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Weisman’s Historia Sacra (2 vols. 4to. 1745, by a disciple of Dr. Spener’s school) is considered by Mr. Conybeare to combine erudition and piety, but it is little known; and being shut up in Latin, it is scarcely popular enough to fill the vacuum. Spanheim’s Ecclesiastical Annals, from the creation of the world to the reformation (contained in the first volume of his works) is a store-house of valuable information. A translation of his own abridgment of this work has been given by the Rev. George Wright. Philip Schaff took up Bridge’s challenge. From 1858 to 1892 he produced an 8-volume work that remains the standard of Church History, and also a 3-volume work (1919 ed., David Schaff), Creeds of Christendom, which likewise remains the standard.