History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, &c, Volume 3

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Page 418 - They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 235 - And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
Page 156 - FLUNG to the heedless winds, Or on the waters cast, Their ashes shall be watched, And gathered at the last : And from that scattered dust, Around us and abroad, Shall spring a plenteous seed Of witnesses for God.
Page 115 - In 1518 we find seventy-one different works ; in 1519, one hundred and eleven ; in 1520, two hundred and eight; in 1521, two hundred and eleven; in 1522, three hundred and fortyseven ; and in 1523, four hundred and ninety-eight And where were all these published ? For the most part at Wittemberg.
Page 197 - The Spirit! the Spirit! But most assuredly I will not follow where their spirit leads them. May God of his mercy preserve me from a Church in which there are none but saints.* I desire to dwell with the humble, the feeble, the sick, who know and feel their sins, and who groan and cry continually to God from the bottom of their hearts to obtain his consolation and support.
Page 71 - Come along, my friends," said the innkeeper of the Black Bear, "sit ye down beside this gentleman ; I will let you off easy." — " Come, come," said the knight, " I'll pay the score." During supper, the mysterious stranger made many striking and instructive remarks. Both merchants and students listened in silence, more attentive to his words than to the dishes before them. In the course of conversation, one of the merchants exclaimed, " Luther must be either an angel from heaven, or a devil from...
Page 197 - has liberated men's consciences from the Papal yoke ; but he has left them in a carnal liberty, and has not led them forward in spirit towards God." He considered himself as called of God to remedy this great evil. The revelations of the Spirit, according to him, were the means by which the Reformation he was charged with should be effected. " He who hath the Spirit," said he, " hath true faith, although he should never once in all his life see the Holy Scriptures.
Page 109 - ... vast, ancient, and powerful sovereignty of Rome by the energy of its faith and the rapidity of its conquests. On all sides, as in the first warm days of spring, the seed was bursting from the earth spontaneously and without effort. Every day showed some new progress. Individuals, villages, towns, whole cities, joined in this new confession of the name of Jesus Christ. There was unpitying...
Page 396 - Certainly the angel has begun his flight through the midst of heaven, " having the everlasting Gospel to preach — to every nation and kindred, and tongue and people...
Page 191 - it is to music that I give the highest place and the greatest honor. A schoolmaster ought to know how to sing. Without this qualification I would have nothing to do with him.

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