JAMES A. JEREMIE, D.D., (REGIES PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,) REV. J. B. S. CARWITHEN, B.D., AND REV. A. LYALL. LONDON AND GLASGOW: PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. 1857. HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE Serand and Third Centuries. BY JAMES AMIRAUX JEREMIE, D.D. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, CAMBRIDGE. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.-OBSERVATIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE SECOND AND THIRD CENTURIES. SECTION 1. Introductory view of the principal Sources from which 3. Influence of the Pagan Religion; causes of the opposi- |