This Volume contains 7 books:
1. Progress from the First to the Fourteenth Century.
2. Wickliffe and his Times.
3. John Huss and the Hussite Wars.
4. The Opening of the Sixteenth Century.
5. Germany to the Leipsic Disputation, 1519.
6 ...to the Diet at Worms, 1521.
7. England, From the Times of Wickliffe to Henry VIII.

James A. Wylie brings the principle that is Protestantism nearer in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ to its beginning. Church government revealed in the pages of scripture was local in nature; we read of “the church at” this town or that, with a bishop, pastors, and elders over the local flock, with Christ the Head over all – the universal mediator between God and man.

When one bishop at Rome claimed the power of Bishop of bishops, usurping the place of Christ to himself and using the power of the civil government to enforce that position, even upon the pain of death, then began in earnest the 1,260 year reign of “the man of sin” seated in the temple of God, the church, taking the place of God in the hearts and minds of the visible church on earth, introducing the abomination of her fornication with the kings of the earth to the world; the great apostasy.

Hope! That’s what we should find in the pages of this history. History is Prophecy fulfilled. Our faith is not blind, nor is it in vain, we have seen that God’s word is good!