Excerpt from Church History to the Council of Nic?a: A. D. 325
It has long been the Author's wish to offer to the rising generation a view of the History, Doctrine, and Discipline of the Christian Church from the Day of Pentecost to the Council of Nic?a.
This desire has been quickened by signs of the times at home and abroad.
Many things seem to show that the Church ought to be preparing herself to live, as it were, again in the Ante-Nicene age.
The predictions also of sacred Prophecy, which has foretold that the opposition, with which the Church had to contend in those earlier times after the first Advent of Christ, will reproduce itself, with more intensity, in the latter days, before His Second Coming, may now be deemed to be in course of fulfilment.
In some countries, the Christian Church is separated from the State, as it was in the first three centuries of the Christian era.
In other parts of the world, the temporal Power is withdrawing its support from the Church; and in others, it is arraying itself in antagonism to it.
These two latter cases differ widely from the former.
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