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

Protestants.^960 But the Emperor had promised the Pope to use all his power for the suppression of heresy, and was bound to exec ...

Charles P. Krauth. (See B. M. Schmucker: English Translations of the Augsb. Conf., Philad., 1887, 34 pp.) On the literature comp ...

The Confession is the ripe fruit of a gradual growth. It is based chiefly upon three previous confessional documents—the fifteen ...

faith as laid down in the oecumenical creeds, and condemns (damnamus) the old and new forms of Unitarianism and Arianism as here ...

The doctrine of the second advent and millennium (rejected in Art. XVII.), if we except the dreams of the radical wing of the An ...

followed by the signatures of seven princes and two magistrates. Several manuscript copies omit both preface and epilogue, as no ...

of the whole Christ in either of the substances be admitted.^973 But Article VII., on the Church, is rejected;^974 also Art. XX. ...

The text of the Apology has, like that of the Confession, gone through various transformations, which are used by Bossuet and ot ...

Hence, after the Lutherans had presented their Confession June 25, and Zwingli his own July 8, the four cities handed theirs, Ju ...

and to stir them up against the magistrate; that he had caused greater devastation among them than the Turks, Tartars, and Huns; ...

During the Diet of Augsburg, from April till October, 1530, Luther was an honorable prisoner in the electoral castle of Coburg.^ ...

Joy and grief, life and death, are closely joined in this changing world. On the 5th of June, Luther received the sad news of th ...

ever so great," he wrote to him (June 27), "great also is He who has begun and who conducts it; for it is not our work .... ’Cas ...

the full vigor of manhood,—forty-six years of age,—and at the height of his fame and power. With the Augsburg Confession his wor ...

no man did before or since, three fundamental books of religion,—the Bible, a hymn-book, and a catechism. He forced even his Ger ...

in hell," but also "a poor, miserable, unworthy sinner," to whom "God, the Father of all mercies, has intrusted the gospel of Hi ...

books rush along like thunderstorms or turbid mountain torrents. He knew his violent temper, but never took the trouble to restr ...

church of his day with the kingdom of God on earth, and furnished the program of mediaeval Catholicism, though he has little to ...

his The Mission of the Comforter, 1846 (3d ed. 1876), and afterwards as a separate book shortly before his death, 2d ed. 1855. L ...

"Luther was not only the greatest, but also the most German man of our history; and in his character all the virtues and vices o ...