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Excerpt from History of the Church of Christ, Vol. 3: Containing the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth, Centuries; To Which Is Added, the History of the Waldeness to the Reformation If the real church historian find it a difficult task, to extract a connected view of his peculiar subject from the ecclesiastical materials of the fourth and fifth centuries, that difficulty is multiplied a hundred fold, while he labours through the long and gloomy period, which in the present volume engages his attention. Impressed, however, with the certain truth of the declaration made by the divine author of christianity, "that the gates of hell shall never prevail against his church," I have endeavoured all along to discover her actual existence. How far I have succeeded, the reader must determine for himself. If the fundamental doctrines of the gospel have not been exhibited, both as professed in various parts of the world, and as productive of those fruits of holiness, which are peculiarly christian, my aim has been missed, and the grand design of the whole narration has failed. But I hope the scriptural reader will see the lineaments of the church pervading these dark centuries; provided he divest himself of all partial regards for sects and denominations, ages and countries, and attend exclusively to the marks and evidences of genuine Christianity. This is the right frame of spirit, which the subject before us requires; and it is what I have steadily endeavoured to preserve. Tros Rutulusve fuat, nullo discrimine habebo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.