History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.
Unfortunately, Hutten lacked moral purity, depth, and weight. He was Frank, brave, and bold, but full of conceit, a restless adv ...
sent him first to the hot bath of Pfeffers, and then to a quiet retreat on the island of Ufnau in the Lake of Zürich, under medi ...
Melanchthon laid down the far-reaching principle that the Scriptures are the supreme rule of faith, and that we must not explain ...
"The time for silence is gone, and the time for speaking has come." With these words (based on Eccles. 3:7) of the dedicatory pr ...
episcopal power assumed by the magistrate, and the avarice of princes in the misappropriation of ecclesiastical property. The pr ...
and the book "Of the Soul" (which teaches that the soul dies with the body) ought to be banished, and the study of the languages ...
us kiss his feet: whereas if any one wished to do so, he ought to do his utmost to prevent them, as St. Paul and Barnabas would ...
Romanique Pontificis), expressing a wish that the Emperor, kings, and princes would make a bloody end to Pope and cardinals and ...
of their idol, I became convinced that the papacy is the kingdom of Babylon and the power of Nimrod the mighty hunter. Now a lea ...
are so mingled in red-hot iron, that in every part of it are both fire and iron. Why may not the glorious body of Christ much mo ...
dipping into water whence it takes its name. For, in Greek to baptize signifies to dip, and baptism is a dipping." "Baptism sign ...
Non arripit mortalia Qui regna dat coelestia.’ " § 46. Christian Freedom.—Luther’s Last Letter to the Pope. October, 1520. Von d ...
tree bring forth good fruit" (Matt. 7:18). The fruit does not bear the tree, nor does the tree grow on the fruit; but the tree b ...
of his age, during which he composed it, in the full possession of the positive truth and peace of the religion of Christ.^246 L ...
"Oh, would that, having laid aside that glory which your most abandoned enemies declare to be yours, you were living rather in t ...
§ 47. The bull of Excommunication. June 15, 1520. The bull "Exurge, Domine," in the Bullarium Romanum, ed. CAR. Cocquelines, Tom ...
The bull of excommunication is the papal counter-manifesto to Luther’s Theses, and condemns in him the whole cause of the Protes ...
Germany, was a great mistake of the Pope, as Roman historians admit, and it helped the cause of the Reformation.^251 The bull wa ...
and that the church was crowded whenever Luther preached. A few weeks afterward the Pope’s bull was burnt. NOTES.—THE BULL OF EX ...
hominis, aut quod pejus est, diaboli. Exurgat, inquam, praefata Ecclesia sancta Dei, et una cum beatissimis Apostolis praefatis^ ...
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