A CHURCH HISTORY TO THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON, A.D. 451. BY CHR. WORDSWORTH, D.D. BISHOP OF LINCOLN. VOL. I.-TO THE COUNCIL OF NICEA, A.D. 325. Third Edition. 8s. 6d. VOL. II.-TO THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE, A.D. 381. Second Edition. 6s. VOL. III.-CONTINUATION FROM A.D. 381. Second Edition. 6s. VOL. IV.-CONTINUATION TO THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON, A.D. 451. Second Edition. 6s. WITH INDEX TO THE WHOLE WORK. Lately published, by the Bishop of Lincoln. CONJECTURAL EMENDATIONS on Passages of Ancient GUIDES AND GOADS: being Short Sentences from the RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON. A CHURCH HISTORY BY CHR. WORDSWORTH, D.D. BISHOP OF LINCOLN VOL. III. CONTINUATION FROM THE COUNCIL OF SECOND EDITION RIVINGTONS WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON MDCCCLXXXIV [All rights reserved.] PREFACE TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH VOLUMES. THE Preface to the first Volume of this History, which, after some years of hope and preparation, is now brought to a conclusion, contained a statement of the design which the Author conceived in undertaking it, and which he has now attempted to exe cute. He proposed to himself an endeavour to realize the leading idea which guided the ancient Church Historians, and which animated S. Augustine in his work "On the City of God," and which is unfolded in the Revelation of St. John, in the representation of the destinies of the Church from the first Advent of Christ to the end of the World. According to that idea, the History of the Church displays a continual struggle of two antagonistic Powers, Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, the City of this World and the City of God. It shows how Evil has been permitted to assail the Church in various forms,-Persecution, Heresy, Schism, Superstition, Worldliness, Secularism, and Unbelief; how Good has been elicited from Evil, and Evil has been over |