This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... usual dispensation. A heresy which thus struck at the power of Rome must be extinguished; the whip of persecution was instantly brandished; the culprits were summoned before the magistrates, and were cast into prison. The Swiss Reformer now came forward to defend his principles. In a tract on the ' ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... usual dispensation. A heresy which thus struck at the power of Rome must be extinguished; the whip of persecution was instantly brandished; the culprits were summoned before the magistrates, and were cast into prison. The Swiss Reformer now came forward to defend his principles. In a tract on the ' Observation of Lent, ' he laid down the unquestionable doctrines, --that with God mercy is better than sacrifice, --that Christianity has abolished all distinction of holy and unholy food, and that the true fast is that from sin. He shewed that Scripture and common sense alike left every one at liberty to fast or not, as he found it desirable to his pursuits, his health, or his Christian edification. After throwing into merited contempt the idea that one food is more acceptable to God than another, or that the soul is the holier for the stomach's receiving a fish rather than an egg, he founds his rule on the necessities and circumstances of society. 'Let the opulent fast if they will; it may form a suitable interruption to a life of habitual indulgence. But the workmen in your manufactories, the labourers in your fields, find in the hardships and privations of their lives enough to mortify the flesh. The Romish regulations for those fasts, were unknown to the majority of those very Fathers by whom they are said to be founded. They are still unknown to large bodies of Christianity throughout the world. The true purpose for which they were adopted, and for which they are sustained, --is, by the payment for dispensations, to raise a large revenue for the See of Rome.' The controversial war was now declared. Hugh of Landenberg, Bishop of Constance, published a rescript to his clergy, exhorting them to adhere with increased fidelity to the ' Mother Church.'...
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