Excerpt from The Ecclesiastical Class Book, or History of the Church From the Birth of Christ to the Present Time: Adapted to the Use of Academies and Schools The first edition of the, following work, published a few years since, was designed to be such a Class Book and, although adopted in several academies and schools, and, in general, well received, it was soon suggested that the work admitted of im portant irnprovements, especially in respect to a clearer state ment of the chims of the several religious communities noticed in the volume, and the omission of such observations as might justly be attributed to a censorious or sectarian spirit. These points the author has endeavoured to keep in view, in the re vision of the work. He has desired to treat every religious denomination with candour. Controverted points have been designedly excluded, and private opinion suppressed. The nu thor has confined himself to facts, and such facts as seemed to be of the greatest importance. 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.