OF THE REFORMATION; OR, ROMANISM AND THE REFORMERS. BY THE REV. ROBERT F. SAMPLE, D.D. WITH INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. JOHN HALL, D.D., LL.D. SECOND EDITION. PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION 1334 CHESTNUT STREET. HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. WESTCOTT & THOMSON, INTRODUCTION. BY JOHN HALL, D. D., LL.D. THE best force in this world is the truth of God's inspired word. If we are to be made wise and happy, if vice is to be put down and purity of mind and of life to be set up, divine truth is the instrument to be employed. It is the healing medicine for diseased humanity. The students of pharmacy attach much importance to the purity of the drugs given to the sick; and with good reason, for it is easy to see how another element, unnoticed by the ordinary patient, may destroy the healing properties of the remedy prescribed. And so the mixture of error unnoticed by the average man, or possibly deemed harmless if not even agreeable, may mar the efficacy of the revealed truth, and so far hinder the work the truth was meant to accomplish. The Christian religion was professed, honored by the arts in music, painting, sculpture and architecture, throughout Europe in the fifteenth century. It was |