Excerpt from The History of the Church of Christ, Vol. 2: Containing the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
The encouragement, which I have received from a generous public, induces me to persevere. Be sides, the peculiar advantage of a work of this kind is, that it is capable of perfection, so far as it proceeds, without needing any support from subsequent parts. It is not like a connected thread of argumentation, which must be read throughout, before the full force of any particular portion of it be discerned.
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