Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 4 of 4: Ancient and Modern (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mosheim, John Lorence Von

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ISBN 10: 1331762995 ISBN 13: 9781331762997

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 4 of 4: Ancient and Modern

When the seventeenth century Opened, Romish influence had revived, in some degree, almost every where; hence its friends fully reckoned upon the recovery Of their lost ground. At the same time, they saw this occupied by their adversaries so firmly as to leave no hope Of regaining it, without overstrained and unscrupulous exertions. From such arose the thirty years' war that desolated Germany, and the religious troubles which long filled France with dissension and misery. In countries where the government was protestant, Romish efforts for a re-conquest were only felt from domestic intrigues and inter ference with foreign politics. These things were, however, quite enough to sharpen religious animosity. Men were exasperated by the probable suspicion and occasional discovery of treacher ous movements among themselves to re - establish a creed which they detested as a national crime and pollution. England es pecially drew from Romish continental struggles the most um hesitating conviction that a sanguinary intolerance was the inherent vice of papal principles. Hence Protestant vied with Romanist in devising cruel schemes of mutual extermination. The only advantage that the former's intolerance could claim over the latter's, was its operation within a narrower and less disputable field. Protestant persecution was limited by Scrip ture and primitive antiquity. Romish, on the contrary, raged most frequently and fiercely in defence of principles that can bring no proof either from the written word, or from the most venerable among uninspired records. Its ordinary object was.

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The modern period of ecclesiastical history may be conveniently dated from the beginning of the seventeenth century. Protestant principles were then found firmly rooted in those communities which profess them still. It is true, undoubtedly, that they were then extensively prevalent in the Austrian states, from which they were subsequently, in a very great measure, expelled. But the imperial court had never forsaken Rome, and it was supported in this adherence by a majority of the people, together with a great preponderance of the aristocracy. Austria, therefore, must be considered as entering upon the seventeenth century in that theological position which she has occupied ever since. The same may be said of France. Her powerful and intelligent population was, indeed, extensively pervaded by protestantism when the sixteenth century closed, and it so continued long afterwards. But in this case, too, the government, backed by a formidable array of aristocratic and popular support, was Romish. Hence patronage and fashion enabled papal divinity to encroach incessantly on the rival creed, until the revocation of the edict of Nantes would no longer suffer a Huguenots voice to be openly heard in France. In most other parts of Europe the religion both of prince and people remains much as the sixteenth century left it. The electoral house of Saxony, lately become royal, is, however, an exception.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331762995
• ISBN 13: 9781331762997
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 650