Since your Majesty, and the sovereigns now present, require a simple answer, I shall reply thus, without evasion and without vehemence. Unless I be convinced, by the testimony of Scripture, or by evident reason (for I cannot rely on the authority of the... The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth - Page 282by William Roscoe - 1876Full view - About this book
| Joseph Nightingale - 1812 - 588 pages
...present, require a simple answer, I shall reply thus, without evasion and without vehemence. Unless I be convinced, by the testimony of Scripture, or by...authority of the Pope and councils alone, since it appears they have frequently erred and contradicted each other), and unless my conscience be subdued by the... | |
| John Mason Good - 1828 - 542 pages
...since it appears they have jquently erred and contradicted each other,) and unless my conscience : subdued by the word of God, I neither can nor will retract any thing ; :eing that to act against my own conscience is neither safe nor honest." Aer which he added, in his... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...present, require a simple answer, I shall reply thus, without evasion and without vehemence. Unless I be convinced by the testimony of Scripture, or by...authority of the pope and councils alone, since it appears they have frequently erred and contradicted each other), and unless my conscience be subdued by the... | |
| Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 496 pages
...present, require a simple answer, I shall reply thus, without evasion, and without vehemence. Unless I be convinced, by the testimony of Scripture, or by...authority of the Pope and Councils alone, since it appears they have frequently erred and contradicted each other), and unless my conscience be subdued by the... | |
| Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - 1839 - 342 pages
...convinced by the testimony of Scripture or by evident reason, and unless my conscience be prompted by the word of God, I neither can nor will retract...against my own conscience is neither safe nor honest. Here I stand ; I cannot do otherwise ; may God help me ! amen." The last sentence he pronounced in... | |
| 1846 - 444 pages
...am not convinced by the very passages which I have quoted, and so bound in conscience to submit to the word of God, I neither can nor will retract any thing, for it is not safe for a Christian to speak against his conscience." Then looking around on the assembly... | |
| 1847 - 624 pages
...am not convinced hy the very passages which I have quoted, and so hound in conscience to suhmit to the word of God, I neither can nor will retract any thing, for it is not safe for a christian to speak against his conscience.' Then looking round on the assemhly... | |
| Reuben Weiser - 1848 - 842 pages
...from the word of God, are wrong, and that my conscience is not subject (ie under the influence of) the word of God. I neither can nor will retract any thing I have done, because it is neither safe nor prudent to say any thing against one's conscience." Then... | |
| Stanley J. Grenz - 2002 - 136 pages
...consistently with Luther's position, as he purportedly outlined it for the Diet of Worms: Unless I am convinced by the testimony of Scripture or by evident reason — for I confide neither in the Pope or a council alone, since it is certain that they have erred and contradicted... | |
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