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2041 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 408.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
His son Nicholas, then thirty-one years of age, had been for two years provost of the church of Berne, and as such, by virtue of the papal ordinances, enjoyed great privileges; accordingly Berthold Haller used to call him “our bishop.”
2042 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 431.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… same year, Zurich had made an important acquisition. Conrad Pellican, superior of the Franciscans at Basle, professor of divinity at the age of twenty-four …
2043 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 438.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… for the school and for the age, which were then first heard in Paris, and disseminated by the press throughout the christian world. We may easily understand …
2044 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 442.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… were the faithful images of the character of their people. If the Gospel had entered France with the most illustrious of the Valois family, it would have brought …
2045 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 446.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… years of age, and who was never married. The purity of his life, his profound knowledge, which procured him the title of “the most learned of the nobles,” the openness …
2046 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 450.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… to the voice of religion. Margaret imparted to her all she read; and the widow of the lieutenant-general of the Church began to taste the sweets of the doctrine …
2047 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 456.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… , assumed the cowl at the age of fifteen. “It was God’s pleasure,” said he in after-years, “that I might make known to the world the impurity of these whited sepulchers …
2048 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 461.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… flee the paths of impurity as he had always done,” entered into the holy bonds of wedlock, two years before Luther, and the first of the French monks or priests …
2049 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 484.6 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… three years, had arrived there before him. The aged doctor of the Sorbonne found in his young pupil a man in the vigor of life, a Christian in all the energy of …
2050 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 491.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… to the Church. The Cardinal of Lorraine had been coadjutor of the Bishop of Metz at the age of four years. It was then a common practice to confer ecclesiastical …
2051 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 491.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… of the canons petitioned the chapter that they might be allowed to quit the city. Already many of the inhabitants had been carried off by the great death, and …
2052 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 551.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… excited the liveliest enthusiasm, and every one exclaimed that he was the handsomest man in the empire, as well as the mightiest prince in the world.
2053 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 629.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the end of the year 1530, he crossed the mountain in the middle of winter, entered the church of Valangin, went into the pulpit, and began to preach at the very …
2054 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 632.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… save the Reform. He resolved, therefore, to be at one and the same time the man of the State and of the Church. The registers prove that in his later years he took …
2055 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 666.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… as the ditch. The weight of years, and the wounds with which he was covered, did not permit him to cross it. He fell in the mire at the bottom, still holding the glorious …
2056 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 667.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… -two years of age, and already a member of the council of Two Hundred,—a husband and a father,—had rushed into the foremost ranks with all the impetuosity of youth …
2057 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 674.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… supply the place of their father. This young man, scarcely twenty-eight years of age, and who presided forty years with wisdom and blessing over this church …
2058 History of the Reformation, vol. 5, p. 677.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… in the East in the midst of the antihellenic races, had its youth in the animated epoch of the Greeks, its manhood in the stern period of Roman greatness, and …
2059 History of the Reformation, vol. 5, p. 678.8 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… , in the spirit of the Gospel, the word of God first, and through it the doctrine and the life—the doctrine and the life, and through them the forms; they said, forms …
2060 History of the Reformation, vol. 5, p. 680.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… in the year 565, and after being driven to and fro on the ocean, the little missionary band reached the waters of the Hebrides. Columba landed near the barren …