An abridgment of Ecclesiastical history, [electronic resource] : from the birth of Christ, to the beginning of the present century. In Which The Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power are considered By the late learned John Lawrence Mosheim, D. D. And Chancellor of the University of Gottingen. Translated from the original by Archibald Maclaine, M. A. Minister of the English Church at the Hague. And now abridged by a layman.