... So far from complying with this their inclination, by which all hopes of reformation would have been abolished, and even the gate shut against her i... ... mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church o... ... he was so bitter as Thwackum; for he always expressed some hopes of Tom’s reformation; “which,” he said, “the unparalleled goodness shown by his uncl... ...r adversary; or, as the phrase is, making themselves his match. But such reformations are rather to be wished than hoped for: I shall content myself... ...liquely in the pulpit: which had not, indeed, the good effect of working a reformation in the squire himself; yet it so far operated on his conscience... ...nd was a hearty well wisher to the glorious cause of lib erty, and of the Protestant religion. It is no wonder, there fore, that in circumstances wh... ... sistent such behaviour is in men who are going to fight in defence of the Protestant religion.” Mr. Adderly, which was the name of the other ensign... ...ough I love my king and country, I hope, as well as any man in it, yet the Protestant interest is no small motive to my becoming a volunteer in the ca... ...ect to be any gainers by the change; for that Prince Charles was as good a Protestant as any in England; and that nothing but regard to right made him...

...ott of Leicester Abbey that “he was come to lay his bones among them,” the reformation in Religion and the King’s riding through the streets of London... ... pest of society, Elizabeth. Many were the people who fell martyrs to the protestant Reli- gion during her reign; I suppose not fewer than a dozen. S... ... could you Reader have beleived it possible that some hardened and zealous Protestants have even abused her for that steadfastness in the Catholic Rel... ... reign the roman Catholics of England did not behave like Gentlemen to the protestants. Their Behaviour indeed to the Royal Family and both Houses of...

...s had once been the refectory of a small priory, or cell, broken up at the Reformation. Of furniture there was not much, only an open cupboard, displa... ..., if he and his wife were to bring up the child, she should be made a good Protestant Christian before they left the house, and there should be no mor... ...een’s Scottish secretary, recently taken into her service. Both these were Protestants, and, like the Bridgefield family, attended service in the cast... ...f being in Holy Orders conferred abroad, she had her fears for her child’s Protestant principles. The book, however, proved to be a translation of St.... ... with which my good Mr. Belton favours me, I take care to have nothing you Protestants dispute when I know it.” She added, smiling, “Heaven knows that... ...me of Cicely had been given, and whether the child had been so baptized by Protestant rites. “Wot you who the maid may be, madam?” Susan took courage ... ...hard Tal- bot had foreboded, done little but add to his detestation of the Reformation, and he had since fallen in with several of the seminary priest... ... oblivious that these desecra- tions had been quite as shocking before the Reformation. “All will soon be changed, however,” he added. “Sir Thomas Gre...

...ead-bor- ough of the place, and a steady friend to Queen Elizabeth and the Protestant religion, was at one time inclined to suspect his guest of being... ...honour of his return, and, as he verily hoped, of 21 Sir Walter Scott his reformation. The stranger at first shook his head, as if declining the cour... ...Abingdon. But since that, T ony married a pure precisian, and is as good a Protestant, I warrant you, as the best.” “And looks grave, and holds his he... ...He was one of Queen Mary’s Papists, and now he is one of Queen Elizabeth’s Protestants; he was an onhanger of the Abbot of Abingdon; and now he lives ... ...ot out of the church plate, which was hidden in the old Manor-house at the Reformation. Rich, however, he is, and God and his conscience, with the dev... ...By the holy Cross of Abingdon,” exclaimed Anthony Fos- ter, forgetting his Protestantism in his alarm, “I am a ruined man!” So saying, he rushed into ... ...es and divines—and will you, whom men call the standard-bearer of the true Protestant faith, be contented to wear the emblem and mark of such a Romish...

...dd, ’ or timber Virgin, who could natu- rally swim. (Knox’s History of the Reformation, b. i.) So, ye of Chateau-Vieux, tug patiently, not without hop... ...e, would not specially give heed: to troubles of Uzez, troubles of Nismes, Protestant and Catholic, Pa- triot and Aristocrat; to troubles of Marseille... ... the religious string: “True Priests maltreated, false Priests in- truded, Protestants (once dragooned) now triumphing, things sacred given to the dog...

...utenant and ritt-master, under that invincible monarch, the bulwark of the Protestant faith, the Lion of the North, the terror of Austria, Gustavus th... ...t leader, captain, and king, the Lion of the North, and the bulwark of the Protestant faith, had a way of winning battles, taking towns, over-running ... ...rsuasion to act as my adviser. I found, in short, that although my being a Protestant might be winked at, in re- spect that I was a man of action, and... ...to become of me, if Gustavus, the name- sake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands!” “Have no fea... ...pray you, the order of that great Prince, whose memory is so dear to every Protestant bosom?” “Sir, the drums beat to prayers morning and evening, as ... ...lice in 1589; and such the state of Scotland nearly thirty years after the Reformation. V. NOTES. Note I.—Fides et Fiducia Sunt Relativa. The military...

...ustice and necessity would have been as difficult as to convert her to the Protestant faith. I therefore assured her my intention, if I could get a su... ...urch was used as the parish church of the Canongate from the period of the Reformation, until James II. claimed it for his chapel royal, and had it fi...

...................................68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOH... .... How was this? Why could not Dante’ s Catholicism continue; but Luther’ s Protestantism must needs follow? Alas, nothing will continue. I do not make... ...ccredited by Koreishes or Conclaves, be intolerable and detestable to him. Protestantism, too, is the work of a Prophet: the prophet-work of that sixt... ...shall be true, and authentically divine! At first view it might seem as if Protestantism were entirely destructive to this that we call Hero-worship, ... ...ble good, religious or social, for man- kind. One often hears it said that Protestantism introduced a 106 Thomas Carlyle new era, radically different... ...ence- forth an impossibility? So we hear it said.—Now I need not deny that Protestantism was a revolt against spiritual sover- eignties, Popes and muc... ...at epoch of the world. There is nothing generically new or peculiar in the Reformation; it was a re- turn to Truth and Reality in opposition to Falseh... ...- can, that first kindled the wrath of Luther, and produced the Protestant Reformation. We will say to the people who main- tain it, if indeed any suc... ...no man’s sins could be pardoned by them. It was the beginning of the whole Reformation. We know how it went; forward from this first public challenge ...

......... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM................................................

...many, the great leader of the mighty change in England which is called The Reformation, and which set the people free from their sla very to the prie... ...he must beg to keep it safe. At last Cromwell represented that there was a Protestant Princess in Germany—those who held the reformed religion were ca... ...stant Princess in Germany—those who held the reformed religion were called Protestants, because their leaders had Protested against the abuses and imp... ...at one time, and causing to be drawn to the fire on the same hurdles, some Protestant prisoners for denying the Pope’s doctrines, and some Roman Catho... ...s over. There was a lady, Anne Askew, in Lincolnshire, who inclined to the Protestant opinions, and whose husband being a fierce Catholic, turned her ... ...the thirty eighth of his reign. Henry the Eighth has been favoured by some Protestant writers, because the Reformation was achieved in his time. But t... ...Henry the Eighth has been favoured by some Protestant writers, because the Reformation was achieved in his time. But the mighty merit of it lies with ... ... to allow some rather tiresome public speakers to get up into this Tree of Reformation, and point out their errors to them, in long dis courses, whil... ...he people. Nine of them were hanged upon nine green branches of the Oak of Reformation; and so, for the time, that tree may be said to have withered a...

...art; if upon art and science, then upon every branch of social economy his reformations and advances are equally due—due as to all, if due as to any. ... ...ing such a change, no memory with which I could more willingly connect any reformation, than thine, dear, noble Antigone! Accordingly, because a certa... ...and printed, ‘No Popery,’ as also the following trai- torous couplet— ‘The Protestants want Talbot, As the Papists have got all but;’ Meaning ‘all but... ... design- ing to dazzle the eyes of the unwary, &c.; he found in short that reformation, by popular insurrection, must end in the destruction and canno... ...spirit of the context suffi- ciently explained to them that it was used by protestants as a term of reproach, and indicated a faith that was an errone...

...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 ...

...the stuff about the cunning of the Jesuits that once circu- lated in ultra-Protestant circles in England. Elderly Protes- tant ladies used to look und... ...an, and he was glorified by the German Schiller. No doubt the Protes- tant reformation was largely a business of dukes and princes, but the underlying...

............................................................. 50 Siegfried as Protestant.................................................................... ...rical design of The Rhine Gold, The Valkyries, and Siegfried. Siegfried as Protestant THE PHILOSOPHICALLY FERTILE element in the original project of S... ...tworthy interpreter of God and revelation than the Church. This was called Protestant- ism; and though the Protestants were not strong enough for thei... ... has justified the direction it took. Nowadays the supernatural element in Protestantism has perished; and if every man’s private judgment is still to... ... is not a more extreme proposition than the old one about the will of God) Protestantism must take a fresh step in advance, and become Anarchism. Whic... ...ity of his prodigious artistic power by the first fierce attack of the New Reformation, gave no quarter to the antagonist of his hero. His Wotan, whom...

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...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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...ar 1547. The changes in his time are generally called the beginning of the Reformation. CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXVIII CH... ...and fancied they could do without bishops. This great break was called the Reformation, because it professed to set matters of religion to rights; and... ...rs of religion to rights; and in Germany the re- formers called themselves Protestants, because they protested some of the teachings of the Church of ... ... been in Germany, and had made friends with some of these German and Swiss Protestants, and he invited them to England to consult and help him and his... ...his crown away from his sister Mary to Lady Jane, who would go on with the Reformation, while Mary would try to over- throw it. In truth, young Edward... ...een Mary of Scot- land, wife to the French dauphin. All who wished for the Reformation, and dreaded Mary’s persecutions had hoped to see Elizabeth que... ...at Mary had done; the people who had gone into exile returned, and all the Protestants abroad reckoned her as on their side. But, on the other hand, t... ...er enemies all the rest of their lives. His subjects in Holland had become Protestants, and he perse- cuted them so harshly that they broke away from ... ...es I. did that pleased his people, and that was sending help to the French Protestants, who were hav- ing their town of Rochelle besieged. But the Eng...

...ngs and confessions and vigils. But Luther delivered us from all that. His reformation was a triumph of imagina- 19 Preface to Androcles and the Lion... ...nd does not even know that it was written in Latin. If you press an Ulster Protestant as to why he regards Newton as an infallible authority, and St. ... ...darker after his death until the darkness, after a brief false dawn in the Reformation and the Renascence, culminated in the commercial night of the n... ...ly Jesuist side of it. He would have been quite in his place in any modern Protestant State; and he, not Jesus, is the true head and founder of our Re... ... and elsewhere, the Inquisition, the “wars of religion” which followed the Reformation, all presented them- selves as Christian phenomena; but who can... ...moral force from his credit, and so had to keep his gospel alive. When the Protestants translated the Bible into the vernacular and let it loose among... ...he Pentateuch as Pascal wrote his Thoughts or D’Aubigny his History of the Reformation, or that St. Jerome wrote the passage about the three witnesses... ...onizers pro- ceeded on the assumption that their business was to establish Protestantism as well as to make money and thereby secure at least the live...

...essons a continued and progressive instruction in religion. But the Church-Protestantism imparted to us was, properly speaking, nothing but a kind of ... ..., have been much indebted to him: he pub- lished remarks on the so-called “Reformation of Frankfort,” a work in which the statutes of the state are co... ...ible to a child, and accustomed myself to reciting them in the tone of the Protestant preachers. The versified French comedy was then much in vogue: t... ... love of her, and had soon traced out where she sat. Thus, during the long Protestant service, I gazed my fill at her. When the congregation left the ... ...a very uncertain foot- ing, there could be no dispute but that, within the Protestant part of Germany and of Switzerland, what is generally called com... ...at- ter only the more happily and splendidly. The Prussians, and with them Protestant Germany, acquired thus for their literature a treasure which the...

...eet with yet) could, in the name of the Clergy, insist on having the Anti- protestant laws, which condemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ ... ..., has got her Turgot made Control- ler-General; and there shall be endless reformation. Unhappily this Turgot could continue only twenty months. With ... ...fectibility say what it will, discontents cannot be wanting: your promised Reformation is so indispensable; yet it comes not; who will begin it—with h... ...rs, to have it thought great; now, in the Clergy’s name, demanding to have Protestant death- penalties ‘put in execution;’ no flaunting it in the Oeil... ... Philosophes, let a liberal Edict walk in front of it, for emancipation of Protestants; let a liberal Promise guard the rear of it, that when our Loan... ...at final 1792, the States-General shall be convoked. Such liberal Edict of Protestant Emancipation, the time hav- ing come for it, shall cost a Lomeni... ...onial words, the purpose of the royal breast is signified:—Two Edicts, for Protestant Emanci- pation, for Successive Loan: of both which Edicts our t... ...redd, ’ or timber Virgin, who could naturally swim. (Knox’s History of the Reformation, b. i.) So, ye of Chateau- Vieux, tug patiently, not without ho...

...upon every branch of social economy, upon every organ of civilization, his reformations and advances are equally due; due as to all, if due as to any.... ...s of this kind are universal and endless. No land, the most austere in its Protestantism, but has adopted these superstitions: and everywhere by those... ... their arms, solemnly stepped on shore from the vessels of Christendom. We Protestants know better: we understand the impossibil- ity of supposing suc... ...—not, indeed, as to its spirit, but as to its form and local connections—a Protestant di- vine of much merit, and chiefly in what regards practice, an... ...site feelings. But there was another simultaneous omen, which affected the Protestant enthusiasts, and the superstitious, whether Catholic or Prot- es...

...ohann Fischart, a native of Mainz or Strasburg, who died in 1614. He was a Protestant controversialist, and a satirist of fantastic and abundant imagi... ...d possi- bly have interfered. In the remainder the sentiment is distinctly Protestant. Rabelais was much struck by the vices of the clergy and did not... ...he was not favourable to a political reform. Those who would make of him a Protestant altogether forget that the Protestants of his time were not for ... ...w he was to be regarded. Rabelais belonged to what may be called the early reformation, to that band of honest men in the beginning of the sixteenth c... ...belais printed in Switzerland, which would certainly have happened had the Protestants looked on him as one of themselves. That Rabelais collected the... ...s T urquet and his son Theodore belonged, both well-known, and both strong Protestants. The obscurity relating to this matter is far from being cleare... ...tes. Beda de optimitate triparum. The Complaint of the Barristers upon the Reformation of Comfits. The Furred Cat of the Solicitors and Attorneys. Of ...

...meet with yet) could, in the name of the Clergy, insist on having the Anti-protestant laws, which condemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ ... ..., has got her Turgot made Con- troller-General; and there shall be endless reformation. Unhappily this Turgot could continue only twenty months. With ... ...ctibility say what it will, discontents cannot be wanting: your prom- ised Reformation is so indispensable; yet it comes not; who will begin it—with h... ...rs, to have it thought great; now, in the Clergy’s name, demanding to have Protestant death-penalties ‘put in ex- 71 Thomas Carlyle ecution;’ no flau... ...at final 1792, the States-General shall be convoked. Such liberal Edict of Protestant Emancipation, the time having come for it, shall cost a Lomenie ... ...onial words, the purpose of the royal breast is signified:—Two Edicts, for Protestant Eman- cipation, for Successive Loan: of both which Edicts our t... ...arlyle The Parlement will nowise acquiesce meekly; and set to register the Protestant Edict, and do its other work, in salutary fear of these three Le...

... St. Mary, Winchester, though the masses ceased to be celebrated after the Reformation. In those days the rector of Hursley was John de Ralegh, probab... ...ER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III REFORMA REFORMA REFORMA REFORMA REFORMATION TION TION TION TION TIMES TIMES TIMES TIMES TIMES THE RECTORIAL... ...his abode there. He seems to have been a shrewd, active man, and a staunch Protestant, for when there was a desire to lease out Cranbury, he, as Lord ... ...bury, he, as Lord of the Manor, stipulated that it should be let only to a Protestant of the Church of England, not to a Papist. The neighbourhood of ...

... girdle of a superstition. A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation. How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of t... ...f the Temple, the Advent of Christ, Dark Ages, the Revival of Letters, the Reformation, the discovery of new lands, the open- ing of new sciences and ... ..., the porter? Broader and deeper we must write our annals,—from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,—if w... ...the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quak- erism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolitio... ...ust not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...

...pring, or taste of any fruit of the autumn, would not have a better measure of time than the Romans had before the reformation of their calendar by Ju... ...well of, be a ground of as- sent, men have reason to be Heathens in Japan, Mahometans in Turkey, Papists in Spain, Protestants in England, and Luthera...

...ion was made by the better informed among the French between Calvinism and Protestantism or 5 The Chaplet of Pearls Lutheranism, in which they includ... ...that the reverent gestures that came naturally to him were regarded by the Protestants as idolatry, and that he would be viewed as a recreants from hi... ... turned suddenly and said, ‘But I forget, Monsieur is a Huguenot?’ ‘I am a Protestant of the English Church,’ said Berenger, rather stiffly, in the fo... ...rship viewed by both Walsingham and Sidney as a model to which the English Protestants ought to be brought. However, Sidney excused all this as more b... ... Admiral was greatly rejoiced that the Nid de Merle estates should go into Protestant hands, and that the old gentleman lost no opportunity of impress... ...—one, he believed, the Bible. ‘Yes, sir, the Vulgate—a copy older than the Reformation, so not liable to be called an heretical version,’ said Berenge...

...cceeds him. — Troubles in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is c... ...great or remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an important share. All the events of this period, if t... ...hiller clusively, the whole of its immense political power. In France, the Reformation had en- kindled a civil war which, under four stormy reigns, sh... ...a century rendered it the scene of the most mournful disorders. It was the Reformation, too, that rendered the Span- ish yoke intolerable to the Flemi... ...ened Elizabeth, were mainly intended in revenge for her hav- ing taken his Protestant subjects under her protection, and placing herself at the head o... ...e threw up a firm barrier against po- litical oppression. It was, too, the Reformation principally that first drew the northern pow- ers, Denmark and ... ...Sweden, into the political system of Europe; and while on the one hand the Protestant League was strengthened by their adhesion, it on the other was i... ... of success, made an attempt on the inde- pendence of the German States, a Protestant league would scarcely have rushed to arms in defence of freedom ... ...he possession of the imperial throne — a dignity it was impos- sible for a Protestant to hold, (for with what con- sistency could an apostate from the...

...; and the facts set down above were one and all collected from the lips of Protestants who had opposed the father in his life. Yet I am strangely dece... ..., no doubt at all he was a ‘coarse, headstrong’ fisherman! Yet even in our Protestant Bibles Peter is called Saint. Damien was dirty. He was. Think of... ...E IN THEIR OWN INOCENT SELF DEFENCE AND DEFFENCE OF THE COVENANTED WORK OF REFORMATION BY THOMAS DALZEEL OF BINS UPON THE 28 OF NOVEMBER 1666. REV. 12... ... signed. In that vault, as the story goes, John Knox took hid- ing in some Reformation broil. From that window Burke the murderer looked out many a ti...

..., accept social changes to-day as tamely as their forefathers accepted the Reformation under Henry and Edward, the Restoration under Mary, and, after ... ...he XVI century came, and the Church was reformed in several countries, the Reformation was so largely a rebellion against sacerdotalism that marriage ... ...wn on the scrap-heap with the sale of Indulgences and the like; and so the Reformation left marriage where it was: a curious mixture of commercial sex... ...ndent of women. We also have to bring ourselves into line with the rest of Protestant civilization by providing means for dis- solving all unhappy, im...

...aterial things and upon the senses and the hands was still mighty. (b) The Protestant revolt brought with it an immense increase of interest in theolo... ...l individualism after the sixteenth cen- tury, and with the development of Protestantism, the times were ripe for an emphasis upon the rights and duti... ...uch practi- cal changes cannot take place without demanding an educational reformation to meet them, and without lead- ing men to ask what ideas and i...

...lf to be talked to by Mr. Brooke, who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not, that he himself was a Pro... ...he Reformation either meant something or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing... .... Casaubon’s feet, and kissing his unfashionable shoe-ties as if he were a Protestant Pope. She was not in the least teaching Mr. Casaubon to ask if h... ...irl who had been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of the hand- screen sort; a girl wh...