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27701 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 215.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… this spiritual movement was not confined within the walls of Wittenberg; it spread through Germany. Princes, nobles, and learned men from every quarter, addressed …

27702 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 228.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… most spiritual in Christianity, namely, pardon, might be purchased in shops like any other commodity. Luther’s great work consisted in employing this extreme …

27703 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 228.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… the spiritual head of Christendom is surrounded! It is our duty to prevent the ruin and dishonor of our people. For this reason we most humbly but most urgently …

27704 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 253.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… in spiritual matters is a real worship, and ought to be rendered solely to the Creator.”

27705 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 269.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… great spiritual interests of the people, and learned by degrees what God designed to teach him.

27707 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 307.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… its spiritual principles and its interior springs of action. I can well understand this way of viewing my subject, but I cannot participate in it. In my opinion …

27708 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 312.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… of spiritual pride and fanaticism. Luther was a man very subject to the infirmities of our nature, and he was unable to escape altogether from these dangers …

27709 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 315.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… a spiritual struggle. Melancthon and Carlstadt, the one a layman, the other a priest, thought that the liberty of contracting the bonds of wedlock should be …

27710 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 318.9 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… wholly spiritual,—the Christian looks at the heart, and not the arm; he weighs the justice of his cause, and not its outward strength. And when this question is …

27711 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 320.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… those spiritual treasures hitherto shut up within the hearts of a few pious men. “Would that this one book,” exclaimed Luther, “were in every language, in every …

27712 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 320.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… its spiritual enemies; Luther’s lively imagination easily embodied the emotions of his heart, and the superstitions of the Middle Ages had still some hold …

27713 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 325.8 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… a spiritual treasure, from which he drew at will indulgences for the pardon of souls.

27714 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 329.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… the spiritual life: at Erfurth and Wittenberg he had made trial of the power of God, which did not so easily permit him to believe that God appeared to his creatures …

27715 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 335.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… and spiritual eating that worketh by faith, and without which all forms are mere show and grimace. Now this faith consists in a firm belief that Jesus Christ …

27716 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 346.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… most spiritual, pious, and learned monks declared for the Reformation. In the Franciscan convent at Ulm, Eberlin, and Kettenbach attacked the slavish works …

27717 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 349.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… these spiritual wolves.” And addressing the clergy, they said: “Embrace the evangelical doctrine, recall Ibach, or else we will refuse to pay our tithes!”

27718 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 354.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… two spiritual powers which for three centuries have been warring together, were at this moment brothers; and perhaps, if they had met, Luther and Loyola would …

27719 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 369.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… other spiritualizes everything. The former of these two extremes is that of Rome; the latter, of the Mystics. Religion, like man himself, is compounded of body …

27720 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 369.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)

… exaggerated spiritualism; Carlstadt and the reformed attack a hateful materialism. Each of them arraigns the error which is in his view appears the most …