General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Vol. 5

IN presenting to the public this third volume of my Church His tory, I beg leave to remark that it would have given me great plea sure if I had found it possible to conclude in this volume my account of the image-controversy but in considering the immense mass of the materials, I have thought best to reserve the second part of this controversy for the next succeeding period, where it chronologically belongs. The thread of events which in this period served to pre pare the way for the schism betwixt the Greek and the Latin church, I shall take up again in the genetic exposition of this controversy in the following period.

Through the obliging assistance of my friend Dr. Petermann, whose praiseworthy efforts have opened the way for establishing among us a chair of Armenian literature, I have been enabled here and there to avail myself of Armenian sources of information hitherto unexplored.

May the indefatigable labours of this estimable man, in a field which promises so rich a harvest, meet with the acknowledgment and the patronage they so eminently deserve.

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Excerpt from General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Vol. 5

May God, therefore, who has bestowed this blessing on you, preserve your health and strength to work amongst us yet many years by your science and your life, in this spirit, for his kingdom; and may he give you to enjoy an ever increasing pleasure and delight in this work. May he bless also our union, and cause us to be a mutual help, as becomes Christian friends to be, to each other, by strengthening each other's hands, encouraging each other's hearts, and correcting each other's errors. May he enable us to labour together for one common end, even that - to use the language of the great Erasmus - ut Christus ille purus atque simplex inseratur mentibus hominum, an end to which science itself must also be subservient.

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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.