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Excerpt from A History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, Vol. 3: Compiled From Original Writers, Proving That the Christian Church Was at First Unitarian Covered by mankind, but even to be re tained by any of them, after it was revealed, without particular provifions that pur pofe. Though, I have no do t, but that the firf't parents of the hum race were infirueted in the knowled the divine unity, their potterity foon adopted the no tion of different gods, to whom they ima gined the government of the world was delegated and their attention to thefe in ferior deities, on whom'they thought that they more immediately depended, With drew their attention, as it naturally would, from the fupreme God, under whom 'they at firft fuppofed that thefe lefi'er. Gods had aeted. Then, being left to their own imaginations with refpeet to the chara id: of thefe'gods, and having no models by Which to frame them befides beings like. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."