PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.

`PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT NEW YORK

Reprinted from the PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, VOL. II, No. 4

NEW YORK:

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1888

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1888

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