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2261 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 227.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the churches, converted the monasteries into schools, removed the Popish priests from their parishes, coined the gold and silver vessels into money, appropriated …
2262 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 228.6 (James Aitken Wylie)
… their Churches less vigorously governed, than in Western Europe. The Protestant Church of Hungary had a government-she was ruled by superintendents, seniors …
2263 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 231.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… cathedral-church of the Escorial, and amid a heap of vermin, which issued from his own body, he gave up the ghost. Leaving these puissant monarchs to rot in their …
2264 History of Protestantism, vol. 3
… of Churches, etc—Martyrdom of Drabicius —Abolition of the Ancient Charters—Banishment of the Pastors—Thirty-three Ministers Tried, and Resign their Charges …
2265 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 242.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , seizing churches and schools, breaking open their doors, re-consecrating them, painting red crosses upon their pillars, installing the priests in the manses …
2266 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 243.10 (James Aitken Wylie)
… slaughtered bodies of the magnates, the Jesuits had marched in, and were appropriating churches by the score, banishing pastors by the dozen, dismantling …
2267 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 297.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Church of Ritterholm. The traveller Cox says: “A few years ago, Prince Henry of Prussia, being at Stockholm, descended into the vault, and opened the coffin …
2268 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 310.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the churches he has so miraculously established in this kingdom, providing eagerly for each other’s benefit by every legitimate means. Let us religiously …
2269 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 317.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Reformed Church. La Rochelle was the basis of the Huguenots; it was the symbol of their power, and while it stood their political and religious existence could …
2270 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 321.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… sixty churches within its limits, and marked their appreciation of its happy conditions by calling it the “Little Canaan.” Everywhere France boasts a fertile …
2271 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 332.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Protestant churches; it commanded the pastors to quit the kingdom within a fortnight, and forbade them to perform any clerical function on pain of the galleys …
2272 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 336.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Church, that virtue of sovereigns who have received power and the sword only that they may be props of the altar and defenders of its doctrine! Specious …
2273 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 336.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Protestant church at Charenton, exclaimed—“Happy ruins, the finest trophy France ever beheld! The statues and the triumphal arches erected to the glory of …
2274 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 344.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… The “Church of the Desert.” These assemblies speedily increased from a dozen or score of persons to hundreds, and from hundreds at last to thousands. They were …
2275 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 345.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the “Church of the Desert.” Everywhere in Languedoc and Dauphine the troops were on the alert for the Reformed. “It was a chase,” as Voltaire has expressed it, “in …
2276 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 351.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Church than the vicious lives of its priests?” And coming in the close to the remedy, “The way,” said he, “by which the Church may be reformed into a better fashion …
2277 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 356.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Roman Church, gave the priests much disquiet. One of these was Richard Hun, a tradesman in London, who spent a portion of each day in the study of the Bible. He was …
2278 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 360.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the “Church” prescribes for the relief of burdened souls, he had tried, but with no effect save that he had wasted his body and spent nearly all his means. He heard …
2279 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 393.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Church of England, now lodged in the Pope. The king saw his path clearly, and with all the impetuosity and energy of his character he addressed himself to …
2280 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 395.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the Church, had become the fountain of both civil and spiritual justice to his subjects. No one could be cited before any ecclesiastical court out of his own …