Origines sive Antiquitates ecclesiasticæ - Bingham, Joseph 1668-1723 (Halle Orphanotrophei, 1724)
Bingham (1668-1723) was an ecclesiastical historian
the ten vols. of "Origines ecclesiasticæ" originally appeared between 1708 and 1722
His design, learnedly, exhaustively and impartially executed, was to give such a methodical account of the antiquities of the Christian Church as others have done of the Greek and Roman and Jewish antiquities, by reducing the ancient customs, usages and practices of the church under certain proper heads, whereby the reader may take a view at once of any particular usage or custom of Christians for four or five centuries.
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Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Religion; History