OF ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS

A Literary History

From the Birth of Christ until the 14th Century. original: "Sæculum XIV."

Arranged in an easy method.

WHEREIN

Their lives and deeds, their sect, dogmas, praises, and style; their genuine, doubtful, forged, unpublished, and lost writings, and fragments; and the various editions of their works are clearly treated.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

PAGAN WRITERS, original: "Gentiles," referring here to non-Christian classical authors who interacted with or opposed Christianity.

Opponents of the Christian Religion; and a SUMMARY original: "Breviarium," a concise overview of historical events. of every Century.

Inserted in their proper places are several small works and fragments of the Ancients, both Greek and Latin, hitherto unpublished.

Finally, a PREFACE original: "Prolegomena," introductory treatises providing the necessary scholarly background for the study of antiquity. is provided, in which many matters concerning the study of Church Antiquity are presented.

A work equipped with the necessary indexes.

B Y T H E A U T H O R

WILLIAM CAVE, Professor of Sacred Theology,

Canon of Windsor.

Added by another hand is an

APPENDIX from the beginning of the 14th Century up to the year 1517. The year 1517 is significant as it marks the traditional start of the Protestant Reformation with Martin Luther's 95 Theses.

L O N D O N,

Printed by T. H. and at the expense of R I C H A R D C H I S W E L L at the sign of the Rose and Crown original: "Rosæ Coronatæ." In 17th-century London, booksellers were identified by signs hanging outside their shops rather than street numbers. in St. Paul’s Churchyard. 1688.