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An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century In Which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power are Considered in Their Connexion with the State of Learning and Philosophy and the Political History of Europe During that Period. VOL. IV BY THE LATE LEARNED JOHN LAWRENCE MOSHEIM D.D. Translated by Archibald Maclaine Published by Evert Duyckink et al., NY, 1824. Full leather bound. Volume IV only. Very good leather hardcover, cracks to joints but holding well. Tight binding, solid spine, previous owner's stamp to title page, clean unmarked text has foxing throughout. 8vo, 474 pages. Johann Lorenz von Mosheim or Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1693 – 1755) was a German Lutheran church historian. Mosheim was much consulted by the authorities when the new University of Göttingen was being formed, especially in the framing of the statutes of the theological faculty, and the provisions in the process of making the theologians independent of the ecclesiastical courts. In 1747 he was made chancellor of the university. In 1748 he was responsible for the visit made by George II of Great Britain to his university. Maclaine's translation, the Institutes were retitled An Ecclesiastical History: Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: in which The Rise, Progress And Variation of Church Power Are Considered In Their Connection With the State Of Learning And Philosophy, and The Political History of Europe During that Period, and Mosheim's name was Anglicized as "John Lawrence Mosheim, D.D., Chancellor of the University of Göttingen.” His Ecclesiastical History provided a crucial source for Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Gibbon borrowed many of Mosheim's arguments. Loc: E15 Store Add to Favorites Feedback 1824 LUTHERAN GERMAN CHURCH Ecclesiastical History Mosheim LEATHER Gibbons ROME An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century In Which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power are Considered in Their Connexion with the State of Learning and Philosophy and the Political History of Europe During that Period. VOL. IV BY THE LATE LEARNED JOHN LAWRENCE MOSHEIM D.D. Translated by Archibald Maclaine Published by Evert Duyckink et al., NY, 1824. Full leather bound. Volume IV only. Very good leather hardcover, cracks to joints but holding well. Tight binding, solid spine, previous owner's stamp to title page, clean unmarked text has foxing throughout. 8vo, 474 pages. Johann Lorenz von Mosheim or Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1693 – 1755) was a German Lutheran church historian. Mosheim was much consulted by the authorities when the new University of Göttingen was being formed, especially in the framing of the statutes of the theological faculty, and the provisions in the process of making the theologians independent of the ecclesiastical courts. In 1747 he was made chancellor of the university. In 1748 he was responsible for the visit made by George II of Great Britain to his university. Maclaine's translation, the Institutes were retitled An Ecclesiastical History: Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: in which The Rise, Progress And Variation of Church Power Are Considered In Their Connection With the State Of Learning And Philosophy, and The Political History of Europe During that Period, and Mosheim's name was Anglicized as "John Lawrence Mosheim, D.D., Chancellor of the University of Göttingen.” His Ecclesiastical History provided a crucial source for Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Gibbon borrowed many of Mosheim's arguments. Loc: E15