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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. 1869. Excerpt: ... LECTURE III. PROTESTANTISM. "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord."--Isaiah i. l8. "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures."--Acts xvii. 2. Is Protestantism a failure? This is the question before us,--pressed upon our attention by strong currents of thought from various directions, but all tending powerfully towards.one point; and demanding from all Protestants a serious review of their position. In my line of reply I have already noticed two points: 1st, The Christianity of Jesus Christ; 2nd, Sacerdotalism as a growth thereupon; and now, in the 3rd place, I come to consider Protestantism:--What it is; its purpose; its failure; and its success. This is a large subject, and in a pulpit discourse can be treated only in a brief way. On behalf of God's truth, in the sincere love thereof, rather than of our own preju dices, and in perfect charity to all, let me bespeak your candid attention. Three hundred and forty years ago a diet assembled at Spires, called by Charles the Fifth, then emperor of Germany.' Religious disputes stirred the land, and the diet was called to pass upon the matter. It pronounced against farther agitation on religious questions, and condemned the attempt made to reform the Church. Against this decision a formal and solemn Protest was made by six princes, and the deputies of thirteen imperial towns, present at the diet. This Protest made them Protestants. To reach the meaning of this Protest we must go back to another diet held about eight years before--I mean the diet at Worms. Charles was then the newly elected emperor, and with the view of quieting disturbances which had been raised on Church questions,--disturbances which had culminated the year...
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