An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: In which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power are Considered in Their Connexion with the State of Learning and Philosophy and the Political History of Europe During that Period, Volume 4Vernor and Hood, Poultry, 1803 - Church history |
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... religion , which is known by the title of the Blessed Reformation . This grand revolution , which arose in Saxony ... religious revolutions that fill the annals of history down to our times . The face of Europe was , in a more especial ...
... religion , which is known by the title of the Blessed Reformation . This grand revolution , which arose in Saxony ... religious revolutions that fill the annals of history down to our times . The face of Europe was , in a more especial ...
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... religion . Among these contrivances , the distribution of indulgences , which enabled the wealthy to purchase impunity for their crimes by certain sums applied to religious uses , held an e- minent rank . This traffic of indulgences was ...
... religion . Among these contrivances , the distribution of indulgences , which enabled the wealthy to purchase impunity for their crimes by certain sums applied to religious uses , held an e- minent rank . This traffic of indulgences was ...
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... religion , with multiplied XVI . quotations and authorities from the writings of the I. ancient doctors ; the latter ... religious good deal of freedom upon religious subjects , and even upon those that were looked upon as most essential ...
... religion , with multiplied XVI . quotations and authorities from the writings of the I. ancient doctors ; the latter ... religious good deal of freedom upon religious subjects , and even upon those that were looked upon as most essential ...
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... religion and rational piety . All they aimed at was , to set limits to the overgrown power of the pontifs , to reform the corrupt manners of the clergy , and to prevent the frauds that were too commonly practised by that order of men ...
... religion and rational piety . All they aimed at was , to set limits to the overgrown power of the pontifs , to reform the corrupt manners of the clergy , and to prevent the frauds that were too commonly practised by that order of men ...
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... religion or literature , when they grew to a certain degree of warmth and ani- mosity , were decided , like the quarrels of valiant knights , by a single combat . Some famous uni- versity was pitched upon as the field of battle , while ...
... religion or literature , when they grew to a certain degree of warmth and ani- mosity , were decided , like the quarrels of valiant knights , by a single combat . Some famous uni- versity was pitched upon as the field of battle , while ...
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Page 191 - God, to justify his law, shall suddenly cut off this society, even by the hands of those who have most succoured them, and made use of them ; so that, at the end, they shall become odious to all nations. They shall be worse than Jews, having no resting-place upon earth, and then shall a Jew have more favour than a Jesuit.
Page 124 - Rigid and uncomplying himself, he showed no indulgence to the infirmities of others. Regardless of the distinctions of rank and character, he uttered his admonitions with an acrimony and vehemence, more apt to irritate than to reclaim.
Page 443 - That the kingdom of Christ, or me visible church he had established upon earth, was an assembly of true and real saints, and ought therefore to be inaccessible to the wicked and unrighteous, and also exempt from all those institutions, which human prudence suggests, to oppose the progress of iniquity, or to correct and reform transgressors.
Page 128 - Ireland (calling the protestants by that title). The good-woman of the house being well affected to the protestant religion, and also having a brother, named John Edmonds, of the same, then a ' citizen in Dublin, was much troubled at the doctor's words ; but watching her convenient time...
Page 394 - ... but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered or adjudged to be heresy by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four General Councils or any of them, or by any other General Council wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the said canonical Scriptures...
Page 16 - The greatest part of the bishops and canons passed their days in dissolute mirth and luxury, and squandered away, in the 'gratification of their lusts and passions, the wealth that had been set apart for religious and charitable purposes. Nor were they less tyrannical than voluptuous : for the most despotic princes never treated their vassals with more rigour and severity, than these ghostly rulers employed towards all such as were under their jurisdiction.
Page 431 - ... properly speaking, commit sin ; that religion " consisted in the union of the spirit, or rational " soul, with the Supreme Being ; that all those " who had attained this happy union, by sublime " contemplation and elevation of mind, were " then allowed to indulge, without exception or " restraint, their appetites and passions ; that all " their actions and pursuits were then perfectly " innocent ; and that, after the death of the body, " they were to be united to the Deity.
Page 129 - ... who causing it to be opened, that the secretary might read the commission, there was nothing save a pack of cards, with the knave of clubs uppermost...
Page 122 - Edward VI. This amiable prince, whose early youth was crowned with that wisdom, sagacity, and virtue, that would have done honour to advanced years, gave new spirit and vigour to the Protestant cause, and was its brightest ornament, as •well as its most effectual support. He encouraged learned and pious men of foreign countries to settle in England, and addressed a particular invitation to Martin...
Page 52 - Wittemberg, and there, in the presence of a prodigious multitude of people, of all ranks, and orders, he committed to the flames both the bull that had been published against him, and the decretals and canons relating to the Pope's supreme jurisdiction.