Excerpt from Church History Through All Ages Through a period of many years, much time has been expended in collecting, arranging, and condensing the materials of this volume. The design of it professes to be to give a brief, but faithful representation of the "Church of God through all Ages, from the first Promise of a Saviour," down to our wondrous times. Archbishop Seeker has happily stated the principles upon which the Author has compiled this History. In his "Lectures on the Church Catechism," that judicious prelate says, "The Catholic church is the universal church spread through the world; and the Catholic faith is the universal faith; that form of doctrine which the apostles delivered to the whole church, and it received. What that faith was we may learn from their writings, contained in the New Testament; and, at so great a distance of time, we can learn it with certainty no where else. 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.