This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. [From A. D. 150, to A. D. 190.] A. D. 150. I. Heresies had now multiplied to such a number, and spread to such an extent, as to become troublesomea to the regular and approved churches; and several sects had established separate communities, in distinction from the common body. Most of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. [From A. D. 150, to A. D. 190.] A. D. 150. I. Heresies had now multiplied to such a number, and spread to such an extent, as to become troublesomea to the regular and approved churches; and several sects had established separate communities, in distinction from the common body. Most of these were of the Gnostic kind, already described; but there was one which, though small, deserves particular mention, as consisting of that part of the original church at Jerusalem, which continued to adhere, with unyielding tenacity, to the practice of the Mosaic rituals. This was the Nazarene, or Ebionite, sect, which is said to have held the simple humanity of Jesus Christ. But from the heretics, of all kinds, we return to a view of the doctrine and character of the orthodox. Many of the vulgar superstitions of the Gentiles began to prevail among them, concerning magic, the demons, and the poetical regions .of the infernal world; and the Greek philosophy, which had begun to mingle with the doctrine of Christ, was rapidly modifying his religion to its own perverse genius. The credulity of this age was rank, and the learning of the day, at least that of a This is evident from the circumstance that Agrippa Castor wrote a book against the heretics some years before this period, and Justin Martyr a little after. the fathers, was too superficial to prove either a preventive or remedy. Apostolical tradition also began to be urged as proof, when it was so far lost or corrupted, that even they who had been disciples of the apostles, adduced contrary traditions on one and the same: pointb; and yet upon this very precarious authority some whimsical notions0 prevailed. To these shades in the picture we must add a still darker: the christians, ...
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