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A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…
A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of divinity, in a method entirely new. / By the late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New Jersey[.]
Boston: printed by Draper & Folsom, 1782
A HISTORY Of the WORK of REDEMPTION. › Period 3 › Part 2 › Section 1
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(3) The Reformation has often been opposed by open wars and invasions. So in the beginning of the reformation, the Emperor of Germany, to suppress the Reformation, declared war with the Duke of Saxony, and the principal men who favoured and received Luther's doctrine. But they could not obtain their end; they could not suppress the Reformation. For the s•me end, the King of Spain maintained a long war with Holland and the Low Countries in the century before last. But those cruel wars issued greatly to the disadvantage of the Romish church, as they occasioned the […] up of one of the most powerful Protestant states in Europe, which, next to Great Britain, is the chief barrier of the Protestant religion. And the design of the Spanish invasion of England in Queen Elisabeth's time, was to suppress and •oo• out the Reformed religion; and therefore they brought in their fleet all manner of instruments of cruelty wherewith to torture the Protestants who would not renounce the Protestant religion. But their designs were totally baffled, and their mighty fleet in a great measure ruined.
(3) The Reformation has often been opposed by open wars and invasions. So in the beginning of the reformation, the Emperor of Germany, to suppress the Reformation, declared war with the Duke of Saxony, and the principal men who favoured and received Luther's doctrine. But they could not obtain their end; they could not suppress the Reformation. For the s•me end, the King of Spain maintained a long war with Holland and the Low Cou••ries in the century before last. But those cruel wars issued greatly to the disadvantage of the Romish church, as they occasioned the 〈…〉 up of one of the most powe•ful Protestant states in Europe, which, next to G•eat Britian, is the chief barrier of the Protestant religion. And the design of the Spanish invasion of England in Queen Elisabeth's time, was to suppress and •oo• out the Reformed religion; and therefore they brought in their fleet all manner of instruments of cruelty wherewith to torture the Protestants who would not renounce the Protestant religion. But their designs were totally baffled, and their mighty fleet in a great measure ruined.