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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Harper Subjects: Puritans Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) New England Massachusetts Architecture / Religious Buildings History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christian Church / History 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. WHAT THE REFORMATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY DID FOR CHURCH POLITY. The great Reformation in the sixteenth century was an attempt to recover the primitive Gospel. Its success, so far as it was successful, resulted from a concurrence of various forces adverse to that huge system, compacted of superstition, scholastic theology, and spiritual despotism, the growth of fourteen hundred years, which had usurped the name and place of Christianity. The revival of learning, the invention of printing, and the general movement toward a new stage of civilization, were among the influences which contributed to the result. What was, at first, the experience of individual souls struggling with the great question, How shall man be just with God, driven back from tradition to the Scriptures, and finding rest in Christ the one mediator between God and men, became, at that juncture, a new announcement of the primitive Gospel. As in the first century, so in the sixteenth, the Gospel, to wit, that God is in Christ reconciling the world to himself, was the power that took hold of human souls to bring them out of darkness into light, and out of bondage into the liberty of the sons of God. Agitation ensued, opposition, conflict, papal excommunication, and at last a permanent revolt of Protestant nations against the power enthroned at Rome.1...

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