Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Reformation in Poland: And of the Influence which the Scriptural Doctrines Have Exercised on that Country in Literary, Moral, and Political Respects, Volume 1

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Page 8 - Kotzel, sent to the Emperor Michael, and said, ' Our land is baptized, but we have no teachers who would instruct us, and translate for us the sacred books. We do not understand either the Greek or the Latin language ; some teach us one thing, and some another ; therefore we do not understand the meaning of the Scriptures, neither their import. Send us teachers who might explain to us the Scriptures and their meaning.
Page 193 - ... detach him from the Protestants. But our Pole was no respecter of Popes, and even dared address Julius III. in the following strain: "Consider, O Julius, and consider it well, with what a man you will have to do ; not with an Italian, indeed, but with a Russian [he was a native of Little Russia]. Not with one of your mean Popish subjects, but with the citizen of a kingdom where the monarch himself is obliged to obey the law. You may condemn me, if you like, to death, but you will not have done...
Page 281 - his advice, what he judged fit to be done for the pre" servation of her kingdom, and for the restoring of the " kingdom of Christ. Yet he would not omit to pray him " to do it again and again by his repeated letters. For " I know," said he, " how great your authority is with the " English, and with the Queen herself.
Page 195 - The oath," says Orzechowski, addressing the king, "abolishes the liberty of the bishops, and renders them spies on the nation and the monarch. The higher clergy having voluntarily submitted to this slavery have in reality entered into a conspiracy against their own country. Conspiring against you, they are yet sitting in your council. They have investigated your plans, and reported them to their foreign master.
Page 261 - Lasco seemed to extend not only to *nls particular congregation of Germans, but over all the other churches of foreigners set up in London, as also over their schools of learning and education. They were all subject to his inspection, and within his jurisdiction. And Melancthon, in an epistle to him in the month of tie7,'prinPu*J September, 1551, speaks of the purity of doctrine " in his
Page 257 - Latimer made way for his reception, and in one of his sermons before King Edward made honourable mention of him, using an argument proper for that audience, viz., how much it would tend to the bringing down of God's blessing upon the realm to receive him and such pious exiles as he. " John A Lasco was here, a great learned man, and, as they say, a nobleman in his country, and is gone his way again. If it be for lack of entertainment, the more the pity. I could wish such men as he to be in the realm,...
Page 193 - Julius, and consider it well, with what a man you will have to do, — not with an Italian, indeed, but with a Russine,t — not with one of your mean popish subjects, but with the citizen of a kingdom where the monarch himself is obliged to obey the law. You may condemn me, if you like, to death; but you will not have done with me. The king will not execute your sentence. The cause will be submitted to the diet. Your Romans bow their knees before the crowd of your menials; they bear on their necks...
Page viii - Reformation, were afterwards rendered subservient to the persecution of its disciples. The Jesuits, who defended in that country the interests of Rome, being unable to combat their antagonists with fire and sword, adopted other measures, which inflicted on Poland more severe calamities than those which might have been produced by bloody conflicts between religious parties. As the laws of the country did not allow any inhabitant of Poland to be persecuted on account of his religious opinions, they...
Page 387 - Docentur etiam homines Sacramenta esse actiones divinitus institutas, et extra usum institutum res ipsas non habere rationem Sacramenti, sed in usu instituto in hac communione vere et substantialiter adesse Christum et vere exhiberi sumentibus corpus et sanguinem Christi, Christum testari, quod sit in eis, et faciat eos sibi membra, et quod abluerit eos sanguine suo.
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