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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leared it of weeds and brambles, plumbedits depths, and caused its abundant streamsto pour forth on all around. The Reform?,-tion age studied the Greek Testament, whichthe clerical age had almost forgotten,—andthis is its greatest glory. Now the first ex-plorer of this divine source was Erasmus.When attacked by the hierarchy, the leaderof the schools withdrew from the splendidhalls of Henry VIII. It seemed to himthat the new era which he had announcedto the world was rudely interrupted: hecould do nothing more by his conversa-tion for the country of the Tudors. Buthe carried with him those precious leaves,the fruit of his labours—a book whichwould do more than he desired. He hast-ened to Basle, and took up his quarters inFrobenius printing-office,1 where he notonly laboured himself, but made otherslabour. England will soon receive theseed of the new life, and the Reformationis about to begin. 1 Frobenio, ut nullius officinse plus debeantsacrarum studia literarum Erasm. Ep. p. 330.
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TONSTALL BURNING THE BIBI/E JX LONDON. HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION. 665 BOOK XVIII. THE REVIVAL OF THE CHURCH. Four Reforming Powers—Which Reformed England ?—Papal Reform?—Episcopal Reform?—RoyalReform ?—What is required in a legitimate Reform ?—The Share of the Kingly Power.—Shareof the Episcopal Authority—High and Low Church—Political Events—The Greek and LatinNew Testament—Thoughts of Erasmus—Enthusiasm andAnger—Desire of Erasmus—Clamoursof the Priests—Their Attack at Court—Astonishment of Erasmus—His Labours for this Work—Edward Lee—His Character—Lees Tragedy—Conspiracy—Effects of the New Testament in theUniversities—Conversations—A Cambridge Fellow—Bilney buys the New Testament—The FirstPassage—His Conversion—Protestantism, the Fruit of the Gospel—The Vale of the Severn—William Tyndale—Evangelization at Oxford—Bilney teaches at Cambridge—Fryth—Is Conver-sion possible ?—True Consecration—The Reformation has beg

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