An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events, Which Have Transpired From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events, Which Have Transpired From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time "The course of Religious Events embraces a more interesting history than all the secular achievements of man, since the Christian era commenced; and it is believed the cases are rare, where even those who are professedly interested in Religious History, are sufficiently acquainted with its various and highly interesting details." The reason for this has been, in many instances, that works on Religious History have generally been voluminons and expensive. To remedy this defect in some measure, has been one object of this work. It is, it will be perceived, arranged upon a new plan; the account of each event, or fact, is in some respects insulated; not being necessarily connected with any other. The object of the compiler was to give the reader a comprehensive view of each subject introduced. He has generally confined himself to the bare relation of facts as he found them, leaving his readers to draw their own inferences and conclusions. A short biographical sketch is given of persons distinguished in Religious History; and a chronological table of Religious Events is added: these, with the other part of the work, it is believed, will be found valuable as a book of reference, for facts which have been recorded in Church History. About the Publisher 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.