Excerpt from General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Vol. 9: Translated From the German of Dr. Augustus Neander
On me, after the death of my much-loved teacher and paternal friend, was devolved the task of preparing for the press the last greater work of the lamented Neander, the sixth volume of his church history. Having discharged this no less honourable than arduous duty, I now think it due to the respected reader that I should give some brief account of the method according to which I have proceeded.
In the abstract, two possible ways indeed presented themselves in which this volume might be prepared for the public eye: either to follow out the subject, in accordance with the plan and preparatory labours of Neander down to the point of time he originally proposed to himself - the commencement of the Reformation - or to publish it in the fragmentary shape in which it was left. Pious regard to the style of a work peculiarly original in its kind, and the design of Neander, expressed shortly before his death, of publishing a part of the materials here presented, equally forbade the former of these methods. And yet in adopting the latter plan, liberty was still left to the editor of executing his task in very different ways.
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