History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.
The Emperor, a stranger to German thought and speech,^367 declared after the first hearing: "This man will never make a heretic ...
The strongest sympathizers with Luther were outside of the Diet, among the common people, the patriotic nobles, the scholars of ...
proofs, in an essay, Die Glaubwürdigkeit des Lutherwortes in Worms, in the "Studien und Kritiken" for 1876, No. II. pp. 295–306. ...
When tradition becomes a wall against freedom, when authority degenerates into tyranny, the very blessing is turned into a curse ...
Luther did not appeal to his conscience alone, but first and last to the Scripture as he understood it after the most earnest st ...
These men were just as honest as Luther, but they occupied the standpoint of the mediaeval Church, and could not appreciate his ...
Charles rendered to the Reformation, and the best thing, in a moral point of view, he ever did.^384 Unfortunately, he diminished ...
will be the Holy See and all Christendom, and will thank God for such a good, holy, and religious Emperor."^389 The edict is not ...
chaplain and private counselor, described him in a letter to Zwingli, Aug. 4, 1521, as a promoter of "the gospel," who would not ...
Roman historians, in denouncing his polemics, are apt to forget the fearful severity of the papal bull, the edict of Worms, and ...
you," he exclaims, "ye unclean hogs, away from the pure fountains! Away with you, wicked traffickers, from the sanctuary! Touch ...
Here is a specimen: A fat and drunken monk knocks at the gate, and is angry that he is not at once admitted; Peter tells him fir ...
and assailed his cause in a poetical satire: "Vom grossen lutherischen Narren wie ihn Doctor Murner beschworen hat, 1522."^404 C ...
Before Luther entered upon the new phase in his career, he had a short rest on what he called his "Patmos" (Rev. 1:9), and his " ...
amidst cursing and swearing, pulled him out, put him on horseback, hurried away with him in full speed, and brought him about mi ...
Considering that he there translated the New Testament, it was the most useful year of his life. He gives a full description of ...
and saving work he foresaw, he rose in rebellion against it. He commands an organized army of fallen angels and bad men in const ...
and fall into the serious error of giving me too much credit, as if I were absorbed in God’s cause. This high opinion of yours c ...
stood up against the Pope, why should I yield to his creature?" At the same time he addressed a sharp letter to the archbishop ( ...
house. If he had done nothing else, he would be one of the greatest benefactors of the German-speaking race.^419 His version was ...
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