Excerpt from The Age of Revolution: Being an Outline of the History of the Church From 1648 to 1815 N this volume I have restricted my work to the history of those religious bodies which believe episcopacy to be of the esse of the Church and which claim to have, and appear to me to have, preserved the succession of bishops according to the ancient rule. But the history is avowedly only a sketch, and there is much that is left out that might well be told in a history which dealt with the Church in another aspect as well as on another scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.