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Excerpt from A Key to the Knowledge of Church History: Modern Attempts of a more or less legitimate nature had been made during the course of the middle ages to secure the desired re forms; but, at the beginning of the sixteenth cen tury, these efforts had as yet been unsuccessful: and we have now to consider somewhat in detail what were the hindrances which opposed the advance Of the Reformation movement, at once modifying and shaping its course, as well as what were the provoking causes which urged it onwards in the different countries through which it spread. 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.