Luther Or The Spirit Of The Reformation A Poem

Author : Robert Montgomery
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330079805
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Luther or the Spirit of the Reformation written by Robert Montgomery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Luther or the Spirit of the Reformation "Let us not lose the Bible, but with all diligence and in God's fear read and preach the same; for if that remaineth, flourisheth, and be taught, then all is safe; she is the head and empress of all faculties and arts: if divinity falleth, then whatsoever remaineth besides, is nothing worth." - Luther. Some four years since, the Times newspaper was the heroic advocate of the sacred principles of the Reformation; and from day to day sent forth leading articles, not more distinguished for the lofty vehemence of their language, than for the scriptural logic wherewith they were enforced. From among these, we select some remarks which that journal made on the growing prevalence of Romanism. "Front the swarms of unsuspected emissaries of Popery now in this kingdom-wearing all sorts of disguises - working themselves into every social circle - conducting or overlooking the liberal press-commanding access to families as teachers of French, Italian, German, painting, drawing, and music-many of them instilling their diluted poison as literary redacteurSy compilers of school-books, and penny magazine writers - and all of them working indefatigably, not only in disseminating a muffled Romanism, by means of tracts, historical perversions, and romantic tales, and by decoying the thoughtless and inexperienced to attend the imposing formalities of Popish worship; our persuasion, our strong persuasion is, that unless this abominable confederacy be seasonably defeated, all the highest hopes and energies of our country must eventually be trampled to the dust by the cloven hoof of Rome. It Will not do to tell us that our apprehensions are merely visionary. Too well do we know to the contrary. And, accordingly, being thoroughly assured that this vile conspiracy against the religion, liberties, and property of England, need only be known in order to be defeated, we take every opportunity of unmasking these diabolical intrigues, and of placing before our country the evidences of its impending dangers." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.