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The Principles of the Westminster [confession of Faith] Standards Persecuting
The Principles of the Westminster Standards Persecuting - confession of Faith Author:William Marshall General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. PERSECUTING PRINCIPLES OF THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS PRIOR TO THE ERA OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY. GLANCE at the principles of the Scottish Reformers prior to the era of the Westminster Assembly will materially conduce to an intelligent and satisfactory decision of the question at issue. The Protestant Reformers in leaving Rome did not leave all Romanism behind them. In particular, they brought with them the persecuting principles of Rome, and worked them freely and vigorously in support of the Reformed faith. They changed the Pope but not the popedom, as our Presbyterian fathers were in the habit of phrasing it; but the merit of this discovery does not belong to them. They were anticipated in it by men on the Continent, who, like Coornhert, were fully alive to this most grievous error of the Protestant Reformers, and sincerely deplored it " Admitting that the Protestant leaders had done good service by exposing and rebuking the Popish errors, he maintained that each of them, in his own practice, lent his authority to the gravest error of all, the suppression of liberty of conscience; and, consciously or unconsciously, was bent on setting up a new papacy in favour of his own opinion." Notes to the Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles V. By Sir William Stirling-maxwell, Bart "Rightfully and nobly did the Protestant Reformers claim religious liberty for themselves; but they resolutely refused to concede it to others. At Worms Luther said for himself, ' Unless I be convinced by Scripture or by reason, I can and will retract nothing; for to act against my conscience is neither safe nor h...« less