of the ENGLISH REFORMERS: William Tyndale, and John Frith. edited by THOMAS RUSSELL, A.M. ̓Ανθρώποις παραδεδωxόσι τἀς ψυχἀς αύτῶν ύπἐρ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῠ IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. PRINTED FOR EBENEZER PALMER, 18, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. MDCCCXXXI. ADVERTISEMENT. It was the Publisher's design, when he commenced this work, to have carried it to a much larger extent, and to have comprised the writings of all the most eminent English and Scottish Reformers, and considerable expense was incurred in the preparation for that end. There appeared little doubt of the undertaking receiving that share of patronage which would have encouraged him to accomplish it, and it is a circumstance he could not have foreseen which compels him to abandon the ground he first occupied to another party. He alludes to the inroads now being made in the publishing business by the Religious Tract Society. For the Committee and Trustees of that Society he has the greatest esteem, and he considers many of the tracts published by that Society doubtless to have been the means of much usefulness, but he never can consider that they are pursuing their own proper course while they deviate to that which is an invasion of trade. Much is just now argued against monopoly, and most of these arguments will bear hard upon the present proceedings of that valuable Institution. The Publisher's object, however, in introducing this subject is only to account for the abandonment of his original design. The Religious Tract Society commenced |