OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN. BY THE REV. JOHN HOLMES, AUTHOR OF HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE MISSIONS OF THE IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR; AND SOLD AT NO. 97, HATTON-GARDEN, and by PREFACE. THE favorable reception of "Historical Sketches of the Missions of the United Brethren &c." induced several of the Author's friends to propose to him the publication of a History of the Brethren's Church, containing a Narrative of the rise of the Unitas Fratrum in Moravia, its renewal in Saxony, and its gradual extension in other Countries, distinct from the history of its Missions among Heathen nations. Several circumstances entitled the proposal to serious consideration. The success, which God was pleased to grant to the undertakings of the Brethren for propagating the Gospel in pagan countries, was beginning to attract the attention of many, who had hitherto had very imperfect knowledge of their Church; but who seemed desirous of receiving more correct information of a community, whose labours for the conversion of Heathens excited general inSome Works had indeed, at different times, issued from the press, conveying the information that was required; but, being mostly written in German, terest. |