FROM THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES, TO ITS CONDEMNATION WITH AN APPENDIX, TRACING THE DOCTRINE DOWN TO THE Era of the Reformation. BY HOSEA BALLOU, 2d. BOSTON: MARSH AND CAPEN, 362 WASHINGTON ST. 1829. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT : District Clerk's Office. BE it remembered, that on the thirtieth day of October, A. D. 1828, in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Hosea Ballou, 2d, of the said district, has deposited in this Office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The Ancient History of Universalism: from the time of the Apostles, to its condemnation in the Fifth General Council A. D. 553. With an Appendix, tracing the doctrine down to the era of the Reformaion. By Hosea Ballou, 2d, Pastor of the Universalist Church and Soety in Roxbury." an In conformity to the act of the Congress of the U. States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned:" and also an act, entitled " act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Mass. DOW AND NILES, PRINTERS. 362 Washington st.-BOSTON. PREFACE CONTENTS. Opinions entertained by the christians, from A. D. 90, to A. D. 150, concerning future punishment, and the eventual salvation of the world, exhibited by means of all the relative passages in the Orthodox writings extant of this period, and Extent, condition, and common faith of THE ORTHODOX. Titles and character of their writings yet extant. - Epistle of Clemens Romanus. Date of 94-100 St. John's writings, and time of his death. Corruptions introduced into the Church. 116 to 126 Papias. Aristides. The Greek Philosophy. 131 What notions of the Gnostics were pe- Opinions of the christians from A. D. 150, to A. D. 190, concerning future punishment, and the eventual salvation of the world, illustrated by extracts from all the authors ex- Increase of Heretics. Gnostics. Ebi- onites. Character of the Orthodox. Change in the character of the christian The Sibylline Oracles, containing the - |