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The Great Controversy by Ellen White (Unabridged Version)

For millennia, the powers of good and evil have clashed on the battlefield for the loyalties of men. In the great controversy, at stake are not only individual freedoms, liberty of conscience and freedom of worship, but also fulfillment of Bible prophecy and truth. From eternity past to significant historical moments such as the reformation, the enlightenment and the great awakening, several champions bravely take their stand for a cause greater than themselves. Chequered in religious oppression, infernal deception and crucial victories, this books seeks to connect the dots between Bible prophecy, spiritual mysteries and divine revelations, and traces the progress of world events from cataclysmic trauma to a wonderful culmination.

For millennia, the powers of good and evil have clashed on the battlefield for the loyalties of men. In the great controversy, at stake are not only individual freedoms, liberty of conscience and freedom of worship, but also fulfillment of Bible prophecy and truth. From eternity past to significant historical moments such as the reformation, the enlightenment and the great awakening, several champions bravely take their stand for a cause greater than themselves. Chequered in religious oppression, infernal deception and crucial victories, this books seeks to connect the dots between Bible prophecy, spiritual mysteries and divine revelations, and traces the progress of world events from cataclysmic trauma to a wonderful culmination.

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For a summary of these bulls sent to the archbishop of Canterbury, to King Edward, and<br />

to the chancellor of the University of Oxford, see Merle d'Aubigne, <strong>The</strong> History of the<br />

Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (London: Blackie and Son, 1885), vol. 4, div. 7, p. 93;<br />

August Neander, General<br />

History of the Christian Church (Boston: Crocker and Brester, 1862), vol. 5, pp. 146,<br />

147; George Sargeant, History of the Christian Church (Dallas: Frederick Publishing House,<br />

1948), p. 323; Gotthard V. Lechler, John Wycliffe and His English Precursors (London: <strong>The</strong><br />

Religious Tract Society, 1878), pp. 162-164; Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church<br />

(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915), vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 317.<br />

Page 104. Council of Constance.--A primary source on the Council of Constance is<br />

Richendal Ulrich, Das Concilium so zu Constanz gehalten ist worden (Augsburg, 1483,<br />

Incun.). An interesting, recent study of this text, based on the "Aulendorf Codex," is in the<br />

Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, published <strong>by</strong> Carl Kup, Ulrich von<br />

Richental's Chronicle of the Council of Constance (New York, 1936). See also H. Finke (ed.),<br />

Acta Concilii Constanciensis (1896), vol. 1; Hefele, Conciliengeschichte (9 vols.), vols. 6, 7;<br />

L. Mirbt, Quellen zur Geschichte des Papsttums (1934); Milman, Latin Christianity, vol. 7,<br />

pp. 426-524; Pastor, <strong>The</strong> History of the Popes (34 vols.), vol. 1, p. 197 ff.<br />

More recent publications on the council are K. Zaehringer, Das Kardinal Kollegium auf<br />

dem Konstanzer Konzil (Muenster, 1935); Th. F. Grogau, <strong>The</strong> Conciliar <strong>The</strong>ory as It<br />

Manifested Itself at the Council of Constance (Washington, 1949); Fred A. Kremple, Cultural<br />

Aspects of the Council of Constance and Basel (Ann Arbor, 1955); John Patrick McGowan,<br />

d'Ailly and the Council of Constance (Washington: Catholic University, 1936).<br />

For John Huss see John Hus, Letters, 1904; E. J. Kitts, Pope John XXIII and Master<br />

John Hus (London, 1910); D. S. Schaff, John Hus (1915); Schwarze, John Hus (1915); and<br />

Matthew Spinka, John Hus and the Czech Reform (1941).<br />

Page 234. Jesuitism.--For a statement concerning the origin, the principles, and the<br />

purposes of the "Society of Jesus," as outlined <strong>by</strong> members of this order, see a work entitled<br />

Concerning Jesuits, edited <strong>by</strong> the Rev. John Gerard, S.J., and published in London, 1902, <strong>by</strong><br />

the Catholic Truth Society. In this work it is said, "<strong>The</strong> mainspring of the whole organization<br />

of the Society is a spirit of entire obedience: 'Let each one,' writes St. Ignatius, 'persuade<br />

himself that those who live under obedience ought to allow themselves to be moved and<br />

directed <strong>by</strong> divine Providence through their superiors, just as though they were a dead body,<br />

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