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

The Wittenbergers, as already remarked, would have nothing to do with political alliances unless it were an alliance against for ...

he shook his hand, and said, smiling, and pointing his finger at him, "You are a good-for-nothing knave."^858 In that romantic o ...

prejudiced, he is reported to have yielded the main point of dispute, as regards the literal interpretation of "This is my body, ...

John Feige, the chancellor of the Landgrave, exhorted the theologians in an introductory address to seek only the glory of Chris ...

"Do not boast so much. You are in Hesse, not in Switzerland. In this country we do not break people’s necks. Spare such proud, d ...

At this point both parties mellowed down. Luther begged pardon for his harsh words, as he was a man of flesh and blood. Zwingli ...

to-morrow we shall break up, and proceed to Schleitz in the Voigtland whither his Electoral Grace has ordered us. "Tell Herr Pom ...

The Landgrave urged the insertion that each party should show Christian charity to the other. The Lutherans assented to this onl ...

than the subtle interpretations of men. He desired Zwingli to remove to Marburg, and take charge of the ecclesiastical organizat ...

bears the title, Paraenesis votiva pro Pace Ecclesiae ad Theologos Augustanae Confessionis, Auctore Ruperto Meldenio Theologo, 6 ...

consent of orthodox Christendom; (3) the specific and controverted dogmas of the several confessions. He concludes the discussio ...

at times under the rocks of its bed, and re-appears deeper down in the valley, so these long-buried principles of peace have rea ...

the Sacramentarians.^883 These provocations and vexations, in connection with sickness and old age, combined to increase his irr ...

This attitude Luther retained to the end. It is difficult to say whom he hated most, the papists or the Sacramentarians. On the ...

But it is gratifying to know that Luther never said one unkind word of Calvin, who was twenty-five years younger. He never saw h ...

of the last attack of Luther, he wrote a noble letter to Bullinger, Nov. 25, 1544, in which he says:^904 — "I hear that Luther h ...

Luther, and a little more Christian charity and liberality in Zwingli. This difference is characteristic of the Reformers and of ...

Zwingli was clear-headed, self-possessed, jejune, and sober (even in his radical departures from Rome), and farther removed from ...

We may quote here a well-considered judgment of Dr. Dorner, one of the ablest and profoundest evangelical divines of Germany, wh ...

so skillfully that the giant fell prostrate on the ground. Therefore let us never cease to sing with joy: ’Saul has slain his th ...