...pothesis) while the history most important to the present day, that of the Reformation, is full of such obscurities that we are ignorant of the real n... ...ly be dedicated to an author who has written so much on the history of the Reformation; while at the same time I offer to the character and fidelity o... ...a, like the Guises and Cardinal Granvelle, saw plainly the future that the Reformation was bringing upon Europe. She and they saw monarchies, religion... ...favor in which Catherine is held. The Opposition in France has always been Protestant, because it has had no policy but that of negation; it inherits ... ...that of negation; it inherits the theories of Lutherans, Cal- vinists, and Protestants on the terrible words “liberty,” “tol- erance,” “progress,” and... ...of her posi- tion, he saw with what injustice historians—all influenced by Protestants—had treated this queen. Out of this convic- tion grew the three... ...oolish accusations of treachery launched against her by the writers of the Reformation. This was the great age of that statesmanship the code of which... ...the Guises, solely because the Duchesse d’Etampes supported Calvin and the Protestants. Such was the political education of this queen, who saw in the... ...table. Unfor- tunately, Diane and Montmorency were as vehement against the Protestants as the Guises. There was therefore not the same animosity in th...

... my Sins, and laying hold of a Saviour for Life and Salvation, to a stated Reformation in Practice, and Obedience to all God’s Commands, and this with... ... Subjects, and they were of three different Religions. My Man Friday was a Protestant, his Father was a Pagan and a Cannibal, and the Spaniard was a P...

...ne de Medici; and thus it was to have no future anywhere else, because the Protestant interest was bound up with the prosperity of Queen Elizabeth. Th... ... the degree of the sovereign’s orthodoxy and possible helpful- ness to the Reformation. He should have been the more careful of such an ambiguity of m... ...hing unclean, which lost France, if we are to believe M. Michelet, for the Reformation; a spirit necessarily fatal in the long run to the existence of... ...Queen Mary had condemned female rule in the eyes of Knox, the accession of Protestant Queen Eliza- beth justified it in the eyes of his colleagues. Fe... ...,” but because she represents for the moment the political fu- ture of the Reformation. The exiles troop back to England with songs of praise in their... ..., besides, to assure himself of English support, secret or avowed, for the reformation party in Scotland; a delicate affair, trenching upon treason. A... ...e calls her “his left hand.”** In June 1559, at the headiest moment of the Reformation in Scotland, he writes regretting the absence of his helpful co...

...ny of his notes in the margins. This obscure family of ours was early in the Reformation, and continued Protestants through the reign of Queen Mary, w... ...ins. This obscure family of ours was early in the Reformation, and continued Protestants through the reign of Queen Mary, when they were sometimes in ... ...n the aid of religion, I propos’d to them the proclaiming a fast, to promote reformation, and implore the blessing of Heaven on our undertaking. They ...

...648, was notoriously the last and the decisive conflict between Popery and Protestantism; the result of that war it was which fi- nally enlightened al... ...he were not a Papist, would have given his hopes and his confidence to the Protestant king. 8 Memorials, and Other Papers violated rights of conscien... ...y rate, have made her such; and, had any mode of monastic life existed for Protestants, I believe that she would before this have entered it, supposin... ...le at the first glance? Far from it. Search the Scriptures, was the cry in Protestant lands amongst all people, however much at war with each other. B... ...action, they were systematically depreci- ated by the great leaders of the Protestant Reformation. And yet hardly in a corresponding degree. For there... ...y were systematically depreci- ated by the great leaders of the Protestant Reformation. And yet hardly in a corresponding degree. For there was, after... ... unfitted them for use, had not the Peasants’ War, in the time of Luther’s reformation, little more than one hundred years before, given occasion for ...

...n to the door of the poor man’s cottage and to the gate of the palace; and Protestantism proclaimed that all men are alike able to find the road to he... ...gland, who had quitted their native country because they were “studious of reformation, and entered into covenant to walk with one another according t... ...inly does not prepare them for inequality; but the contrary may be said of Protestantism, which generally tends to make men independent, more than to ... ... any preceding one, Roman Catholics are seen to lapse into infidelity, and Protestants to be converted to Roman Catholicism. If the Roman Catholic fai... ...ir opinions, has great political importance in my eyes. Amongst almost all Protestant na- tions young women are far more the mistresses of their own a... ...an they are in Catholic countries. This indepen- dence is still greater in Protestant countries, like England, which have retained or acquired the rig...

...hereafter, i.e., spoke agreeably to that character. ‘How *A Vindication of Protestant Principles. By Phileleutheros Anglicanus. London: Parker. 1847. ... ...es, purposely left open by the English Thirty-nine Articles (ay, or by any Protestant Confession), to plant nov- elties not less startling to religiou... ... unseasonable, and almost culpable. On such a subject as the Philosophy of Protestantism—‘satius erat silere, quam parcius, dicere.’ Better were absol... ...g pages we propose to vindicate the fundamental and inherent principles of Protestantism.’ Good; but what are the fundamental principles of Protestant... ...e to defend the varieties of doctrine held by the different communities of Protestants.’ Why, no; that would be a sad task for the most skilful of fun... ... whether there is or not; but I am sure there is no Protestant by-road, no Reformation short-cut, to the dem- onstration of Deity. It is true that Phi... ...erman, to a Swiss, or to a Scotsman, that, three thousand years before the Reformation, the author of the Pentateuch was kept from erring by a divine ... ... the authors of 62 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One this Reformation—Luther, suppose, Zwingle, John Knox— either making translations...

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