Such are the chief sources in which a student may learn the view taken by the German critics of different schools, concerning the recent church history of their country at various moments of its progress. The fulness of this account will be excused, if it provide information concerning works to which reference is made in the foot-notes of those lectures which treat of this period. In describing the doubts of the present century in France,(57) considerable help has been found in the _Hist. de la Littérature_, &c. written by Nettement,(58) and in the _Essais_ of Damiron,(59) as well as in criticisms by recent French writers; which are cited in the foot-notes to the lecture which treats of the period. The subject of the contemporary doubt in England(60) has been felt to be a delicate one. It has however been thought better to carry the history down to the present time, and to deal frankly in expressing the writer’s own opinion. Delicacy forbade the introduction of the names(61) of writers into the text of this part of the Sermons, but they have been inserted in the foot-notes. The mention of one additional source of information will complete the examination which was proposed. It will be observed, that references have been very frequently given in the notes, to the Reviews, English and French, and occasionally German, for papers which treat on the subjects embraced in the history. When the writer studied the subject for publication, he took care to consult these, as affording a kind of commentary by contemporaries on the different portions of the history. It is hoped that the references to those written in the two former languages will be found to be tolerably complete. The enormous number of those which exist in German, together with the absence for the most part of indexes to them, renders it probable that many separate papers of great value, the special studies by different scholars of passages in the literary history of their own nation, have been left unenumerated. The German literary periodicals are indeed the solitary source of information which the writer considers has not been fully worked for these lectures.(62)