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1901 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 190.4 (James Aitken Wylie)

… his Church, and he descended on Poland with an immense army. At the same time, Charles Gustavus of Sweden, taking advantage of the discontent which prevailed …

1902 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 192.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

… Protestant Churches of Lithuania. That blight very soon overspread the whole land; and the green tree of Protestantism began to be touched with the sere …

1903 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 194.3 (James Aitken Wylie)

… the body of the Church by the unity of the faith;” and he went on to speak of Bohemia in a style that must have done credit, in the eyes of the legate, at once to his …

1904 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 196.5 (James Aitken Wylie)

… their Church at a subsequent period enjoyed in Poland.

1905 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 200.1 (James Aitken Wylie)

Church of Bohemia, now in her most flourishing condition, deserves some attention. That Church was composed of the three following bodies: the Calixtines …

1906 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 200.2 (James Aitken Wylie)

… this body was to determine in all matters appertaining to the doctrine and worship of the Church-the dispensation of Sacraments, the ordination of ministers …

1907 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 213.2 (James Aitken Wylie)

… deformed churches, was, they affirmed, to effect a real Reformation. They had a perfect right to the word. They appointed a Commission of Reformers, having at …

1908 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 …

1909 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 …

1910 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 …

1911 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 …

1912 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 …

1913 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 …

1914 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 …

1915 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 …

1916 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 …

1917 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 …

1918 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 …

1919 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 …

1920 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 …