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There are some advocates who would disgrace Christianity, if Christianity could be disgraced, by the manner in which they defend her cause.
Vindication (1779)
The virtue of the primitive Christians, like that of the first Romans, was very frequently guarded by poverty and ignorance.
It was in the school of Alexandria that the Christian theology appears to have assumed a regular and scientifical form.
The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind.
The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)
[T]he Christians, in the course of their intestine dissensions, have inflicted far greater severities on each other than they had experienced from the zeal of infidels.
The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)
The condemnation of the wisest and most virtuous of the Pagans, on account of their ignorance or disbelief of the divine truth, seems to offend the reason and the humanity of the present age. But the primitive church, whose faith was of a much firmer consistence, delivered over, without hesitation, to eternal torture the far greater part of the human species.