Please Note: This book has been reprinted many times. This particular reprint has been carefully re-formatted, edited and has footnotes. THE REFORMATION of the Sixteenth Century is the principal source of our civil and religious freedom. We are living in the era which it inaugurated, and are moulded by its influence. For this reason, it deserves to be studied by all who are interested in the development of the Church and State. The author has not ventured to write a history of this eventful period. He has, however, made it the subject of many lectures, and of these a series is here presented. Though the best authorities have been consulted and freely quoted, the general purpose has been popular rather than scholastic. Of the work of the most distinguished leaders of the Reformation no more than a brief sketch has been attempted; but men of less celebrity have been assigned to the position which is believed to be their due. There has been no disposition to exalt some men at the expense of others, and that subjects of controversy have not been prominently presented. Good book to give one a foundation for Reformation studies.
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