Library of the Theological Seminary: Princeton, New Jersey (Classic Reprint)

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BY an arrangement concluded with Messrs Clark, which extends also over the subsequent volumes promised in the Preface to the American edition, I appear before the English public with this work on the most important and most interesting period of church history. In doing so, I feel not as a stranger amongst strangers, but as a friend amongst friends and fellow-labourers in the same vineyard of our common Lord and Saviour. For although a Swiss by birth and a German by education, I have now lived ten years in America, which is substantially a con tinuation of England in religion as well as in language, politics, and social life, and have had ample opportunity to come in con tact with the various branches of English and anglo-american theology and Christianity. I have, therefore, made frequent reference to English literature, as far as it touches on the same subject; and, in the proposed continuation of the work to the present time, I intend to devote much more space to the history of the church in Great Britain and the United States than is generally done by German authors, who can hardly be expected to have a full and adequate conception of the anglo-american world, and its important bearings upon all the interests of Christ's kingdom.

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