A SKETCH OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT POSITION OF
THOSE WHO HAVE RECENTLY SEPARATED THEMSELVES

FROM THE CHURCH OF ROME;

WITH A SHORT NOTICE OF THE

STATE OF PROTESTANTISM IN PRUSSIA, AUSTRIA, BAVARIA, AND THE
PRUSSIAN BALTIC PROVINCES.

LIBRA

OF THE

R

UNIVERSITY
GERMAN

THE GERMAN CORRESPONDENT

"THE CONTINENTAL ECHO."

LONDON:

JOHN SNOW, 35, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1846.

WILLIAM AND RICHARD WOODCOCK,

PRINTERS, WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.

27591

TO

THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND;

THE INTREPID FOLLOWERS, IN 1843, OF THEIR HEROIC FOREFATHERS,

IN DESERTS AND MOUNTAINS, IN DENS AND CAVES OF THE EARTH,

("OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY,")

TO THE FIRST RELIGIOUS BODY IN BRITAIN

WHICH STRETCHED OUT THE HAND OF ENCOURAGEMENT

OR RAISED THE VOICE OF COUNSEL AND WARNING

TO THE RECENTLY EMANCIPATED FROM PAPAL CHAINS,

THIS SKETCH OF THE

RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT CONDITION OF GERMAN CATHOLICISM,

IS, WITH DEEPEST SENTIMENTS OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR.