HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE IN THE TIME OF CALVIN. BY J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNÉ, D.D. AUTHOR OF THE 'HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY' ETC. 'Les choses de petite durée ont coutume de devenir fanées, quand elles ont passé leur 'Au règne de Christ, il n'y a que le nouvel homme qui soit florissant, qui ait de la LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. PREFACE. AT T the conclusion of the preface to the first volume of the History of the Reformation, the author wrote, 'This work will consist of four volumes, or at the most five, which will appear successively.' These five volumes have appeared. In them are described the heroic times of Luther, and the effects produced in Germany and other countries by the characteristic doctrine of that reformer-justification by faith. They present a picture of that great epoch which contained in the germ the revival of christianity in the last three centuries. The author has thus completed the task he had assigned himself; but there still remained another. The times of Luther were followed by those of Calvin. He, like his great predecessor, undertook to search the Scriptures, and in them he found the same truth and the same life; but a different character distinguishes his work. The renovation of the individual, of the Church, and of the human race, is his theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (accord |