinus-

Heliogabalus-Alexander-Maximus-Gordian-

and Philip.....

CENTURY III.-CONTINUED.

State of the Church at the death of Philip-Perse-

cutions of Decius and Gallus-Cyprian, bishop of

Carthage....

49

58

67

CENTURY III.-CONTINUED.

History of the Church under Valerian-Martyrdom

of Cyprian......

CENTURY III.-CONCLUDed.

State and progress of Christianity, during the re-

mainder of the third century..

CENTURY IV.

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75

85

CENTURY IV.-CONTINUED.

Julian, generally called the Apostate...

CENTURY IV.-CONTINUed.

109

114

State of the Church under Julian, named the Apostate 121

CENTURY IV.-CONCLuded.

Jovian-Valentinian and Valens....

CENTURY V.

Honorius and Arcadius-Rome besieged and taken

by the Goths-History of the Church from the

death of Theodosius to the subversion of the

Western empire..

132

....

146

CENTURY VI.

Justinian-Gregory I. Pope of Rome....

CENTURY VII.

State of Christianity in the East-Rise and Progress

of Mahomet..

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161

170

CENTURY VII.-CONCLUDed.

Churches of England, Ireland, and Germany...... 178

CENTURY VIII.

Worship of Images-Gregory II. Pope of Rome-

Rise and Establishment of Papal power.....

CENTURY VIII.-CONTINUED.

The Paulicians-Paulinus of Aquileia-Claude of

Turin.

183

194

CENTURY IX.

Progress of Mahometanism-Danes in England—

State of the general church-Doctrine of Transub-

stantiation

208

CENTURY XIII.-CONTINUED.

History of the Albigenses in the Thirteenth Century 239

STORIES FROM CHURCH HISTORY.

CENTURY I.

REVIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FROM THE PERIOD OF OUR LORD'S ASCENSION TO THE TIME OF TRAJAN.

WHEN Our Lord had accomplished the work He came to do, even the offering up of Himself a sacrifice and satisfaction for the sin of the world, and had risen again from the grave and was about to ascend to the right hand of His eternal Father, having loved his own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end; and, "not willing that any should perish but that all should come to the knowledge of the truth,' "He instructed, his disciples to spread the knowledge of that truth through the world, by preaching his gospel, and calling upon men to "turn from dumb idols to serve the living God." This was the parting and benevolent command of our forgiving Lord, "Go and teach all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."

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