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BY J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNÉ, D. D.

PRESIDENT OF THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF GENEVA, AND VICF
PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIÉTÉ ÉVANGELIQUE.

TRANSLATED BY H. WHITE,

8. A. TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, M. A. AND PH. DR. HEIDELBERG.

THE TRANSLATION CAREFULLY REVISED BY DR. MERLE D'AUBIGNI

NEW YORK.

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,
530 BROADWAY.

1879.

This volume is an exact reprint of the author's original English edition. In issuing it, the publishers express no sanction of any thing concerning which evangelical Christians differ, as to the polity of the Church of Christ.

J'appelle accessoire, l'estat des affaires de ceste vie caduque et transitoire. J'appelle principal, le gouvernement spirituel auquel reluit souverainement la providence de Dieu.-Théodore de Bèze.

By accesso: I mean the state of affairs in this frail and transitory life; by principal, the spiritual government in which God's providerve rles supreme-Theodore Beza.

PREFACE TO VOLUME FIFTH

In the four previous volumes the author has described the origin and essential development of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century on the Continent; he has now to relate the history of the Reformation in England.

The notes will direct the reader to the principal sources whence the author has derived his information. Most of them are well known; some, however, had not been previously explored, among which are the later volumes of the State Papers published by order of Government, by a Commission of which the illustrious Sir Robert Peel was the first president. Three successive Home Secretaries, Sir James Graham, Sir George Grey, and the Honourable Mr S. H.. Walpole, have presented the author with copies of the several volumes of this great and important collection: in some instances they were communicated to him as soon as printed, which was the case in particular with the seventh volume, of which he has made much use. He takes this opportunity of expressing his sincere gratitude to these noble friends of literature.

The History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century was received with cordiality on the Continent, but it has had a far greater number of readers in the British dominions and in the United States. The author looks upon the rela

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