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. 1894 Excerpt: ...The Pietists were not a party in the Reformed Church, as in the Lutheran, but a part of her inmost life and history. Thus Thelemau, says: "The conventicles which brought so much blessing on the Evangelical Church, are also an original Reformed institution." Krummacher, the great court preacher of Germany, says of 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. 1894 Excerpt: ...The Pietists were not a party in the Reformed Church, as in the Lutheran, but a part of her inmost life and history. Thus Thelemau, says: "The conventicles which brought so much blessing on the Evangelical Church, are also an original Reformed institution." Krummacher, the great court preacher of Germany, says of the Reformed Church of the Lower Rhine: "Inward Christianity was the watchword of the faithful, spiritual experience, the life hidden with Christ, the death of self. Christ in us, were the catchwords of their theology." Indeed, so thoroughly was Pietism the basis of the Reformed Church, and also her highest development, that a prominent Reformed minister once said to me, "In the Lutheran Church she was a school, in the Reformed Church she was the Church, and not a part of it." Hence in the Reformed Church those who held Pietistic views, were called by a different name from those in the Lutheran. In the Lutheran Church they were called Pietists, s Kirchenzeitung of Germany, 1654, page 97. t Church History, Vol. IV., page 111. Life of Lampe, page 16, note. PIETISM, A REFORMED INSTITUTION. 311 in the Reformed they were called Die Feinen--the fine or the pious. That Pietism is originally and truly Reformed, is proved not only by her best Church historians, whom we have quoted, but also by the individual facts of her history. The Reformed Church always contained it, but it was fully developed only by the latter part of the seventeenth century. And yet the first century was pietistic. What was the Reformation itself but a great revival in piety, and so Christian experience became prominent. But after the freshness and earnestness of the early Reformation had worn off, then came a period of coldness and formalism, when either...
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