PREFACE.I publish the history of the Reformation in advance of the concluding volume on the Middle Ages, which will follow in due time.The Reformation was a republication of primitive Christianity, and the inauguration of modern Christianity.
PREFACE.This volume concludes the history of the productive period of the Reformation, in which Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin were the chief actors. It follows the Protestant movement in German, Italian, and French Switzerland, to the close of the sixteenth century.