Excerpt from An Ecclesiastical History From the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century

This second volume of the Manual of Ecclesiastical History completes the work, the first volume of which was issued four years ago. That volume brought the history down to the close of the reign of Innocent III., the commencement of the thirteenth century, and the present volume resumes the history at that point, and continues it to the beginning of the nineteenth century. While each volume forms a complete history of a definite period in itself, the two volumes constitute a continuous narrative of the prominent events of Church History for the eighteen centuries. It is unnecessary for the author to state again the extreme difficulty of telling so long and complicated a story in so short a space, and to repeat the assurance of the anxious care and labor with which he has striven to overcome that difficulty, and to present the facts in their right relative position of importance.

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