THE

HISTORY

OF THE

CHRISTIAN CHURCH,

FROM

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST TO THE XVIII. CENTURY:

INCLUDING THE

VERY INTERESTING ACCOUNT

OF THE

WALDENSES AND ALBIGENSES.

BY WILLIAM JONES.

TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.

THIRD AMERICAN FROM THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION.

Philadelphia:

PUBLISHED BY R. W. POMEROY.

SOLD BY HOGAN & THOMPSON, 139) MARKET STREET.

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A View of the Rise and Progress of Christianity from the Birth

of Christ to the End of the First Century.

SECT. 1. From the Birth to the Death of Christ,

35

2. From Christ's Resurrection to the Promulgation of the

Gospel among the Gentiles,

40

3. From the first Preaching of the Gospel among the Gen-

tiles to the Return of Paul and Barnabas from their

first Journey,

53

4. The Subject continued-Paul's second and third Journeys, 66

5. From Paul's Arrival at Jerusalem with the Contributions

from Asia to the Period of his Death,

6. From the Time of Paul's Decease, A. D. 66, to the End

of the first Century,

CHAPTER II.

History of the Christian Church from the End of the first Cen-

tury to the Establishment of Christianity under Con-

stantine the Great, A. D. 98-306.

SECT. 1. The State of the Christian Profession under the Reign

84

96

of the Emperor Trajan, A. D. 98—117,

115

2. The Christian Church under the reigns of Adrian and

the Antonines, A. D. 117-180,

123

3. From the Death of Marcus Aurelius to the days of Con-
stantine, A. D. 180-306

134

4. Reflections on the History of the Christian Church dur-

ing the first three Centuries, with a View of the Rise

of Antichrist,

152