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2461 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 89.3 (James Aitken Wylie)

“The minister’s sermon is rather long,” said some, with a yawn, in whose heating this address was read. The remonstrance was without effect.

2462 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 89.4 (James Aitken Wylie)

Zwingle earnestly counseled a bold and prompt blow — in other words, an armed intervention. He thought this the speediest way to bring the Mountain Cantons …

2463 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 89.5 (James Aitken Wylie)

Uri, Schwytz, Unterwalden, Zug, and Lucerne were dependent for their daily supplies upon the markets and harvests of the plains. Shut out from these, they had …

2464 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 89.6 (James Aitken Wylie)

A wail of suffering and a cry of indignation arose from the mountains. A General Diet was opened at Bremgarten on the 14th of June, in presence of the deputies …

2465 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 89.7 (James Aitken Wylie)

This was a terrible complication. Nothing but a united and bold policy, Zwingle saw, could extricate them from it. But instead of this, the Council of Zurich …

2466 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 561.2 (James Aitken Wylie)

… , p. 89. Felice, volume 1, p. 163. Ibid.

2467 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 89.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

Occupied in the siege of Mons and the reduction of the revolted towns in the Southern Netherlands, the Spanish army were compelled meanwhile to leave the …

2468 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 89.2 (James Aitken Wylie)

At length William arrived in Holland; but he came alone; of the 24,000 troops which he had led into the Netherlands at the opening of his second campaign, only …

2469 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 89.3 (James Aitken Wylie)

William now began to prepare for the great struggle. His sagacity taught him that Holland needed other defences besides ships and walls and soldiers, if …

2471 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 89.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

With what skill are presumptuous and lying words here foisted in between holy and christian expressions!

2472 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 89.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

All the believers were required to confess in the place where the red cross was set up. None were excepted but the sick and aged, and pregnant women. If, however …

2473 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 89.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

Was there any convent whose chiefs, opposed to Tetzel’s commerce, forbade their monks to visit the places where the Indulgence had set up its throne, they …

2474 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 89.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

Then came what was the end and aim of the whole business: the reckoning of the money. For greater security, the chest had three keys: one was in Tetzel’s keeping …

2475 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 89.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

When the mission was over, the dealers relaxed from their toils. The instructions of the commissary-general forbade them, it is true, to frequent taverns and …

2477 History of the Reformation, vol. 1

The Franciscan Confessor—The Soul in the Burial-ground—The Shoemaker of Hagenau—The Students—Myconius—Conversation with Tetzel—Trick of a Nobleman—Remarks of the Wise and of the People—A Miner of Schneeberg

2478 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 89.6 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

But now let us turn to the scenes which this sale of the pardon of sins at that time gave rise to in Germany. There are characteristics which, of themselves alone …

2479 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 89.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

At Magdeburg, Tetzel refused to absolve a rich lady, unless (as he declared to her) she would pay one hundred florins in advance. She requested the advice of her …

2480 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 89.8 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

Tetzel rarely found men enlightened enough, and still more rarely men who were bold enough, to resist him. In general he easily managed the superstitious …