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A History of the Church from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation, Vols. I–III is unavailable, but you can change that!

George Waddington’s A History of the Church from Earliest Ages to the Reformation synthesizes fifteen centuries of church history into 3 volumes. Instead of following the chronological history of the church century by century, this classic church history is instead divided up according to connected themes and events. This enables an easier understanding of complex events and the consequences that...

capital of Syria obtained an easy and general reception throughout the province*. A correspondence between our Saviour himself and Abgarus, a prince of Edessa in Mesopotamia, is published at the end of the first book of Eusebius, as copied from the public records of the city. The genuineness of the correspondence has long ceased to find any advocate, and this is probably among the earliest of the many pious frauds which have disgraced the history of the Church: but the existence of the forged record
Volume 1, Page 7