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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXVIII: Destruction Of Paganism
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Yet neither party would have found their account in this foolish bargain.] [Footnote 87: The worship practised and inculcated by Tertullian, Lactantius Arnobius, &c., is so extremely pure and spiritual, that their declamations against the Pagan sometimes glance against the Jewish, ceremonies.] [Footnote 88: Faustus the Manichaean accuses the Catholics of idolatry.
Vertitis idola in martyres....

quos votis similibus colitis.

M.de Beausobre, (Hist.

Critique du Manicheisme, tom.ii.p.

629-700,) a Protestant, but a philosopher, has represented, with candor and learning, the introduction of Christian idolatry in the fourth and fifth centuries.] [Footnote 89: The resemblance of superstition, which could not be imitated, might be traced from Japan to Mexico.


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