Identifier: historyofgreatr00merl (find matches)
Title: History of the great reformation in Europe in the times of Luther and Calvin..
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Merle d'Aubigné, Jean Henri. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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which hadfounded Swiss liberty, proud of the part theyhad played in the grand struggle for inde-pendence, were not disposed to be tamely in-structed by their younger brethren of theplain. Why, they might ask, should theychange the faith in which they had expelledthe Austrians, and which had consecrated byaltars all the scenes of their triumphs 1 Theirpriests were the only enlightened guides towhom they could apply; their worship andtheir festivals were occupation and diversionfor their tranquil lives, and enlivened thesilence of their peaceful retreats. They con-tinued close against religious innovations. Passing the Alps, we find ourselves in thatItaly, which, in the eyes of many, was theHoly Land of Christianity. Whence wouldEurope look for good to the Church but fromItaly, and from Rome itself! The powerwhich placed successively upon the pontificalchair so many different characters, might itnotxone day plac^ thereon a pontiff who shouldbecome an instrument of blessing io the Lords
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JEROME OP PRAGUE DRAGGED TO PRISON. HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION. 25 heritage 1 Even if no hope was to be placedon the popes, were there not there bishops andcouncils which would reform the Church 1Nothing good can come out of Nazareth; itmust proceed from Jerusalem,—from Rome.Such might have been the thoughts of man,but Gods thoughts were not as theirs. Hesays, Let him that is filthy be filthy still;Rev. xxii. 11, and He left Italy to its unright-eousness. Many causes conspired to deprivethis unhappy country of Gospel light. Itsdifferent states, sometimes rivals, sometimesenemies, came into violent collision as often asthey were shaken by any commotion. Thislana of ancient glory was by turns the preyof intestine wars and foreign invasions; thestratagems of policy, the violence of factions,the agitation of battles, seemed to be its soleoccupation, and to banish for a long time theGospel of peace. Italy, broken to pieces, and without unity,appeared but little suited to receive one gene

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