Excerpt from A History of Preaching, Vol. 2 These three modern centuries are of the profoundest significance in the history Of human progress. Life has been more abundant, knowledge more comprehensive and varied, the processes of civilization more rapid and complex than in any period of human history. The Reformation in the sixteenth century set in motion forces which materially altered the course of things in all time following. That mighty epoch of turmoil and readjust ment can not be sharply defined, either at its beginning or at its end, but, like all other revolutions, it is an age of transition in which causes and forces peculiar to itself become visible and emphatic, and powerfully in fluence subsequent times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.