History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.
The most cruel of the many persecutions of the innocent Waldenses in the valleys of Piedmont took place in 1655, and shocked by ...
Luther was the most advanced among the Reformers in the ideas of toleration and liberty. He clearly saw the far-reaching effect ...
spreading Zwinglian opinions in Coburg. He regretted the toleration of the Zwinglians in Switzerland after their defeat, which h ...
a warning against the errors of Theobald Thammer, he called the execution of Servetus "a pious and memorable example to all post ...
accept the Lutheran doctrine of the real presence, and the poor fugitives were driven from port to port in cold winter, till at ...
he sacrificed his future reputation to a mistaken sense of duty to the truth and the cause of the Reformation in Switzerland and ...
to Calvin procured from Geneva, and burned in effigy with his last book after his escape. He then rushed blindly into the hands ...
the parable of the tares among the wheat (Matt. 13:29), and Christ’s rebuke of Peter for drawing the sword (Matt. 26:52). The la ...
Romanists used fire and sword; the Episcopalians fines, prisons, pillories, nose-slittings, ear-croppings, and cheek-burnings; t ...
Puritanism ruled England for about twenty years (1640 to 1660), which form the most intensely earnest and excited period in her ...
founder of Congregationalism had taught the primitive Christian principle that the magistrates had no authority over the church ...
blasphemies and heresies," to prevent or reform "all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline," and for this purpose "to ...
Cromwell’s reign was a brief experiment. His son was incompetent to continue it. Puritanism had not won the heart of England, b ...
there is more religious liberty in England than anywhere on the Continent, and as much as in the United States. The last and mo ...
The separation, however, is peaceful, not hostile, as it was in the Ante-Nicene age, when the pagan state persecuted the church. ...
of belief in the orthodox doctrine of the Holy Trinity and condemning the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and the ...
The Scandinavian Reformation followed closely in the path of the Lutheran Reformation of Germany, and extends, likewise, to the ...
The Reformed faith secured a partial success and toleration in Poland, Hungary, Transylvania, Bohemia and Moravia, but suffered ...
All these works pay special attention to the Continental Reformation, but very little to that of England and Scotland. Neander c ...
Charles Beard (Unitarian): The Reformation in its relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge. Hibbert Lectures. London, 1883; 2d e ...
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