Ecolampadius-Reformation at Basle [pp. 218-236]

2E8olampadius.
Every advance which has been made in enlightening the world,
must be retraced, so that a deeper and deepening darkness may
overspread the nations until the Son of Man come.
ART. II.-(Ecolampadius.-The Reformation at Basle.
(Teolampade le Reformateur de Basle: par J. J. Iferzog,
-Doeteur en Theologie et Professeur a 1' Universite de Halle:
traduit de l'Allemnand par A. -De Maestrel, ministre de
l'eglise libre du Canton de TVaud. Neufchatel, 1849.
THIS is a valuable addition to the biography of the Reformation. It is one of the issues of a book society at Neufchatel,
formed a few years ago, for the purpose of translating and circulating through French Switzerland the choicest productions
of the evangelical writers of Germany. The present volume
purports to be only a translation; but the fact is, that the
materials of the original work have been recast in a French
mould, and under the immediate eye of the biographer himself.
As a native of Basle, Dr. Herzog would naturally feel an interest in her reformer, while his cordial love for the principles of
the Reformation, and the nature of his professional studies
qualify him for the task of writing his history. For ten years
he held the chair of Church History in the Academy of Lausanne; but at the call of God he abandoned his dignified status
and comfortable salary as professor, and cast in his lot with the
demissionary pastors of the Canton de Vaud, who, like their
brethren in Scotland, (though amid severer trials,) gave so
impressive a testimony to the spiritual independence of the
Church of Christ. After his secession from the national establishment, Dr. Herzog superintended the studies of the few
theological students, who adhered to the infant Free Church of
the Canton, until he was called-by the king of Prussia to occupy the position, which he now holds in the University of Halle.
In preparing the present volume, Dr. Herzog first of all
engaged in a thorough study of the various publications of the
Reformer, consisting of translations from the fathers, doctrinal,
liturgical, and expository treatises and,sermons, with a view to
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