History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.

Luther developed this idea in his own way, and modified it in application to the visible church. He started from the article of ...

How far, we must ask here, did Luther recognize the dominion of the papacy as a part of the true catholic church? He did not loo ...

He combined with the boldest independence a strong reverence for the historical faith. He derives from the unbroken tradition of ...

The claims of the Roman Church rest on a broader and more solid base than the papacy, which is merely the form of her government ...

not move me thereto," which was said against the Manichaeans in this sense: Ye are heretics, I do not believe you; I go with the ...

excellentissimi ingenii," although he brought in many useless questions (Bindseil, III. 151; Erl. ed. LXII. 114). He calls Occam ...

through the Church, or prove his extraordinary call by miracles. And so the Augsburg Confession declares that "no man shall publ ...

an irregular or extraordinary bishop and pope in partibus Protestantium, being consulted by princes, magistrates, theologians, a ...

their hearts, and hath put down princes from their thrones" (Luke 1:51, 52) and as St. Peter writes, "Deus superbis resistit" (1 ...

himself alone.^715 Therefore where the worldly government dares to give laws to the soul, it invades the reign of God, and only ...

In his exposition of the First Epistle of St. Peter, from the same year (1523), he thus comments on the exhortation "to fear God ...

Melanchthon: Articuli de quibus egerunt per visitatores in regione Saxoniae. Wittenb., 1527. Reprinted in the Corpus Reform., vo ...

appointed ruler (Rom. 13), to exercise his authority for the protection and promotion of the gospel. Although he is not called t ...

English translation, in Schaff’s Creeds, etc., vol. III. 74–92. The text in the Book of Concord is unreliable, and should be com ...

The first Protestant catechisms were prepared by Lonicer (1523), Melanchthon (1524), Brentius (1527), Althamer, Lachmann (1528), ...

enumerate, or not to enumerate such as he wishes."^734 The practice of private confession is still retained in some sections, bu ...

the Presbyterian churches in Scotland, England, and America. They follow these various churches to all their missionary fields i ...

We should so fear and love God as not to curse, swear, conjure, lie, or deceive, by his name; but call upon it in every time of ...

God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. CHAPT ...

old, and the introduction of the new, faith.^739 But, human sin and imperfection enter into all great movements of history. Wher ...