Sketches of the Reformation and Elizabethan Age: Taken from the Contemporary Pulpit (Classic Reprint)

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I have to thank you for access to the Lambeth Library, whence a large portion of the present volume is derived, but this would be a very inadequate acknow ledgement for kindness which dates long before that fine collection had the benefit of your keeping. Your society then led me to form opinions essential I believe to a candid review of the Reformation, although sabse quent years, during which I had not that privilege, may have so modified them as to prevent me from assuming that they have at present more than a general resem blance to your own. Still it gives me pleasure to say where I first was led to converse, however distantly, with ancient piety and wisdom, to watch the designs of Providence unfolded in church history, to venerate men who sustained the light of faith and holiness in dark ages without mimicking the peculiarities of their times, and to revere the virtues and honesty of our Reformers, nor yet allow them an infallibility they denied the Pope.

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