James I. Good’s The Origin of the Reformed Church in Germany begins in 1529 with the Protestation at Speyer and covers the years, events, and people until the Synod of Dort in 1619.
One might naturally suspect that a book on such a subject would, without special effort on the part of the author, be very dull and heavy. On the contrary, this book is fresh and racy. It is indeed historic—ecclesiastically historic, carefully historic—but the facts represent the intense, radical, revolutionary life of the Reformation age.
—The Presbyterian and Reformed Review