Transcriber's Notes:
Variations in hyphenation are preserved as in the original. Examples include the following:
| Christ-like | Christlike |
| make-shift | makeshift |
The following corrections have been made to the text:
page 32—people of England is of preëminent[original has preeminent] importance
page 59—feared to violate the immunities of the church."[ending quotation mark is missing in original]
page 188—sent messengers with an imploring petition to their coreligionists[original has correligionists] at London and Halle
page 296—It was an unpardonable offense[original has offence]
page 335—immediate adventism[original has hyphen between words]
page 353—gendered strifes that still delay the reintegration[original has redintegration]
page 427—Requerimiento[original has Requirimiento] of the Spanish, 9.
Footnote 377-1—(American Church History Series,[original has quotation mark] vol. viii.)—also, pp. 219, 220, 389-378—this typographical error has not been corrected