The History Of Protestantism Quotes

“We are come to preserve your religion, and restore and establish your liberties and properties, and therefore we cannot suffer ourselves to doubt but that all true Englishmen will come and concur with us in our desire to secure these nations from Popery and slavery.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“It is not, would lie say, the cowl of St. Francis, nor the frock of St. Dominic, that saves us; it is the righteousness of Christ. It is not the shorn head that makes a holy man, it is the renewed heart.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The doom of the Huguenots taught Elizabeth and the English Protestants that pledges and promises of peace were no security whatever against sudden and wholesale destruction.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“With Catherine Bora there entered a new light into the dwelling of Luther. To sweetness and modesty, she added a more than ordinary share of good sense. A genuine disciple of the Gospel, she became the faithful companion and help-meet of the Reformer in all the labors and trials of his subsequent life.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“He would have escaped the stake, the agony of which is but for a moment, but he would have missed the crown, the glory of which is eternal.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“He had but erected a pulpit on the Seven Hills, from the lofty elevation of which the English Reformer was able to proclaim, in the hearing of all the nations of Europe, that Rome was the Antichrist.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The doctrine of the "real presence," understood in a corporeal sense, he declares to be the offspring of Satan,”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“Nay, he chose this moment to make a forward movement, and to aim more terrible blows at the Papacy than any he had yet dealt it.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“But, replied Claude — as the Protestant polemic at this hour replies in kneeling to the image, or kissing the cross, you do what the second commandment forbids, and what the Scripture condemns as idolatry.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“It is clear from this that transubstantiation was unknown in the ninth century to the Churches at the foot of the Alps.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“Protestant schools throughout Ireland were shut up, or converted into Popish seminaries.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“Equally historic are his last words: "I die with a heart-hatred of Popery, prelacy, and all superstition whatever.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“It is calculated that during the twenty-eight years of persecution in Scotland 18,000 persons suffered death, or hardships approaching it.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The Presbyterians were hunted on the mountains and tracked by the bloodhounds of the Privy Council to the caves and dens where they had hid themselves.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The work of destruction was carried still farther. No pains were spared to render Nonconformists odious. They were branded with vile names, they were loaded with the guilt of murderous plots, their enemies being intent on drawing upon them a tempest of popular vengeance.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The religious people of Scotland followed with their affection and their prayers the pastors who had been torn from them.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“When the 1st of November came, four hundred ministers – more than a third of the Scottish clergy – rose up, and quitting their manses, their churches, and their parishes, went forth with their families into banishment.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“St. Bartholomew's Day, 1662, is one of the great outstanding epochs in the long combat of conscience against power.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“In 1647 the "Westminster Standards" were received by the Church of Scotland as a part of the uniformity of religion to which the three kingdoms had become bound in the Solemn League.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“On one subject they were all united, and that was in their adherence to the doctrines of Calvin.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“They sought to the best of their knowledge and power to build it on the rock of the Scriptures.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“Did the Pope at Rome know what is this day transacting in England, and were this Covenant written on the plaster of the wall over against him, where he sitteth, Belshazzar-like, in his sacrilegious pomp, it would make his heart to tremble, his countenance to change, his head and mitre to shake, his joints to loose, and all his cardinals and prelates to be astonished.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“1. Defense of Reformed Presbyterian religion in Scotland.
2. Promotion of uniformity among the Churches of the three kingdoms.
3. Extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, and all unsound forms of religion.
4. Preservation of Parliaments, and of the liberties of the people.
5. Defense of the sovereign in his maintaining the Reformed religion, the Parliaments, and the liberties of the people.
6. Discovery and punishment of malignants, and disturbers of the peace and welfare of the nations.
7. Mutual defense and protection of each individually, and of all jointly, who were within the bonds of the Covenant.
8. Sincere and earnest endeavor to set an example before the world of public, personal, and domestic virtue and godliness.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The Solemn League was the matured and compendious deliverance of the people of England and Scotland on the great question of civil and religious liberty, as it stood in that age; and it put into shape the practical steps which it behoved the two nations to take,”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The slaughter of the Protestants by the Roman Catholics commenced on the 23rd of October, 1641, and continued for several months; forty thousand, on the lowest estimate, were murdered”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“It will not be denied that nations are bound to defend their religion and liberties; and surely, if they see cause, they may add to the force of this duty the higher sanctions of vows and oaths.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The Puritans were compelled to transport themselves beyond seas, and seek in America the toleration denied them in England.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“In this respect, the Basilicon Doron was his Bible. Kings were gods. All Parliaments, laws, charters, privileges, and rights had their being from the prince, and might at his good pleasure be put out of existence;”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“Take heed therefore, my son, to such Puritans, very pests in the Church and commonweal, whom no deserts can oblige, neither oaths or promises bind; breathing nothing but sedition and calumnies, aspiring without measure, railing without reason, and making their own imaginations, without any warrant of the Word, the square of their conscience.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism

“The two leading doctrines of the Basilicon Doron are,
1st, the Divine right of kings; and,
2nd, the anarchical and destructive nature of Presbyterianism.”
― James Aitken Wylie, The History of Protestantism