History of Reformatory Movements: Resulting in a Restoration of the Apostolic Church, with a History of the Nineteen General Church Councils (Classic

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Excerpt from History of Reformatory Movements: Resulting in a Restoration of the Apostolic Church, With a History of the Nineteen General Church CouncilsI. A brief statement of the primitive order of things. 2. A sketch of the apostasy from the third century down to the times of Luther, or to the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. 3. A connected history of the Protestant period, which embraces the efforts made at reforma tion during. The space of three hundred years. 4. The Restoration of the Apostolic Church. 5. A history of the nineteen (ecumenical Church Councils - the study of the proceedings of which is highly in structive and interesting, they serving as a sort of spiritual thermometer of the troublous times of the Church, as the Church was manipulated by princes and priests. The various decrees of successive councils will show how kings and princes were deposed, the rivalries of ambitious men in Church and State, the origin of image worship, auricular confession, penance, the mass, celibacy, purgatory, prayers for the dead, transubstan tiatiori, etc etc. The subjects we have enumerated should be studied as they are not studied in these days of ¿ashy literature and fast living.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.