Excerpt from An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 4: From the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century HE order and method, that have been followed in the former part of this Work, cannot be continued, without the greateft inconve niences, in this Fourth Book, which relates to the modern hiftory of the church. From the com; mencement of the fixteenth century, the face of religion was remarkably changed; the divifions, that had formerly perplexed the church, increafed con fiderably; and the ...
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Excerpt from An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 4: From the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century HE order and method, that have been followed in the former part of this Work, cannot be continued, without the greateft inconve niences, in this Fourth Book, which relates to the modern hiftory of the church. From the com; mencement of the fixteenth century, the face of religion was remarkably changed; the divifions, that had formerly perplexed the church, increafed con fiderably; and the Chriftian focieties, that telin quilhed the eitablifhed forms of divine worfhip, and ere???led themfelves into feparate afl'emblies, upon principles different from thofe of the Roman hie rarchy, rapidly multiplied. This circumftance renders it impoflible to prefent in one connected feries, or, as it were, in one continued tablature, the events, vicilintudes, and revolutions, that hap pened in the church, divided its members, and en feebled the dominion of its tyrants. From the period on which we now enter, the bond of union among Chrifiians, that had been formed by a blind obedience to the Roman pontifl', was, in almofl: every country, either diitolved, or at leafl relaxed; and confequently this period of our hiftory mufl: be divided into a multitude of branches, into as many parts, as there were famous fe???is that arofe in this century. II. It is however proper to obferve here, that many of the events, which diliinguilh this cenyury, six had a manifeft relation to the church in general, and mi. mgr, not to any Chrillian fociety in particular. And as mg; in thefe events deferve to be mentioned feparately, on m gonad B a account M. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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