ISBN: 1231316225

[EAN: 9781231316221], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], JEAN HENRI MERLE D'AUBIGNE,ENGLAND, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 372 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.8in.This hist… Plus…

[EAN: 9781231316221], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], JEAN HENRI MERLE D'AUBIGNE,ENGLAND, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 372 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.8in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: . . . Breaks Up--A Scene in a Convent--Myconius at Lucerne--Effects of the Petition--The Council and the Diet--Friburg--Treatment of Oswald--Oswald Encouraged--Oswald Quits Lucerne--Zwingles Family Alarmed--His Resolution--Zwingles Prayer. At the period when the decree of the Diet of Worms was announced, a steadily progressive movement was beginning to manifest itself in the quiet valleys of Switzerland. To the voices which were raised in the plains of Upper and Lower Saxony, responded from the mountains of Switzerlandthe bold voices of its priests and herdsmen, or of the inhabitants of its martial cities. The partisans of Rome, in their sudden alarm, exclaimed aloud that a vast and formidable conspiracy was every where forming against the Church. The friends of the Gospel joyfully replied, that as in spring-time the breath of life is felt from the sea-shore to the mountain top, so the Spirit of God was now melting the ice of a long winter in every part of Christendom, and clothing with verdure and flowers the most secluded valleys, and the most steep and barren rocks. Germany did not communicate the light of truth to Switzerland, --Switzerland to France, --France to England: all these lands received it from God; just as no one region transmits the light to another, but the same orb of splendour dispenses it direct to the earth. Raised far above men, Christ, the Day-Star from on high, was, at the period of the Reformation, as at the first introduction of the Gospel, the Divine source whence came the light of the world. One and the same doctrine suddenly established itself in the 16th century, at the domestic hearths, and in the places of worship, of nations the most distant and dissimilar. It was because the same Spirit was every where present, producing the same. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781231316221

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