 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - Dissenters, Religious - 1879 - 408 pages
...Hallam's judicial words are unanswerable : " Persecution is the deadly sin of the Reformed Church, that which cools every honest man's zeal for their...proportion as his reading becomes more extensive."* Let us rejoice in the ampler atmosphere that men breathe now, and in the clearer light in which men... | |
 | S. Hubert Burke - Great Britain - 1883 - 464 pages
...only in degree, and in degree there was much less difference than we are apt to believe. Persecution is the deadly original sin of the Reformed Churches...proportion as his reading becomes more extensive. The Lutheran princes and people in Germany constantly refused to tolerate the use of the Mass, as an... | |
 | Sir Aubrey De Vere - 1884 - 388 pages
...only in degree ; and in degree there was 'much less difference than we are apt to believe. Persecution is the deadly original sin of the Reformed Churches;...proportion as his reading becomes more extensive. The Lutheran princes and cities in Germany constantly refused to tolerate the use of the mass as an... | |
 | William Alexander (abp. of Armagh.) - Sermons, English - 1885 - 376 pages
...only in degree, and in degree there was much less difference than we are apt to believe. Persecution is the deadly original sin of the Reformed Churches...proportion as his reading becomes more extensive." He who reads Hallam's instances and contradicts him, is a wiser or a bolder man than I am. Though he... | |
 | S. Hubert Burke - Great Britain - 1893 - 454 pages
...only in degree, and in degree there was much less difference than we are apt to believe. Persecution w the deadly original sin of the Reformed Churches ;...proportion as his reading becomes more extensive. The Lutheran princes and people in Germany constantly refused to tolerate the use of the Mass, as an... | |
 | Alfred Young - Christian sociology - 1894 - 660 pages
...same judgment upon Protestantism : " Persecution is the deadly original sin of the Reformed churches, which cools every honest man's zeal for their cause...proportion as his reading becomes more extensive" (Constit. Hist., vol. i. chap, ii.) Modern Protestantism has not a whit improved. " Hopital and Lord... | |
 | 1896 - 252 pages
....'HMJL'AM, who remarks : " Persecution' ia; the deadly' original sin of the Reformed ChurcHers/that which cools every honest man's zeal for their cause,...in proportion as his reading becomes more extensive " (Constit. Hist, of Eng. vol. i. ch. 3). It is perfectly true that the royal tyrants named by Macaulay,... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - Isle of Wight (England) - 1896 - 730 pages
...which, again to use the language of Hallam, was that ' deadly original sin of the reformed churches which cools every honest man's zeal for their cause,...proportion as his reading becomes more extensive.' Even in that 'extraordinary boy,' as a contemporary writer calls Edward VI, was a strain of the tiger,... | |
 | William Byrne - 1899 - 878 pages
...believed on the subject, leaned rather to proscription than to tolerance. " Persecution," Hallatn says, " is the deadly original sin of the Reformed churches,...in proportion as his reading becomes more extensive ; " and Lecky, developing the same view at length, lays down the statement that " Persecution among... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - Reformation - 1899 - 658 pages
...Lord Treasurer ' furthwith to cutte of the Scottish Queene's head.' ' Persecution,' says Hallam, ' is the deadly original sin of the Reformed Churches...for their cause in proportion as his reading becomes extensive.' Lutherans, Calvinists, and Anglican Reformers in the reign of Edward VI., he goes on to... | |
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Persecution is the deadly original sin of the reformed churches ; that which cools every honest man's zeal for their cause, in proportion as his reading becomes more extensive. 
