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2081 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 393.11 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… ; so the hierarchy, from age to age, and almost from year to year, contracted the space that it had temporarily granted to the human mind, until at last this space …
2082 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 398.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… , the same aged canon who had procured Zwingle’s election to Zurich, undertook the defense of the pope. He maintained that the Church, the flock, the “third estate …
2083 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 399.8 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the most original of all the characters that appeared in the great drama of the sixteenth century. At the age of nine years, he had been placed under the care …
2084 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.”
2085 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 …
2086 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 …
2087 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 …
2088 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 …
2089 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 …
2090 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 …
2091 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 …
2092 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 …
2093 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 …
2094 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 …
2095 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.
2096 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 …
2097 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 …
2098 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 …
2099 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 …
2100 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 …