A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient)

A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) is a book by John Henry Blunt. The book says the Apostles were solemnly set apart by our Lord after a night of watching and prayer. The book says a large portion of what is now stored up in the Holy Gospel for the instruction of the whole body of Christians was in the first instance spoken to the Apostles with a special view to their Apostolic vocation.

The book says St. James the Less, first Bishop of Jerusalem, was martyred A.D. 63 and succeeded by Simeon, the son of Cleopas, in whose episcopate the destruction of Jerusalem took place, A.D. 70. The book says that in A.D. 132 a rebellious outbreak of the Jews, under the leadership of Barchochebas, drew down on them a severe chastisement from the Emperor Hadrian. The book says the constant wars with England, and the confusion and bloodshed they entailed, had a very unfavourable effect on the prosperity and spiritual activity of the Church of Scotland.