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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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... 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 ...

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...emselves with speculation at all. From the days of Hypatia to those of the Reformation, the illustrious Heloisa is almost the only woman to whom any s... ...o find itself disputed, the influence of priests over women is attacked by Protestant and Liberal writers, less for being bad in itself, than because ...

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... 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;...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...ARACTERISTICS Aes- thetic elements in religion—Contrast of Catholicism and Protestantism— Sacrifice and Confession— Prayer— Religion holds that spirit... ...e, so crudely is it often employed, of the famous Catholic taunt, that the Reformation may be best understood by remem- bering that its fons et origo ... ...religion is one of union with the divine. The heretics who went before the reformation are lavishly accused by the church writers of antinomian practi... ...omish Church such characters find a more congenial soil to grow in than in Protestantism, whose fashions of feeling have been set by minds of a decid-... ...ing have been set by minds of a decid- edly pessimistic order. But even in Protestantism they have been abundant enough; and in its recent “liberal” d... ...hed early in the nineteenth century, shows how far the muse of evangelical protestantism in England, with her mind fixed on the idea of danger, had at... ...unite healthy- mindedness with readiness for regeneration by let- ting go. Protestantism has been too pessimistic as [56] Edwards, from whose book on ...

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...; 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...

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...the reigns of John and his incapable successor. The troubled period of the Reformation also produced sev eral eminent hereditary monarchs—Elizabeth, ... ...ent education, but perhaps the safety of the government itself. An English Protestant would not be easily induced, by disclaimers of proselytism, to p... ...atholics will not send their children to schools in which they can be made Protestants; and we expect that Hindoos, who believe that the privileges of...

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... may be thrown back for centuries. T o speak only of religious opinions: the Reformation broke out at least twenty times before Luther, and was put do... ...isted in, it was successful. In Spain, Italy, Flanders, the Austrian empire, Protestantism was rooted out; and, most likely, would have been so in Eng... ...xample in the condition of Europe during the times immediately following the Reformation; another, though limited to the Continent and to a more cul ... ... the intellect and judgment of mankind ought to be cultivated, a thing which Protestants at least do not deny, on what can these faculties be more app... ... make a clever nisi prius advocate of a cause. But in countries pro fessing Protestantism, this resource is denied; since Protestants hold, at least ... ...f the first five centuries, and though not implicitly adopted by moderns and Protestants, has been much less modified by them than might have been exp... ... as not only irreligious, but unchaste, indecent, gross, disgusting. What do Protestants think of these perfectly sincere feelings, On Liberty — Mill...

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..., 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...

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...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 unfash ionable shoe ties as if he were a Protestant Pope. She was not in the least teaching Mr. Casaubon to ask if h... ...rld, or even their own actions?—For example, that Henry of Navarre, when a Protestant baby, little thought of being a Catholic monarch; or that Alfred... ...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 whos...

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...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...

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...which followed their success against the Persian arms, to establish such a reformation. Instead of this obvious policy, Athens and Sparta, inflated wi... ...and bloody contests, may be said, in fact, to have severed the league. The Protestant and Catholic cantons have since had their separate diets, where ... ...duced opposite alliances with foreign powers: of Berne, at the head of the Protestant association, with the United Provinces; and of Luzerne, at the h...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...