Excerpt from Origines Ecclesiasticae, or the Antiquities of the Christian Church, and Other Works, of the Rev. Joseph Bingham, M.A. Formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford; And Afterwards Rector of Headbourn Worthy, and Havant, Hampshire, Vol. 1 of 8: With a Set of Maps of Ecclesiastical Geography, to Which Are Now Added, Several Sermons, and Other Matter, Never Before Published, the Whole Revised and Edited, Together With a Biographical Account of the Author Opinions of the Fathers. But as it is my intention to publish the whole of these sermons, with the prefaces of the writer, in the concluding volume of this edition, it would be useless to enter here into any further comment or explanation respect ing them. Thus much, however, it has appeared to me proper to say, in the commencement of the biographical account of this eminent divine, lest a censure of any sort, though every trace of it is now expunged from their records, having been passed by those, who were at that time leading characters in a great and learned University, might at first view be considered as a blot in the character of one, who, not only by the still existing testimony of all his writings, but also by every account, which has been handed down from his parishioners, or his own immediate family, was both in his private lifh, and in his literary pursuits, in his morality, disposition, and religious tenets, irreproachable and exemplary. About six years after our Author had taken.up his residence at Worthy, he married Dorothea, one of the daugh ters of the Rev. Richard at that time rectorof Colmere, in Hampshire. Bythis lady, in the course of a few years, and before he had any other preferment than the small living above mentioned, he became the father of ten children. 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.