The Life of Luther: Embracing an Account of the Early Progress of the Reformation (Classic Reprint)

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In endeavouring to discover the means employed by Providence to effect this sudden change, our at tention. Is directed chiefly to two things - the state of the times, and the character of him who was made the principal agent in the cause. In regard to the former, the revival of learning, recent as it was, had operated sufficiently to render the under standings of men equal to the comprehension of an improved doctrine. 'the progress of civilization, though not rapid, was snflicient to demonstrate the grossness of many of the practices of the Romish church. The season for crushing the advocates of a new creed by treachery and assassination was past. Germany and a considerable part of Europe were in a condition to appreciate and to welcome that in formation, which, a century before, would have been branded, by general consent, as a dangerous and damnable heresy. Nor must it be forgotten that the prince, under whose protection Luther was. Destined to act, took greatly the lead of the majorit y of his cotemporaries in discretion and sound judg ment.

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