THE ANCIENT CHURCH: ITS HISTORY, DOCTRINE, WORSHIP, AND CONSTITUTION, TRACED FOR THE FIRST THREE HUNDRED YEARS. 1.am BY W. D. KILLEN, D.D., PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY TO THE "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God." PSALM 1XXXvii. 3. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER, 124 GRAND STREET. M.DCCC.LIX. NON THENEW YORK ASTOR, LENOX AND DEN FOUNDATIONS. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PAUL'S WORK. PREFATORY NOTE. " I CANNOT permit this Edition of "THE ANCIENT CHURCH to appear before the citizens of the United States without acknowledging my obligations to Mr Charles Scribner of New York. Mr Seribner was the first gentleman connected with the noble profession to which he belongs, either in the Old or in the New World, from whom I received encouragement in this undertaking; and his prompt and generous offers aided me materially in making arrangements for the publication of the work in Great Britain. Every line of the present impression has been corrected by myself, and should my life be spared, any future Edition which Mr Scribner may publish is to appear under the same supervision. I trust that the Trade throughout the Union will recognize the debt of gratitude which I owe to my American friend. There is a higher law than the law of international copyright, and I feel confident that no Publisher of honour and integrity in the Great Republic will repudiate its claims. W. D. KILLEN. 17 UNIVERSITY SQUARE, BELFAST, IRELAND, July 1859. |