Identifier: historyofgreatr00merl (find matches)
Title: History of the great reformation in Europe in the times of Luther and Calvin..
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Merle d'Aubigné, Jean Henri. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ctors. When the sur-rounding pagans saw the holiness of thesemen of God, they abandoned in great num-bers their sacred oaks, their mysteriouscaverns, and their blood-stained altars, andobeyed the gentle voice of the Gospel.After the death of these pious refugees,their cells were transformed into houses ofprayer.3 In 305 Constantius Chlorus suc-ceeded to the throne of the Ctesars, and putan end to the persecution. The Christianity which was brought tothese people by merchants, soldiers, or mis-sionaries, although not the ecclesiastical 1 Britannorum inaeeessa Romanis loca Christovero subdita. (Tertullian contra Judeeos, lib. vii.)This work, from its bearing no traces of Montan-ism, seems to belong to the first part of Tertul-lians life. See also Origen in Lucani, cap. Lhomil. 6. a Lactantius, de mortibns persecutorum, cap. xii. 3 Multi ex Brittonibus Christian! sasvitiain Dio- cletiani timentes ad eos confagerant ut vita funcTornm cellse in templa commutarentur. Bu-chanan, iv. c. xxxv.
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BURNING OF LORD COBHAM. HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION. 615 Catholicism already creeping into life inthe Roman Empire, was not the primitiveevangelism of the apostles. The East andthe South could only give to the North ofwhat they possessed. The mere humanperiod had succeeded to the creative andmiraculous period of the church. Afterthe extraordinary manifestations of theHoly Ghost, which had produced the apos-tolic age, the church had been left to theinward power of the word and of the Com-forter. But Christians did not generallyc omprehend the spiritual life to which theywere called. God had been pleased togive them a divine religion ; and this theygradually assimilated more and more tothe religions of human origin. Instead ofsaying, in the spirit of the Gospel, theword of God first, and through it the doc-trine and the life—the doctrine and thelife, and through them the forms; theysaid, forms first, and salvation by theseforms. They ascribed to bishops a powerwhich belongs only to Hol

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