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Excerpt from Biography of the Early Church
Tan following pages supply the remainder of the list of prominent persons in ecclesiastical history down to the time of the rise of the Arian controversy, and thu's complete the plan proposed in the former vo lume. The Reader will perceive that not only the history is given in much fuller detail than in the pre ceding case, which is owing to the much more ample stock of materials; but that also the opinions main tained by the characters are explained with more minuteness. This is partly owing to the same reason, partly also because the arrival at times of controversy within the Church gives them a greater importance, and partly also because the Author, unhappily, can no longer refer his Reader to the faithful guidance of the works of the Bishop of Lincoln. He hopes that he has now presented a tolerably faithful picture of the Church of the three first centuries, and wishesrneracn.
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