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1901 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 233.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to the library of the university and spent some hours amid its treasures. He was now twenty years of age, and he reveled in the riches around him. One day, as he …
1902 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 233.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… lays the holy cross, and they who bear it patiently learn wisdom.” Luther heard, in the words of the aged priest, God calling him back from the grave. He recovered …
1903 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 266.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… proclaimed the advent of the year of release - the begun opening of the doors of that great prison-house in which the human soul had sat for ages and sighed in …
1904 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 268.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… years since: the other has been growing with the ages; it has been coming into being through the decisions of Councils, the rules of canonists, and the edicts …
1905 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 274.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the Palatinate. His birth took place on February 14th, 1497. His father, a pious and worthy man, died when he was eleven years of age, and his education was cared …
1906 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 329.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… was the name of Martin Luther. Thus did Rome join him to all those witnesses for the truth who, in former ages, had fallen under her ban, and many of whom had perished …
1907 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 334.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to the mourners around his stake, as the patriarchs on their deathbed, “I die, but God will surely visit you?” The “hundred years” had revolved, and now the deliverer …
1908 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 345.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the currents of thought which it is creating; the new social life to which it is giving birth; the letters and arts of which it is becoming the nurse; the new …
1909 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 388.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… into the grave in the flower of his age, in the very prime of his manhood, after a reign of ten years, “and all his mighty projects vanished into smoke.” He left his …
1910 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 393.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the growing irreverence of the age. It was the only means she knew of heightening the spirit of devotion among her members, and strengthening the national …
1911 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 397.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… cost the German nations so much treasure and blood. In fact the legate came empowered by the Pope to levy a tax of a tenth upon the English clergy for the war …
1912 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 398.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . But the Vatican could not show its displeasure or venture on resenting the indignity while the warlike Henry V. occupied the throne. Now, however, the silent …
1913 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 402.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… on the one side, and their incriminators on the other, let us put to history the question, How many are the years of peace, and how many are the years of war, which …
1914 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 410.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the Protestant light in Germany, from the year 1517 to its first culmination in 1521 from the strokes of the monk’s hammer on the door of the castle-church …
1915 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 412.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… hundred years the theologians knew the Bible only through the Latin version, commonly styled the Vulgate, being absolutely ignorant of the original tongues …
1916 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 420.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… passing year, as did also the corruption. The two went on by equal stages, the cry waxing ever the louder and the corruption growing ever the stronger, till at …
1917 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 428.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the original. With this view he repaired to Stuttgart, to profit by the instructions of the celebrated scholar Reuchlin, or Capnion. In the year following …
1918 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 428.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… moment: the names we have recited were the stars of morning. Verily, to the eyes of men that for a thousand years had dwelt in darkness, it was a pleasant thing …
1919 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 449.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the short space of ten years. The truth entered, and the heart was cleansed from the pollution of lust, the understanding was liberated from the yoke of tradition …
1920 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 494.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… short, the “golden age,” so long waited for. The princes will summon a Diet-a national and lay Diet-to meet at Spires, in November of this year. And, further, they will …