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[Illustration: MARTIN LUTHER.

WILL^M COLLINS, GLASGOW.]

  HISTORY

  OF

  THE REFORMATION

  IN THE

  SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

  BY
  J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNE, D.D.

  J'appelle accessoire, l'estat des affaires de ceste vie caduque et
  transitoire. J'appelle principal, le gouvernement spirituel auquel
  reluit souverainement la providence de Dieu.--THEODORE DE BEZE.

  By _accessory_ I mean the state of affairs in this fading and
  transitory life. By principal I mean the spiritual government in
  which the providence of God is sovereignly displayed.

  A NEW TRANSLATION:

  (CONTAINING THE AUTHOR'S LAST IMPROVEMENTS,)

  BY HENRY BEVERIDGE, ESQ. ADVOCATE.




  VOLUME FIRST.


  GLASGOW:
  PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM COLLINS.
  LONDON: R. GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS.
  1845.

  GLASGOW:
  WILLIAM COLLINS AND CO.,
  PRINTERS.




TRANSLATOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.


D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation is so well known and so highly
appreciated as to make it not only