The Renaissance: The Protestant Revolution and the Catholic Reformation in Continental Europe

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Century Company, 1915 - 627 pages
 

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Page 17 - Bull, there were to be seven princely electors: the archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne, the king of Bohemia, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony, and the Margrave of Brandenburg.
Page 57 - Despotism . . . fostered in the highest degree the individuality not only of the tyrant or Condottiere himself, but also of the men whom he protected or used as his tools—the secretary, minister, poet, and companion.
Page 65 - Michelangelo came, with a genius spiritualised by the reverie of the middle age, penetrated by its spirit of inwardness and introspection...
Page 69 - I seemed to find myself as it were in some strange part of the universe which was neither wholly of the baseness of earth, nor wholly of the serenity of Heaven, but by the grace of God I seemed lifted in a mystic manner from this lower towards that upper sphere.
Page 58 - I have read and re-read, not once, but a thousand times ; not cursorily, but studiously, intently, bringing to them the best powers of my mind. I tasted in the morning, and digested at night ; I quaffed as a boy, to ruminate as an old man. These works have become so familiar to me that they cling not to my memory merely, but to the very marrow of my bones...
Page 239 - Theol. Studien und Kritiken, 1851, " Johann Denck und sein Biichlein vom Gesetz," p. 154. 2 Letter to (Ecolampadius, quoted by Keller, " Ein Apostel," p. 252. the Word of God which is living, powerful, eternal, free and independent of all elements of this world : for as it is God Himself, so is it spirit and not letter, and written without pen and paper, so that it can never more be blotted out."1 He took the side of his sect as to adult baptism, but it was a matter on which he laid no stress.
Page 201 - ... dishonour Christ. We hold that it is expedient and according to the ordinance of God, that all open idolaters, blasphemers, murderers, thieves, adulterers and false witnesses, all seditious and quarrelsome persons, slanderers, pugilists, drunkards, and spendthrifts, if they do not amend their lives after they have been duly admonished, shall be cut off from communion with believers until they have given satisfactory proof of...
Page 58 - how the soul of man, lost in the mazes of life and defeated by the fierceness of its own passions, can learn its peril, escape from the stain and power of sin, and enter into perfect blessedness...
Page 389 - BEARD (Rev. Dr. C.). LECTURES ON THE REFORMATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN ITS RELATION TO MODERN THOUGHT AND KNOWLEDGE.
Page 197 - God desire to live (volons rivre) in this holy evangelical law and Word of God, as it has been announced to us, desiring to abandon all masses, images, idols, and all that which may pertain thereto, to live in union and obedience to justice.

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