History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3

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R. Carter & brothers, 1847

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Page 407 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not; 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 197 - But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with ? They say unto him, We are able.
Page 470 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb : The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Page 140 - Confess that you have been deceived by Luther." THE YOUNG AUGUSTINES. — " As the apostles were deceived by Jesus Christ." THE INQUISITORS. — " We declare you to be heretics, worthy of being burnt alive ; and we deliver you over to the secular arm.
Page 329 - His apostles' feet, the pilgrims turned their eyes to a small crucifix attached to the cross. ' When the devils send us hail and thunder,' continued the priest, ' this crucifix moves about so violently that it seems to get loose from the cross, as if desirous of running at the devil, and it continues throwing out sparks of fire against the storm. If it were not for this, nothing would be left upon earth.' " The pious pilgrims were deeply moved by the account of these wonderful prodigies. ' No one,'...
Page 221 - 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 62 - Wittemberg, to the great reproach of the Gospel, have caused me such pain that if I were not confident of the truth of our cause, I should have given way to despair.
Page 133 - Moses' seat : all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do not * Matthew, chap, xxiii. ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Page 187 - ... to arrest this march of murder; a boy who had been in the count's service, and had joined the rebels, capered gaily before him, and played the dead march upon his fife, as if he had been leading his victims in a dance. All perished; the child was wounded in its mother's arms, and she herself thrown upon a dung-cart, and thus conveyed to Heilbrunn. At the news of these cruelties, a cry of horror was heard from the friends of the Reformation, and Luther's feeling heart underwent a terrible conflict....
Page 207 - I do not take a wife that I may live long with her ; but seeing the nations and the princes letting loose their fury against me, foreseeing that my end is near, and that after my death they will again trample my doctrine under foot, I am resolved for the edification of the weak to bear a striking testimony to what I teach here below."J On the llth of June, 1525, Luther went to the house of his friend and colleague Amsdorfl".

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