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Hardcover reprint of the original ca 1855? edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Cooper, Basil H. The Free Church Of Ancient Christendom And Its Ssbjugation Under Constantine. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Cooper, Basil H. The Free Church Of Ancient Christendom And Its Ssbjugation Under Constantine, . London: A. Cockshaw, ca 1855?. Subject: Church History Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600

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Excerpt from Free Church of Ancient Christendom: And Its Subjugation Under Constantine The present work makes no pretensions to rank as a Church History. It simply aims to present, in a series of rapid historical sketches, a general view of the process through which the Christian Church passed, from the day of her espousals to Christ, till she was brought to hail, what a living Roman-Catholic historian complacently calls, "her emancipation by Constantine." In the view which the Author had previously entertained, that the average lifetime of man is the natural unit in the chronological arrangement of history, he was greatly confirmed by meeting with the following passage in Mr. John Stuart Mill's admirable treatise on Logic. 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.

This volume makes available three works attributed to Constantine - two of which were certainly not written by him - which are important sources for historians of the papacy, Christianity and Constantine himself. The Oration to the Saints is an intellectual defence of Christianity, which puts the case for monotheism, extols the incarnation and voluntary abasement of the Son of God, and finally declares Constantine's personal adherence to the Saviour. The legend of the discovery of the True Cross by the empress Helena, mother of Constantine, following her conversion to Christianity is presented in translations of two variant accounts. The third text, the Edict of Constantine, presents Constantine's supposed edict to Pope Silvester transferring lands to the papacy. An introduction considers the authorship, motivation and historical context for each of the works, and extensive annotation elucidates textual difficulties and allusions.