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

John Lorence Von Mosheim

9780332166445: Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 4 of 4: Ancient and Modern (Classic Reprint)

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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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