Excerpt from The American Church Monthly, Vol. 2: From July, 1857, to January, 1858 Hence arose the notion, of which it is so diflicult to disabuse the minds of our English cousins, and, in fact, of Europeans generally, that the civil authority is the natural counterpoise to, and protection from the papal power. While the mm and me kings acted in union against the Reformers, the Theo logical truths which they taught seemed in danger of being trampled outas, in fact, they were in more countries than one. But when the ...
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Excerpt from The American Church Monthly, Vol. 2: From July, 1857, to January, 1858 Hence arose the notion, of which it is so diflicult to disabuse the minds of our English cousins, and, in fact, of Europeans generally, that the civil authority is the natural counterpoise to, and protection from the papal power. While the mm and me kings acted in union against the Reformers, the Theo logical truths which they taught seemed in danger of being trampled outas, in fact, they were in more countries than one. But when the pr'mces found it convenient to sever themselvesfrom the pope the Reformers were able to disseminate their views under their protection. Thus what may be called the political and the theological Reformations went on together in close alliance, and each derived a support which, humanly speak ing, was valuable from the other. By their joint ch'orte the papal power was, in many places, put down; and wherever that occurred, the mediaeval theology shared its fate, or was at least reduced to a small number of adherents. All this was not done without a violent contest in which not only the powers of the human mind, but the passions of the human heart were excited to the utmost activity. The same result followed, as has always been found to follow in similar casw. There was on all the points in dispute a tendency to go too far. As to the political power of the popes, taking the phrase in its strictest sense, it was not easy to go too far in its denial since it has no foundation in right or truth. But it was intimately connected with his ecclesiastical power, for which, and by means of which, it had been built up. By ecclesiastical power, in this connection, is to be understood the power of the pope over the Church, and that rather as connected with external things than with doctrine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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