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1881 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 578.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… receive the imperial diadem from the hands of the Pope. He would have preferred to have had the ceremony performed in the Eternal City; the act would have borrowed …
1882 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 580.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the end more damaging to the victor than to the vanquished. It had provoked the League of Cognac, in which the kings of Europe, with the Pontiff at their head …
1883 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 582.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the unworthy suspicion. The aged John, Elector of Saxony, set the example of courage, being the first to arrive on the scene. The last to arrive were the Roman …
1884 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 585.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
While the emperor delayed, and the Diet was not opened, and the courier from Augsburg posted along the highway, which ran close to the foot of the Castle of Coburg …
1885 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 587.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… 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.” Seckendorf …
1886 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 617.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
Before the curtain rises on a new development of the great drama, let us pause, and cast a glance back on the track over which we have passed. The few moments we …
1887 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 621.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… is the great master-spirit of the age; his battles are the great events that constitute its history; and his closet is the source and spring of all those influences …
1888 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 8.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to the Elijah of the Old Dispensation, and John the Baptist of the New; and notably in this, that he was the prophet of a new age, which was to be ushered in with terrible …
1889 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 15.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , at the age of nineteen, removed to Wittemberg. The three years he remained there were very eventful, and communicated to the ardent mind of the young Swede …
1890 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 20.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… that the power conferred by Christ on the apostles and ministers of the Church was spiritual, the power even to preach the Gospel and convert sinners. Christ …
1891 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 28.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the Cathedral of Upsala. An inscription upon it informs us that he was born in 1490, and died in the seventieth year of his age, and in the fortieth of a glorious …
1892 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 31.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… declare the unity and agreement of the Swedish Church with the Christian Church of the primitive ages, through our adoption of the Apostolic, Nicene, and …
1893 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 71.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… renovated age and a restored faith. The seed that fell from the hand of Wittembach was reinforced by the writings of Luther, which the famous printer Frobenius …
1894 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 86.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the conference held in the autumn of that year (October, 1529) on the question of the Lord’s Supper. The ardent mind of Philip would be set on fire by the proposal …
1895 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 100.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… on the part of Clement to poise the one against the other. At no time did the views and interests of all three coincide. On one object only were they able to agree …
1896 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 129.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the day, but the darkness of superstition deepening year by year in his soul. The two — the glory of the Alps and the glory of the Church — seemed to blend and become …
1897 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 147.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ) from the bishop the appointment for his son John. Calvin was then only twelve years of age; but it was the manner of the times for even younger persons to hold …
1898 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 147.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… twelve years perform? Now came the Black Death to Noyon. The pestilence, a dreadful one, caused great terror in the place, many of the inhabitants had already …
1899 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 148.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… after the first few days the scholar of fourteen and the man of fifty became inseparable. At the hour of school dismissals it was not the play-ground, but his …
1900 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 172.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… amongst the most renowned of the primitive age, it seemed as if the Gospel, which here had lain a thousand years in its sepulcher, were rising from the dead. Alexander …