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Excerpt from The Council of Constance: And the War in Bohemia; Published Under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Great events are Of slow production, as well as, consequently, of rare occurrence. That great work of Providence, the Reformation, was not effected at Once, nor brought forth without preparative and painful throes. Luther's and Cranmer's Reforma tion, though, when viewed as one, embracing all we popularly mean by the word, was neither the only nor the first Reformation: it indeed towers SO high, and. Looms so broadly on the eye of imagi nation, that we are apt to overlook both the re moter progressive heights which lead up to it, and the basis of gradual inquiry and heroic self-sacri fice for the truth on which it rests. 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.