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. 1844 Excerpt: ... this longexpected change, by opposing with undaunted resolution his single force to the torrent of Papal ambition and despotism. This remarkable man was Martin Lulher, of Eisleben, in Saxony, f an Augustinian monk, and professor of theology in the university which had been erected at Wittenberg a few years before.' It ...
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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. 1844 Excerpt: ... this longexpected change, by opposing with undaunted resolution his single force to the torrent of Papal ambition and despotism. This remarkable man was Martin Lulher, of Eisleben, in Saxony, f an Augustinian monk, and professor of theology in the university which had been erected at Wittenberg a few years before.' It was this interesting people, after they had thrown off the yoke of Rome, and, through the instrumentality of their countryman Luther and others, received the pure and unadulterated word of God, that constituted themselves a reformed, an evangelical church, which has been denominated Lutheran.' " In the year 1507, at the age of twenty-four years, in the seclusion of monastic life, Luther, by what we call accident, but, in reality, by Clovis belonged to the German, Salian tribe; Hcnkc, vol. i. p. 387. t Mosheim, voL iii. p. 25. t Schmuckcr's Portraiture, pp. 12-14. the ordering of Him whose empire is universal, found among the musty tomes of the convent library a long-neglected Latin Bible. This immediately became his daily counsellor. The light of inspired truth soon disclosed to him the errors and deficiency of the Romish creed, even before he could plainly discern the more excellent way. His attainments placed him, the following year, in a situation which compelled him to acquire a knowledge of the Hebrew language. In the year 1517, while engaged in the performance of his duties of a professor and ecclesiastic, particularly at the confessional, he discovered the influence of Rome's corrupt system of indulgences. He refused absolution to those who pleaded them as a substitute for penance. This of course led them to complain to the friar from whom they had procured them. A violent controversy ensued between the friar and Luther, which ulti...
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