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Che Protestant Reformers and the Reformation.

A LECTURE,

DELIVERED BEFORE THE

HUDDERSFIELD

YOUNG MEN'S

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION,

IN THE

PHILOSOPHICAL HALL OF THAT TOWN,

ON TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4th, 1853.

BY WILLIAM ANTLIFF,

PRIMITIVE METHODIST MINISTER.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY THOMAS HOLLIDAY,

AT THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST BOOK-ROOM, SUTTON STREET, COMMERCIAL
ROAD, ST. GEORGE'S IN THE EAST;

ALSO BY WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND MAY BE HAD OF THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST MINISTERS.

PRICE TWOPENCE.
1853.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

Ir were equally false and foolish to lay claim to much originality for the contents of these pages. But the importance of a subject is not always in a ratio with its novelty. And if the author can "discern the signs of the times," the principles involved in, and developed by, the protestant reformation in Europe, which may be said to have begun in the fourteenth, and been consummated in the sixteenth century,-are at this day of paramount importance. Hence, when he was requested to take part in a course of lectures to the Huddersfield Young Men's Christian Association, he adopted the present, as being in his judgment, a most appropriate theme. And adding to the intrinsic claims of his subject, the favour with which its public discussion was received, he has resolved to commit his lecture to the press; hoping that a considerable class of persons, to whom costly and voluminous works are denied, may derive some humble measure of instruction and profit from its perusal.

For the facts adduced, the authority of Mosheim, D'Aubigne, Jones, and others, may be pleaded.

May the spirit of the devoted men whose career is herein briefly traced, descend more largely upon the churches of our own land, and of all professing Christendom!

LIVERPOOL, Feb. 1853.

W. A.

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