CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME Conflagration of Rome and of the World ... The Primitive Christians condemn Pleasure and Luxury Their Sentiments concerning Marriage and Chastity Their Aversion to the Business of War and Government The Conduct of the Roman Government towards the Christians, from the Toleration of the Jewish Religion ... The Jews were a People which followed, the Christians a Sect ... The Union and Assemblies of the Christians considered Remarks on the Passage of Tacitus relative to the Persecution of the Christians by Nero Oppression of the Jews and Christians by Domitian Ignorance of Pliny concerning the Christians Humanity of the Roman Magistrates Inconsiderable Number of Martyrs Example of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage 180 State of the Christians in the Reigns of Commodus and Severus ... The Sentence is executed by Aurelian 284-303. Peace and Prosperity of the Church under Diocletian Progress of Zeal and Superstition among the Pagans Maximian and Galerius punish a few Christian Soldiers Galerius prevails on Diocletian to begin a general Persecution In Illyricum and the East, under Galerius and Maximin Maximin prepares to renew the Persecution |