Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...the laity, marriage to the pastors, and the article of prayer to saints appeared of little importance. But they stopped at three doctrines which the evangelicals could not yield. Confusio et perturbatio religionum. Corp. Ref. ii. 382. + Ut aula ministerium in ecclesia ordinet bonis non videtur consultum. Ibid. 362. X Video postea miilto intolerabiliorem futuram tyrannidem quam unquam antca fuisso. Ibid. 334. Si mea causa hajc tempestas coacta est, me statim velut Jonam in mare ejiciat. Ibid. 382. 242 FAILURE OF CONCILIATION. Buffered because four or five theologians checked the triumphal progress of the conqueror of Pavia. " What!" said ' they to him, " a few days sufficed to overthrow the King of France and the pope, and you cannot succeed with these gospellers!" They determined on breaking off the conferences. Eck, irritated because neither stratagem nor terror had been effectual, could not master himself in the presence of the Protestants. " Ah!" exclaimed he, at the moment of separation, "why did not the emperor, when he entered Germany, make a general inquest about the Lutherans? He would then have heard arrogant answers, witnessed monsters of heresy, and his zeal suddenly taking fire, would have led him to destroy all this faction But now Bruck's mild language and Melancthon's concessions prevent him from getting so angry as the cause requires." Eck said these words with a smile; but they expressed all his thoughts. The colloquy terminated on the 30th August. The Romish states made their report to the emperor. They were face to face, three steps only from each other, without either side being able to approach nearer, even by a hair's breadth. Thus, then, Melancthon had failed; and his..."
