The Continental Reformation in Germany, France and Switzerland from the Birth of Luther to the Death of CalvinRobert Scott, 1912 - 217 pages |
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Page 76 - I utterly dissent from those who are unwilling that the Sacred Scriptures should be read by the unlearned translated into their vulgar tongue, as though Christ had taught such subtleties that they can scarcely be understood even by a few theologians, or as though the strength of the Christian Religion consisted in men's ignorance of it. The mysteries of kings it may be safer to conceal, but Christ wished his mysteries to be published as openly as possible.
Page 76 - I wish that even the weakest woman should read the Gospel — should read the Epistles of Paul. And I wish these were translated into all languages, so that they might be read and understood, not only by Scots and Irishmen, but also by Turks and Saracens.
Page 205 - Pope, all these questions would be resolved with ease; nay, would not exist. 92. Away then with all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, "Peace, peace,
Page 205 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 206 - ... gave them the sees, convents, and prelacies, and thus destroyed the service of God. That is why Italy is almost a desert now: the convents are destroyed, the sees, consumed, the revenues of the prelacies and of all the churches drawn to Rome; towns are decayed, the country and the people ruined, because there is no more any worship of God or preaching; why?
Page 101 - ... the cognizance of the Holy See; and as far as the keys of the Holy Church extend I remit to you all punishment which you deserve in purgatory on their account; and I restore you to the holy sacraments of the Church, to the unity of the faithful, and to that innocence and purity which you possessed at baptism; so that when you die the...
Page 202 - Christian days ever gave his people—language, popular manuals of instruction, Bibles, hymnology. All his opponents could offer in place of it, and all the reply they could make to him, was insipid, colourless, and feeble, by the side of his transporting eloquence. They stammered; he spoke. He alone has impressed the indelible stamp of his mind on the German language and the German intellect, and even those among us who hold him in religious detestation, as the great heresiarch and seducer of the...
Page 204 - The Pope has neither the will' nor the power to remit any penalties, except those which he has imposed by his own authority, or by that of the canons.
Page 39 - You may live from robbery, commit murder and sacrilege, break the laws as you will; your talk may be shameful, your actions criminal; you may revel in lust, and deny God in heaven ; but, if you do but bring money to Rome, you are a most respectable person.
Page 201 - This force and strength of the Reformation was only in part due to the personality of the man who was its author and spokesman in Germany. It was Luther's overpowering greatness and wonderful many-sidedness of mind that made him the man of his age and his people. Nor was there ever a German who had such an intuitive knowledge of his countrymen, and was again so completely possessed, not to say absorbed, by the national sentiment, as the Augustinian monk of Wittenberg. The mind and spirit of the Germans...