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GENERAL HISTORY

OF THE

CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND CHURCH:

FROM THE GERMAN OF

DR. AUGUSTUS NEANDER.

TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE LATEST EDITION.

BY

JOSEPH TORREY,

PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT.

"Let both grow together until the harvest."- Words of our Lord.

Les uns Christianisant le civil et le politique, les autres civilisant la Christianisme, il se forma de ce mélange un

monstre."- St. Martin.

VOLUME SECOND:

COMPRISING THE SECOND GREAT DIVISION OF THE HISTORY.

ELEVENTH AMERICAN EDITION,

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.

BOSTON: H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

Cambridge: The Riverside Press.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

CROCKER & BREWSTER,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

DEDICATED

TO MY EARLY AND FAITHFUL FRIEND,

DR. KARL SIEVEKING,

SYNDIC OF THE FREE TOWN OF HAMBURG,

OUR COMMON AND BELOVED NATIVE CITY:

IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR EARLY FRIENDSHIP, WHICH, HAVING GROWN OUT OF WHAT IS ETERNAL, CANNOT PERISH.

Berlin, September 30th, 1829.

WITH heartfelt joy, and thankfulness to Him in whose hands our life is, I now renew this dedication, April 30th, 1846, to serve as an abiding memorial of that union of souls which was formed in the enthusiasm of youth, for the whole of life, and which, with God's help, shall endure, under all diversities of outward condition, down to the grave and beyond it.

A. NEANDER.

DEDICATION OF PART II.

TO THE VERY REVEREND ABBOT,

DR. G. J. PLANCK,

ON THE DAY OF THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF HIS INDUCTION INTO THE SACRED OFFICE.

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WILL you, on this day, when so many doubtless will unite in showing you the testimonies of their love, esteem, and gratitude, also receive, with your usual condescension, this expression of his hearty, inextinguishable thanks, from an old pupil, who presents you a gift, which, insignificant as it may be to you, is yet, from his own position, the best he has to offer. Though with many things in this book you may not be satisfied, still you will not fail to recognize, in his earnest endeavors to be charitably just, the pupil who, from the great master himself to whom he is under so many obligations, first learned to strive after the suum cuique in his construction of historical facts. And with your own candid justice, which, ennobled by the spirit of charity, has been tried through half a century, you will know how to place the right estimate on each of your pupils who with earnest intentions labors on at his own position. Therefore it is, that I confidently rely on your indulgence, in offering you this token of grateful love and respect.

Praise be to God, who gave us you to be our instructor, and who has preserved you to us so long and long may he still preserve you, honored teacher, to shine as a light before us by your precepts and your example.

This, on this day, is the warmest wish of your affectionate and grateful pupil,

A. NEANDER.

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