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- Title Page
- PREFATORY NOTE.
- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE AT THE TIME OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. Upwards of a quarter of a century before the Birth of Christ
- CHAPTER II. THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
- SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO CHAPTER II. THE YEAR OF CHRIST'S BIRTH.
- CHAPTER III. THE TWELVE AND THE SEVENTY.
- CHAPTER IV. THE PROGRESS OF THE GOSPEL FROM THE DEATH OF CHRIST TO THE DEATH OF THE APOSTLE JAMES, THE BROTHER OF JOHN.
- CHAPTER V. THE ORDINATION OF PAUL AND BARNABAS; THEIR MISSIONARY TOUR IN ASIA MINOR; AND THE COUNCIL OF JERUSALEM.
- CHAPTER VI. THE INTRODUCTION OF THE GOSPEL INTO EUROPE, AND THE MINISTRY OF PAUL AT PHILIPPI.
- CHAPTER VII. THE MINISTRY OF PAUL IN THESSALONICA, BEREA, ATHENS, AND CORINTH.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE CONVERSION OF APOLLOS, HIS CHARACTER, AND THE MINISTRY OF PAUL IN EPHESUS.
- CHAPTER IX. PAUL'S EPISTLES; HIS COLLECTION FOR THE POOR SAINTS AT JERUSALEM; HIS IMPRISONMENT THERE, AND AT CAESAREA AND ROME.
- CHAPTER X. PAUL'S SECOND IMPRISONMENT, AND MARTYRDOM; PETER, HIS EPISTLES, HIS MARTYRDOM, AND THE ROMAN CHURCH.
- CHAPTER XI. THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, AND ITS CONDITION AT THE TERMINATION OF THE FIRST CENTURY.
- CHAPTER I THE NEW TESTAMENT
- CHAPTER II. THE DOCTRINE OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH
- CHAPTER III. THE HERESIES OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE.
- CHAPTER I. THE LORD'S DAY--THE WORSHIP OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH--ITS SYMBOLIC ORDINANCES AND ITS DISCIPLINE. To the primitive disciples the day on which our Lord rose from the grave was a crisis of intense excitement. The crucifixion had cast a dismal clou
- CHAPTER II. THE EXTRAORDINARY TEACHERS OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH; AND ITS ORDINARY OFFICE-BEARERS, THEIR APPOINTMENT, AND ORDINATION.
- CHAPTER III. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH.
- CHAPTER IV. THE ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
- CHAPTER I. THE GROWTH OF THE CHURCH. The dawn of the second century was full of promise to the Church. On the death of Domitian in A.D. 96
- CHAPTER II. THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE CHURCH.
- CHAPTER III. FALSE BRETHREN AND FALSE PRINCIPLES IN THE CHURCH: SPIRIT AND CHARACTER OF THE CHRISTIANS.
- CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCH OF ROME IN THE SECOND CENTURY.
- CHAPTER V. THE CHURCH OF ROME IN THE THIRD CENTURY.
- CHAPTER I. THE ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS. By |the Fathers| we understand the writers of the ancient Christian Church. The name is
- CHAPTER II. THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES AND THEIR CLAIMS. THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE.
- CHAPTER III. THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES AND THEIR CLAIMS. THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE GNOSTICS, THE MONTANISTS, AND THE MANICHAEANS.
- CHAPTER V. THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH.
- CHAPTER I. THE WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH. The religion of the primitive Christians must have appeared exceedingly strange to their pagan contemporaries. The heathen worship was little better than a solemn show. Its victims adorned with garlands
- CHAPTER II. BAPTISM.
- CHAPTER III. THE LORD'S SUPPER.
- CHAPTER IV. CONFESSION AND PENANCE.
- CHAPTER V. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH IN THE SECOND CENTURY.
- CHAPTER VI. THE RISE OF THE HIERARCHY CONNECTED WITH THE SPREAD OF HERESIES.
- CHAPTER VII. PRELACY BEGINS IN ROME.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE CATHOLIC SYSTEM.
- CHAPTER IX. PRIMITIVE EPISCOPACY AND PRESBYTERIAN ORDINATION.
- CHAPTER X. THE PROGRESS OF PRELACY.
- CHAPTER XI. SYNODS--THEIR HISTORY AND CONSTITUTION.
- CHAPTER XII. THE CEREMONIES AND DISCIPLINE OP THE CHURCH AS ILLUSTRATED BY CURRENT CONTROVERSIES AND DIVISIONS.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE THEORY OF THE CHURCH, AND THE HISTORY OF ITS PERVERSION.
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