The life of Luther, by a ProtestantLongman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1841 - 84 pages |
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Page 17 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 28 - Spalatinus, and of the friends you mention, namely, that sacred theology may be taught without giving offence to the pontiffs. The Scriptures themselves, in the most explicit manner, lay open men's abuses of the Scriptures, which abuses the pontiffs cannot bear to have mentioned. I have given up myself to this work in the name of the Lord. May his will be done! The cause is that of mankind in general; let us, in faith and prayer, commit the event to God. and we shall be safe.
Page 18 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come, and her days shall...
Page 52 - ... such of the princes as pleased might endeavour to persuade him to recant his errors; and if they succeeded, he promised that he himself would take care...
Page 39 - And Simeon said, Well. And he said again, Lo, he has been set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel...
Page 48 - Thyself. Hast Thou chosen me for this work? I ask Thee how I may be sure of this, if it be Thy will : for I would never have thought, in all my life, of undertaking aught against such great lords. Stand by me, O God, in the Name of Thy dear Son, Jesus Christ, who shall be my defence and shelter, yea, my mighty fortress, through the might and strength of Thy Holy Ghost.
Page 33 - So novel a scene excited great interest, and the concourse accordingly was immense. The people assembled at nine o'clock in the morning, and proceeded, in regular divisions, to the spot in the neighbourhood where the ceremony was to be performed. Having there partaken of a slight repast, an eminent member of the university erected a kind of funeral pile and set it on fire ; after which Luther took Gratian's Abridgement of the Canon Law ; the letters commonly called decretals of the pontiffs ; the...
Page 62 - He begins in the apostolical manner: " Grace and peace to you from the Lord Jesus. I shall not complain of you for having behaved yourself as a man alienated from us, for the sake of keeping fair with the papists...
Page 75 - Then getting into a chariot which had been sent for him from the castle, accompanied by Bugenhagen, he said, " Here go the pope of Germany and cardinal Pomeranus ! " Being introduced, he conversed with the nuncio, among other things, on the subject of the council. He said, it was not seriously proposed ; the pope did but play with them : and, if it were held, it would busy itself only about trifles, such as tonsures and vestments, and not upon faith, and justification, and...