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2341 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 423.8 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… present Church that engrossed his thoughts, and not that of the Church of former times. He clung particularly to these words of St. Paul: For we being many are …
2342 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 439.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… Christ’s Church, thou art also a member of his body.” said he; “and if thou art a member of Christ’s body, thou art full of the Divinity; for in him dwelleth the fullness …
2343 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 442.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the Church. But God raised up the Reformation, and Christianity was saved. The reformers who had shouted liberty, soon called for obedience. The very men who …
2344 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 446.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the church of Saint Catherine of the Scholars, to implore God to preserve the liberties of the Church and of the kingdom. “The colleges were closed, strong bodies …
2345 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 456.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… his body that he could scarcely hold himself upright, and sometimes even fainted in the churches and fields as he was preaching to the people. All this, he tells …
2346 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 467.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… Protestant Churches form “a whole body, fitly jointed together.”
2347 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 482.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the Church in general; he had grappled with the Sorbonne itself, that body whose supreme law was its own glory and preservation. Accordingly it was delighted …
2348 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 499.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the Church from the very beginning of Christianity, since liberty and truth could not be maintained here below, save by protesting continually against …
2349 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 509.11 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
“All the pastors are its natural members; but each church shall further elect from its body a man full of the Spirit and of faith, to whom it shall intrust its powers for all that is in the jurisdiction of the synod.
2350 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 510.9 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… (the Church and State), we ought to seek the means best calculated to obtain it. Now, if the direction of the Church is intrusted to the civil government, as was …
2351 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 523.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… spiritual body, the Church of the Son of God, children of the same Heavenly Father, and consequently brothers in the Spirit, authorized to unite when our salvation …
2352 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 523.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… one body, are the two cradles of the Church; and it is in this its hour of weakness and humiliation that it shines forth with the brightest glory.
2353 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 528.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… evangelical Church through the mouth of the poet Cordus, “penetrating Luther, mild Oecolampadius, magnanimous Zwingle, pious Snepf, eloquent Melancthon …
2354 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 528.8 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… Christian Church is composed, see a figure in these words. In fact, the Romanists declare that This is my body signifies not only “my body,” but also “my blood,” “my …
2355 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 564.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… Christian Church, “which is,” said they, “the assembly of all true believers and all the saints,” in the midst of whom there are, nevertheless, in this life, many false …
2356 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 575.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the Church what hump-backs and the scrofula are in the body?”—“Does he not insinuate,” said the Lutherans; “that we are beginning to look back after the onions and …
2357 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 601.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the Church are trodden under foot, and its waters are troubled! Let us set our minds to concord and peace. When the Lord shall have opened heaven, there will not …
2358 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 602.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… of Church and State, which had hitherto checked the progress of the Reform in Switzerland, was now about to accelerate its movements.
2359 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 618.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the churches,—no more suitors in the ecclesiastical courts,—no more purchasers in the markets, or boon companions in the taverns!—The widowed and desolate …
2360 History of the Reformation, vol. 4, p. 629.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… numerous body of friends, surrounded the church, and having thus completed the blockade, entered the building, dragged the minister from the pulpit, and drove …