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title of this book is well chosen and calculated to challenge
today's reader. Events that took place in the initial phase of
the church's history are presented in the record of Scripture,
while the most recent events have been well documented. But what
of the intervening years, and the chapter of events that bridges
the considerable gap between early and latter days?
The survival of
the authentic church is proof that God's hand of preservation
has rested upon this select, unique company over all the years
of existence. Not all the attacks that have been mounted by
Satan, many issuing from sources of organized religion, have
prevailed to the extinction of the church. E. H. Broadbent
reveals, through his painstaking research, how faithful
companies of God's people, with clear attachment to the teaching
of the scripture, upheld in their testimony and practices that
which God had instituted from the beginning. It makes for
thrilling reading and demonstrates the progress of a 'pilgrim
church' over centuries of darkness, declension and persecution.
This handsome
hard-back edition, of what has long been regarded as a classic
account of church history, deserves a place on everyone's
bookshelf. Additional to the contents of earlier editions is a
collection of maps, in colour, that give indication of the
locations and movements of these various groups of Christians
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