AN

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,

ANTIENT AND MODERN,

FROM

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

TO THE

BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

VOL. I.

AN

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,

ANTIENT AND MODERN,

FROM

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

TO THE

BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:

IN SIX VOLUMES.

IN WHICH

THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND VARIATIONS OF CHURCH POWER

ARE CONSIDERED

IN THEIR CONNEXION WITH THE STATE OF LEARNING AND PHILOSOPHY,

AND

THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF EUROPE DURING THAT PERIOD.

BY THE LATE LEARNED

JOHN LAWRENCE MOSHEIM, D. D.

AND CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN.

TRANSLATED from the OriginAL LATIN, and accompanied with NOTES

and CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES,

BY ARCHIBALD MACLAINE, D.D.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

AN ACCURATE INDE X.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY VERNOR & HOOD, POULTRY.

MDCCCIII.