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Excerpt from Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 2 of 2: To Which Is Added, an Essay on Christian Temperance and Self-Denial
The subject of the present lecture is remarks on the Origin, the nature, and the consequences of the controversies, that, in the early ages, arose in the church, and on the methods that were taken to terminate them by diocesansynods, and ecumenical councils. Though this may, at first sight, appear a digression from the examination of the Roman policy, exercised in raising the Wonderful fabric of Spiritual tyranny, yet, on a nearer View, it will be found to be intimately connected with that policy, insomuch, that, the progress of the latter is, without a competent knowledge of the former, scarcely intelligible.
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