A compleat and compendious church-history shewing how it hath been from the beginning of the world to this present day : being an historical-narrative how the power and providence of God, according to his promise, hath hitherto confounded all the damnable plots of the Devil : to which is annexed a Scripture-prophecy fore-shewing how it shall be hence to the end of the world : to whole containing the quintessence of sacred, civil and ecclesiastick-writers, and serving as a short comment upon all the books in the Bible, both historical and prophetical / published for publick good by Christopher Ness ...

Title

A compleat and compendious church-history shewing how it hath been from the beginning of the world to this present day : being an historical-narrative how the power and providence of God, according to his promise, hath hitherto confounded all the damnable plots of the Devil : to which is annexed a Scripture-prophecy fore-shewing how it shall be hence to the end of the world : to whole containing the quintessence of sacred, civil and ecclesiastick-writers, and serving as a short comment upon all the books in the Bible, both historical and prophetical / published for publick good by Christopher Ness ...

Author

Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.

Publication

London :: Printed by T.H. and are to be sold by Jacob Sampson ... and by Johathan Wilkins ...,

1680.

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Subject terms

Bible -- Prophecies.

Church history -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Robert Clayton, Lord Mayor of London.
• ERRATA.
• The Table of the Devils Plots against the Church, Defeated by God.
• THE PREFACE.
• AN Historical Narrative OF THE Devils Plotts AGAINST THE CHURCH, All Defeated by GOD.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IIII.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • CHAP. XV.
  • CHAP. XVI.
  • CHAP. XVII.
  • CHAP. XVIII.
  • CHAP. XIX.
  • CHAP. XX.
  • CHAP. XXI.
  • CHAP. XXII.
  • CHAP. XXIII.
  • CHAP. XXIV.
  • CHAP. XXV.
  • CHAP. XXVI,
  • CHAP. XXVII.
  • CHAP. XXVIII.
  • CHAP. XXIX.
  • CHAP. XXX.
  • CHAP. XXXI.
  • CHAP. XXXII.
  • CHAP. XXXIII.
  • XXXIV.
• BOOKS Published BY THE AƲTHOR.