This occurred during the reign of Valentinus: Damasus and Ursinus, being both immoderately eager to obtain the bishopric, formed parties...

being eager to extend the recollection of his reign (Julian) by the greatness of his exploits, he proposed to rebuild at a vast expense...

“When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to...

I perused your Tracts with Pleasure. I see you inherit all the various Learning of your famous Ancestors Cotton and Increase Mather both...

Having received certain Gallic reinforcement he again drew near to Sulla and just as the two armies were coming to an engagement a Gaul...

I am extremely grateful for your letter giving the stages of your voyaging; it showed that you have not forgotten our friendly relations,...

So, too, the lawgiver of the Jews, no ordinary man, having formed a worthy conception of divine power and given expression to it, writes...

Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. Suetonius, The Lives of the...

Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chretus, he expelled them from Rome. Suetonius, The Lives of the...

He abolished foreign cults, especially the Egyptian and the Jewish rites, compelling all who were addicted to such superstitions to burn...

As the lower ranks of society are governed by imitation, the conversion of those who possessed any eminence of birth, of power, or of...

The pious Christian, as he was desirous to obtain, or to escape, the glory of martyrdom, expected, either with impatience or with terror,...

Among the Christians who were brought before the tribunal of the emperor, or, as it seems more probable, before that of the procurator of...

The whole earth, or at least a celebrated province of the Roman empire, was involved in a preternatural darkness of three hours. Even...

The church of Rome was undoubtedly the first and most populous of the empire; and we are possessed of an authentic record which attests...

Under the reign of Theodosius, after Christianity had enjoyed, during more than sixty years, the sunshine of Imperial favour, the ancient...

It is my invariable rule, Sir, to refer to you in all matters where I feel doubtful; for who is more capable of removing my scruples, or...

4. Josephus throughout his histories makes much of the Book of Daniel. The Jewish historian was a contemporary of Paul and John. In about A.D. 80 Josephus wrote the story of his people from Abraham down to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. One of the most moving and beautiful narratives in all literature is his story of the sparing of the holy city by Alexander the Great during the latter’s conquest of the Persian Empire. It is recounted in his Antiquities of the Jews,

In doctrine and practice, the Rappites were similar to the Shakers,. Their founder, George Rapp (1770-1847), was a German peasant farmer of pietistic leanings who was persecuted in the homeland because of his refusal to adhere to the established church. He and three hundred of his pietist followers migrated to America in 1803 and 1804 to seek religious freedom and founded a communal settlement named Harmony in western Pennsylvania. The community prospered under Rapp's adminis

No single sermon made more of an impression upon its hearers than "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," preached by (Jonathan) Edwards at Enfield, Connecticut, in July, 1741. It was scarcely typical of his preaching, though it was indicative of the direction which the revival was following. Taking as his text Deuteronomy 32:35, "Their foot shall slide in due time," he explained that the vengeance of God was threatened on the wicked unbelieving Israelites. They were always e

The success of the people and Parliament of England in their efforts to gain greater freedom and more representation had made an impression on the people of Massachusetts. They were troubled that there was now more freedom in England than in the Bay Colony. Malcontents who had been denied the vote were horrified at the thought of being more restricted in New England than they would have been at home. It was inevitable that the future should bring an ever-increasing disharmony

The Anabaptist Balthasar Hubmaier gives a personal testimony. He became a priest in the Roman Catholic Church and a leading scholar without ever reading the New Testament directly:

Oecolampad: What I have said, preached, and written I would henceforth also do and prayerfully command others also to do, for your teaching is a wholly new fantasy, begun here and elsewhere in the past two years. Therefore it is suspect.

Zwingli : We let the women also go to the Lord's Supper, but do not read that women were at the Supper of Christ.