Two years ago I revisited, with great satisfaction, the classical localities made memorable by the Reformation,-Wittenberg, Eisleben, Eisenach, the Wartburg, Halle, Leipzig, Jena, Weimar, Erfurt, Gotha, Heidelberg, Zuerich, Geneva,-and found kind friends and Christian brethren everywhere. I have studied the Luther literature in Berlin, the Zwingli literature in Zuerich, the Calvinistic literature in Geneva and Paris, the English and Scotch Reformation in London, Oxford, and Edinburgh. I have collected much material for a comprehensive history of the Reformation, in the libraries of Europe, during several summer visits (thirteen in all), and digested it at home. He must follow the footsteps of Divine Providence, which shapes our ends, and guides all human events in the interest of truth, righteousness, and peace. The historian must be impartial, without being neutral or indifferent. We poor mortals know only "in part," and see "in a mirror, darkly." But, as the plans of Providence unfold themselves, the prospect widens, old prejudices melt away, and hope and charity expand with our vision.
God alone foreknows the future, and sees the end from the beginning. The signs of the times point to a new era in the ever onward March of Christ’s kingdom. Truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, is the aim of the historian but truth should be told in love ( Eph. Facts must control dogmas, and not dogmas facts. The dogma of papal infallibility is fatal to freedom of investigation. Protestantism with its freedom can afford to be fair and just to Romanism, which is chained to its traditions. The theological battles of the sixteenth century are being fought over again in modern thought, with a slow but steady approach to a better understanding and filial settlement. The Luther and Zwingli celebrations of 18 have revived its memories, and largely increased its literature while scholars of the Roman Church have attempted, with great ability, an ultramontane reconstruction of the history of Germany and Europe during the period of the Reformation. This makes it, next to the Apostolic age, the most important and interesting portion of church history. The Reformation was a republication of primitive Christianity, and the inauguration of modern Christianity. we try to give more, this is a very big work, but it goes to the glory of God.I publish the history of the Reformation in advance of the concluding volume on the Middle Ages, which will follow in due time.
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