ABSTRACT
Gibbon, in his ‘History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,’ has dedicated one portion of his work to the enquiry, what human causes mainly contributed to the progress and first establishment of the Christian religion over so large a portion of the Roman world.a I propose in like manner in this essay to enquire as to what personal qualities in the author of that religion especially conduced to the causing this system of faith to experience the prosperous and wonderful fortune it has found among the inhabitants of the globe.
