Excerpt from The Spouse of Christ, or the Church of the Crucified, Vol. 1 of 4: A Dogmatic and Historic Poem in Four PartsAnd built His Church their efforts to withstand, And show the work of His Almighty Hand, And prove to every age her Builder's skill.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.