Selections of little-known documents to accompany the central statements of the reformers; each selection is prefaced by the editor with remarks and an introd. to the whole volume.

Bibliography: pages 177-178.

The praise of folly ; The enchiridion / Desiderius Erasmus -- Letter to Elector Frederick of Saxony / Ulrich von Hutten -- Preface to the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans ; Ninety-five theses, or, Disputation on the power and efficacy of indulgences ; An appeal to the ruling class of German nationality as to the amelioration of the state of Christendom ; Treatise on Christian liberty / Martin Luther -- Funeral oration over Luther / Philip Melanchthon -- The first Zurich disputation, and The sixty-seven articles / Ulrich Zwingli -- The Schleitheim confession of faith / Michael Sattler --The trial and martyrdom of Michael Sattler / from Martyr's Mirror, Rottenburg, 1527 -- On the errors of the trinity / Michael Servetus -- Concerning heretics / Sebastian Castellio -- Conversion and call to Geneva / John Calvin -- The Geneva confession / William Farel and John Calvin -- Ecclesiastical ordinances, 1541 ; The institutes ; Letter to the five prisoners of Lyons / John Calvin -- A supplication of beggars / Simon Fish -- The restraint of appeals to Rome, 1533 / Thomas Cromwell -- Exhortation to unity and obedience / Thomas Starkey -- The six articles, 1539 / King Henry VIII --Preface to the Bible / Thomas Cranmer -- A certain communication / Lady Jane Grey -- The act of supremacy, 1559 ; The act of uniformity, 1559 / Elizabethan settlement.