WITNESSES FOR CHRIST

AND

MEMORIALS OF CHURCH LIFE

FROM THE FOURTH TO THE THIRTEENTH
CENTURY.

A SEQUEL TO "EARLY CHURCH HISTORY."

BY

EDWARD BACKHOUSE

AND

CHARLES TYLOR.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO.

1887.
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Nothing more forcibly marks the weakness of a bad cause than persecution. Satan, who has no truth to propose to men, comes with axe and sword to make way for his errors. Christ's method is widely different. He teaches the truth, and says: "If any man will come after Me and be my disciple":-when He comes to the heart He uses no violence, but says, "Open to Me, my sister, my spouse." If we open He comes in; if we will not open He retires; for the truth is not preached with swords and spears, not by bands of soldiers, but by counsel and persuasion.-ATHANASIUS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

PERIOD II.

FROM THE DEATH OF AUGUSTINE, A.D. 430,

TO THE ACCESSION OF POPE GREGORY THE GREAT, A.D. 590.

FROM THE ACCESSION OF POPE GREGORY THE GREAT,

A.D. 590, TO THE END OF THE TENTH CENTURY.

FROM THE TENTH CENTURY TO THE TERMINATION OF

THE CRUSADE AGAINST THE ALBIGENSES, A.D. 1229.

Monastic Life in the Middle Ages (continued)—Cîteaux

CHAPTER IV.

Monastic Life in the Middle Ages (continued)-Clairvaux, and

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