. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. ion, therefore, they FOURTH CENTURY. 91 appealed to Diocletian and Galerius Coesar; by whoma most bloody persecution was commenced A. D. 303,and continued till 311. An asylum, however, wasopened for the Christians in the year 304. Galeriushaving dethroned Diocletian and Maximian, declaredhimself emperor in the east; leaving all the westernprovinces, to which great numbers of Christians resort-ed to avoid the cruelty of the former, t
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. ion, therefore, they FOURTH CENTURY. 91 appealed to Diocletian and Galerius Coesar; by whoma most bloody persecution was commenced A. D. 303,and continued till 311. An asylum, however, wasopened for the Christians in the year 304. Galeriushaving dethroned Diocletian and Maximian, declaredhimself emperor in the east; leaving all the westernprovinces, to which great numbers of Christians resort-ed to avoid the cruelty of the former, to ConstantiusChlorus. At length Galerius being afflicted with anincurable and dreadful disease, published an edict or-dering the persecution to cease, and restoring freedomto the Christians, whom he had most inhumanly op-pressed for eight years. Galerius died the same year;and in a short time after, when Constantino the Greatascended the throne, the Christians were freed fromany farther uneasiness, by his abrogating all thepenal laws against them, and afterwards issuingedicts, by which no other religion than the Christianwas tolerated throughout the 92 THE BISHOPS OF ROME. SECTION 11. HISTORY OF THE CHURCn OF ROME FROM ITS ESTA-BLISHMENT TO THE ERECTION OF THE POPES SU-PREMACY BY PHOCAS.
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