The Beginnings of the Christian Church Lectures Delivered in the Chapter Room
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Luke fails us, we have notices of the fortunes of Christianity from Jewish and Pagan as well as Chris- tian writers, which enable us to trace the main course of events, and so furnish a framework in which the apostolic epistles may fall into their place. But for the remainder of the time we propose to review in these lectures, the century or so after the Neronian persecution, we have no history of the Christian Church at all, and very few materials for such a history. We have a few Christian wr...itings, in the canon and beyond it ; a very few notices by Pagan writers of Christianity as existing, and that is all. We have to guess from the genuine writings of the THE CLOSE OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE. 151 time (and it is often a doubtful question which arc genuine) what state of things they imply, and then to judge as well as we can how far the traditions or conjectures of later ages agree with this authentic but indirect evidence. I have said that I see no reason to believe that Nero continued a systematic persecution of the Church after the one savage outbreak in the autumn of A.
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