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Preface: As all we know of history comes to us through books, I have examined, with some care, the authors which are most esteemed in this country and considered the most reliable. And although there is frequent reference to volume and page, this by no means indicates all that has been gathered from those histories. It would be impossible to say how many thoughts, words, and sentences, are interwoven with my own. The references have been generally given, not so much to verify what has been written, as to induce the reader to study them or whatever works may now be available as he may have opportunity. The materials are so varied and abundant, that the difficulty lies in making a selection, so as to maintain a continued historic line, and yet leave out what would now be neither profitable nor interesting.
Some of my earliest and valued friends, such as Greenwood, Milman, and Craigie Robertson, conclude their histories about the fourteenth century; Waddington, D'Aubigne, and Scott, about the middle of the sixteenth; and Wylie closes his history of Protestantism with its establishment under the reign of William and Mary. Dr. M'Crie's special histories and biographies are extremely valuable; and so is the history of Protestantism in France by Felice, the history of the Reformation in the Low Countries by Brandt, the brief history of the Middle Ages and the Reformation by Hardwick, and also Cunningham's history of the Scotch Church; but good general histories from the early part of the sixteenth to the present century are indeed scarce.
I have aimed at more than mere history. It has been my desire to connect with it Christ and His Word, so that the reader may receive the truth and blessing, through grace, to his soul. And it will be observed that I commence with the Lord's revealed purpose concerning His Church in Matt. 16 Other parts of the New Testament have been carefully examined as to the first planting of the Church, but its actual history I have endeavored to trace in the light of the addresses to the seven Churches in Asia. This, of course, must be in a very general way, as I have been desirous to give the reader as broad a view of ecclesiastical history as possible, consistently with my plan and brevity.
May the Lord's blessing accompany the volume that now goes forth.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Seven Churches of Asia
2. Foundation Truths: Chapter 1
3. Pentecost to Martyrdom of Stephen: Chapter 2
4. Stephen to Paul's Apostleship: Chapter 3
5. Apostles and Early Pioneers, The: Chapter 4
6. Paul's First Two Journeys: Chapter 5
7. Paul's Third Journey: Chapter 6
8. Rome and Her Rulers (64 A.D. - 177 A.D.): Chapter 7
9. Internal History of the Church (107 A.D. - 245 A.D.): Chapter 8
10. Rome and Her Rulers (180 A.D. - 313 A.D.): Chapter 9
11. Pergamos Period (313 A.D. - 606 A.D.): Chapter 10
12. Rome and Her Rulers (313 A.D. - 397 A.D.): Chapter 11
13. Internal History of the Church (245 A.D. - 451 A.D.): Chapter 12
14. Rome and Her Spreading Influence (397 A.D. - 590 A.D.): Chapter 13
15. Europe (372 A.D. - 814 A.D.): Chapter 14
16. Mohammedanish - Iconoclasm (569 A.D. - 741 A.D.): Chapter 15
17. Europe (653 A.D. - 855 A.D.): Chapter 16
18. Europe (814 A.D. - 1000 A.D.): Chapter 17
19. Europe (1000 A.D. - 1110 A.D.): Chapter 18
20. Pope Gregory VII (1049 A.D. - 1085 A.D.): Chapter 19
21. Crusades (1093 A.D. - 1213 A.D.): Chapter 20
22. Rome (1106 A.D. - 1190 A.D.): Chapter 21
23. England (1162 A.D. - 1174 A.D.): Chapter 22
24. Rome's Theology: Chapter 23
25. Pope Innocent III (1198 A.D. - 1216 A.D.): Chapter 24
26. France (814 A.D. - 1229 A.D.): Chapter 25
27. Monastic Order (480 A.D. - 1275 A.D.): Chapter 26
28. Dawn of the Reformation (1155 A.D. - 1386 A.D.): Chapter 27
29. Decline of Papal Power (1216 A.D. - 1314 A.D.): Chapter 28
30. Forerunners of the Reformation (1150 A.D. - 1594 A.D.): Chapter 29
31. Wycliffe's Tertimony and Triumph (1324 A.D. - 1417 A.D.): Chapter 30
32. Bohemia (1409 A.D. - 1471 A.D.): Chapter 31
33. Printed Word of God (1397 A.D. - 1516 A.D.): Chapter 32
34. Luther: German Reformation (1483 A.D. - 1517 A.D.): Chapter 33
35. Luther: German Reformation (1517 A.D. - 1521 A.D.): Chapter 34
36. Luther: German Reformation (1521 A.D. - 1529 A.D.): Chapter 35
37. Protestantism: Germany (1526 A.D. - 1529 A.D.): Chapter 36
38. Sacramentarian Controversy (1529 A.D.), The: Chapter 37
39. Diet of Augsburg, Germany (1530 A.D.), The: Chapter 38
40. Diet of Augsburg, Germany (1530 A.D. - 1531 A.D.), The: Chapter 39
41. Zwingle: Switzerland (1484 A.D. - 1522 A.D.): Chapter 40
42. Zwingle: Switzerland (1522 A.D. - 1523 A.D.): Chapter 41
43. Zwingle: Switzerland (1524 A.D.): Chapter 42
44. Zwingle: Switzerland (1525 A.D. - 1529 A.D.): Chapter 43
45. Zwingle: Switzerland (1529 A.D. - 1531 A.D.): Chapter 44
46. Luther: German Reformation (1532 A.D. - 1546 A.D.): Chapter 45
47. Germany (1545 A.D. - 1547 A.D.): Chapter 46
48. Germany (1547 A.D. - 1552 A.D.): Chapter 47
49. Reformation in Europe (1520 A.D. - 1590 A.D.): Chapter 48
50. Reformation in French Switzerland (1489 A.D. - 1564 A.D.): Chapter 49
51. Reformation in France (1512 A.D. - 1549 A.D.): Chapter 50
52. Reformation in France (1547 A.D. - 1572 A.D.): Chapter 51
53. Waldenses (1560 A.D. - 1689 A.D.): Chapter 52
54. Ireland - Scotland (1526 A.D. - 1560 A.D.): Chapter 53
55. Reformation in England (1509 A.D. - 1558 A.D.): Chapter 54
56. Reformation in England (1558 A.D. - 1800 A.D.): Chapter 55
57. England (1800 A.D. - 1860 A.D.): Chapter 56