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

atoning sacrifice, its importance as the highest act of worship and communion with Christ, and its special blessing to all who w ...

the augsburg confession of 1530. "ART. X. Of the Supper of the Lord they teach that the [true] body and blood of Christ^918 are ...

"V. Now the foundations on which we rest in this controversy with the Sacramentarians are the following, which, moreover, Dr. Lu ...

confirmed in our minds by the sacrament. But in no way does that worthiness depend upon our virtues, or upon our inward or outwa ...

As far as Luther contended for these truths, he was right against the Sacramentarians, though he erred in the form of conception ...

strongly believed, the divinity of Christ, and thus deprive the Lord’s Supper of its deeper significance and power. III. The Cal ...

foolish it is to wish to measure its immensity by our feeble capacity. Therefore, what our mind does not comprehend, let faith c ...

A. No: but as the water, in baptism, is not changed into the blood of Christ, nor becomes the washing away of sins itself, being ...

Friedensburg used much new material preserved in the archives of Hamburg and other cities. Charles G. Albert: The Diet of Speyer ...

At all events, from this time dates the exercise of territorial sovereignty, and the establishment of separate State churches in ...

guaranteed by the Federal Constitution of 1787: it prevents the state from persecuting the church, and the churches from persecu ...

we not lament the fall of Rome, which is the common mother-city of all nations? I indeed feel this calamity no less than if it w ...

Mit einem Anhange ungedruckter Akten und Briefe, Hamburg, 1880. Ranke, III. 102–116. Janssen, III 130–146. Under these discoura ...

and to what extent. It must be supplemented by the more important positive designation Evangelical. The gospel of Christ, as lai ...

the palace and the church of San Petronio broke down, but the Emperor escaped an accident. Clothed in a richly jewelled robe, he ...

IV. Special points. H. Virk: Melanchthon’s Politische Stellung auf dem Reichstag zu Augsburg, in Brieger’s "Zeitschrift für Kirc ...

regarded an idolatrous ceremony. They also declined to obey the Emperor’s prohibition of evangelical preaching during the Diet. ...

Both documents were signed by seven princes; namely, the Elector John of Saxony, Landgrave Philip of Hesse, Margrave George of B ...

a power, Melanchthon kept aloof as far as possible from the Zwinglians and Strassburgers. On the 8th of July he had a personal i ...

of episcopacy, but only on condition of the free preaching of the gospel. He deemed a reconciliation in doctrine impossible, unl ...