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Table of Contents

Study Section 1: The 1st Century Church Age ...........................................................................................................3

A Quick Review of 1st Century Church History ......................................................................................................4
Characteristics of the Early Church ........................................................................................................................5

Why Persecution Came ..........................................................................................................................................5

The First Great Persecution under Nero – 64 AD. – 67 AD ....................................................................................6
The Early Church – the Growth and Struggle Years ...............................................................................................8

Study Section 2: Apologists of the Early Church ........................................................................................................9
Polycarp – Bishop of Smyrna (cir. 89-168).............................................................................................................9

2nd and 3rd Centuries ......................................................................................................................................... 10
The Church in Favor ............................................................................................................................................. 11

Athanasius 296 AD – 373 AD ............................................................................................................................ 12
Augustine of Hippo 354-430 ................................................................................................................................ 14

Study Section 3: Heroes from 1225 AD – 1628 AD ................................................................................................. 17
Thomas Aquinas 1225-74 .................................................................................................................................... 18

Martin Luther 1483 – 1546 ................................................................................................................................ 20

William Tyndale 1494 – 1536 ........................................................................................................................... 22
Study Section 4: Heroes between 1626 - 1708 ...................................................................................................... 26

John Bunyan 1628 – 1788 .................................................................................................................................. 26
Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758 ........................................................................................................................... 28

John Wesley 1703- 1801...................................................................................................................................... 31
Study Section 5: Heroes between 1709 - 1759 ..................................................................................................... 34

William Grimshaw of Haworth 1709 – 1763 ..................................................................................................... 34

George Whitefield 1714-1770 ........................................................................................................................... 37
Study Section 6: Heroes between 1759 - 1787 ...................................................................................................... 41

William Wilberforce 1759 – 1833 ....................................................................................................................... 41
William Carey 1761 – 1834 .................................................................................................................................. 44

Study Section 7: Heroes between 1788 - 1818 ..................................................................................................... 48
Adoniram Judson 1788 – 1850 .......................................................................................................................... 48

George Muller 1805 – 1898 ................................................................................................................................. 51

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