History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

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Divine truth, and as respects that class of questions confessedly in their full conception and reconcilement beyond the reach of the human faculties, God's sovereignty and man's free agency, the two great chiefs, whatever differences may have come to exist between their respective followers, were at one in their theology. Luther was quite as Calvinistic as Calvin himself. The Belgic Creed is notable in another respect. It first saw the light, not in any synod or Church assembly, for as yet the Church of the Low Countries as an organised body did not exist; it had its beginning with a few private believers and preachers in the Netherlands. This is a very natural and very beautiful genesis of a creed, and it admirably illustrates the real object and end of the Reformers in framing their Confessions. They compiled them, as we see these few Flemish teachers doing, to be a help to themselves and to their fellow-believers in understanding the Scriptures, and to show the world what they believed to be the truth as set forth in the Bible. It 120
did not enter into their minds that they were forging a yoke for the conscience, or a fetter for the understanding, and that they were setting up a barrier beyond which men were not to adventure in the inquiry after truth. Nothing was further from the thoughts of the Reformers than this; they claimed no lordship over the consciences of men. The documents which they compiled and presented to the world they styled not a decree, or a rise, much less a creation, but a Confession, and they issued their Confessions under this reservation, that the Bible alone possessed inherent authority, that it alone was complete and perfect, and that their confession was only an approximation, to be reviewed, altered, amended, enlarged, or abbreviated according as believers advanced in the more precise, full, and accurate understanding of the meaning of the Spirit speaking in the Word. We have nowhere found the views of the Reformers on this point so admirably set forth as in the celebrated John a Lasco's preface to his book on the Sacraments; and as this is a matter on which great misapprehension has been spread abroad, we shall here give his words. Speaking of the union of the 121
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HISTORY OF PROTESTANTISM IN THE NET
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and partly by a tremendous inundati
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The youth of these three tribes was
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and the Frank, the Netherlanders, f
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Northern Europe, and along the shor
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eminds us of the valor of the Swiss
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and been reduced to vassalage, had
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Chapter 2 Introduction of Protestan
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deference, and to the civil and cri
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with the seeds of Gospel truth. Hen
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the mop... Embrace the Cross and th
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the consequence of this was that th
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They were the clearing-house of the
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these were publicly read twice ever
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departing from the great towns; the
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Chapter 3 Antwerp: Its Confessors a
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The noise was caused by his townsme
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sold and delivered the Lord; but we
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and in July of the same year yet an
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otherwise contravened the former ed
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life and doctrine into greater acco
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It was an aggravation of these edic
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interpretation which he is said to
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hat, with flaps like a fool's cap.
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11. Brandt, vol. 1., pp. 57, 58. 12
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which the greatest monarch, of his
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voyages by sea; he had fought four
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mounted on thin legs. Nature had no
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eard. His service in camps has bron
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colourless almost as the marble. Th
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Chapter 5 Philip Arranges the Gover
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egan straightway to blaze. The fire
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established a court in Flanders tha
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intensified the alarm and anger of
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Page 135 and 136: might accord them some freedom in m
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Page 149 and 150: very great sum; the said Lord of Gu
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Page 153 and 154: Tully, De Legibus, in his youth, th
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of the authorities had broken out,
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Grange was this day to occupy the p
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was childless. He had been a monk,
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eloquent preachers and erudite divi
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of the forenoon; the excitement on
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lightning-power of his words held h
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asked them whether they would suppo
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Footnotes: 1. Laval, vol. 3., p. 14
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afterwards see, chose to consider t
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complete success. As they marched o
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destroying host the words of the pr
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the pencil. The crowning glory of A
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device which they thought would gui
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within the walls of Antwerp, having
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their own exit, locking the great d
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only, it extended to the other chur
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or that others fed their eyes with
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the taking away and destroying of i
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the clergy in many cases were relie
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Nor can the destruction of these im
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grand disruptions of the bonds of a
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18. Motley, 1., 282. 19. Hooft, lib
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see that the Reformed did not come
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great weight of his personal charac
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ead one way in Brussels, it was mad
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the Inquisition abolished, as the k
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of the inhabitants of that importan
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dispensing the Sacraments. Garrison
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and Noircarmes now commenced to bom
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cheerfully to meet it as if they ha
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igotry had made hard as the nether
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whose very symbols it had so recent
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Chapter 13 The Council of Blood "WH
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Dendermonde, in order to concert th
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of the persecutors to apprehend and
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fellowship:[3] they were sisters ev
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quenched the fire of his spirit. In
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of the mountains to Savoy. Continui
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delay, opened his career of tyranny
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now made compelled 20,000 more to f
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said or thought that the Tribunal o
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All was now ready; Alva had erected
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disappoint the expectations of the
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should aid any subject of the Nethe
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6. Strada, bk. 6., p. 30. Le Clerq,
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were confiscated, and sentence of b
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His first care was to raise the nec
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for the war to be waged for these o
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us march," said Aremberg, his anger
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were now come. They had lain nine m
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was covered with black cloth; ninet
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The dismal tragedy ended, Alva was
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Chapter 15 Failure of William's Fir
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way of paying it, for when the effe
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women were being every day hanged -
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spoken in circumstances so awful, a
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hope of his country -- when he avow
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ecame mutinous, and the prince had
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enacted.[6] It was in the midst of
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4. Brandt, vol. 1., p. 275. 5. Ibid
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him only the more intolerant and fi
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that one-half their value had passe
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The carrying out of this order nece
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escape; but unhappily the burgomast
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might whisper a few words of encour
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the defense of the Reformed religio
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whom William himself should grant c
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opened her harbours to Flemish pira
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fighting with the inhabitants about
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Spaniards. Bossu led his troops tow
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(April 12th), the Lord's Supper was
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thorn out of his foot," the conflag
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we find their great leader remindin
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themselves as at one with the princ
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Chapter 17 William's Second Campaig
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of 16,000 ducats. Tirlemont, Termon
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were watering with their blood and
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the gallows; murder and spoliation
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Antwerp, to be converted into money
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eduction of the revolted towns in t
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espected an oath nor spared an enem
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Holland should be waging its great
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with a salutary terror of his arms,
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Chapter 18 The Siege of Haarlem BOT
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emboldened to do soldiers' duty at
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ditch and deliver the assault. Gree
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label affixed: -- "The tax of the t
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implements, mixed horribly with the
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mangled and mutilated bodies. The S
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defend their city. Meanwhile they g
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neither men nor provisions could no
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expedition William wished to conduc
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would be spared and all in it pardo
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the amnesty were, of course, execut
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triumph of his cause; and without a
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4. Hooft, 7. 293. 5. Ibid. 6. Thaun
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population divided between the prin
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storm. They advanced. in overwhelmi
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afternoon; it was now seven o'clock
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efore the ocean. The humiliations o
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de Medina Coeli, governor in his ro
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eginning that the policy of Alva ha
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celebration in private of the Romis
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deprivation of his civil rights on
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ight to repel it by the sword; if i
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collected, a fleet of seventy-five
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uilt such great hopes. When the sec
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Spaniards that they feared to do so
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felt all the more at this moment, s
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een done, and their achievements ac
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were sinking with their crews, and
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time of the siege the city had a nu
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he found it so hard to win by the s
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Chapter 21 The Siege of Leyden FOR
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Putting their spades into the great
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meet, but they never dreamt of havi
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famine, nor pestilence, nor death a
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everywhere without success. The Zea
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their torches and lanterns, they fl
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wind shifted into the north-east, a
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Spaniard was still in the land, and
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to obtain from the justice of Phili
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Jesus."[2] A few guides well acquai
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Duyveland. So far this most extraor
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had not a single guelden to send th
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pleasure. The State Council, into w
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the citadel, with its garrison. The
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were struggling in the area below.
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een the gayest and wealthiest upon
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which is at once the consequence an
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Footnotes: 1. Brandt, vol. 1., pp.
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to all offices; he disposed of all
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just as the Popish Powers had been
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Medici-Valois house that ruled that
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of the devil;" whilst another Luthe
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honor of a common country, and to e
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Provinces were to be finally regula
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Batavin Republic, placed them on th
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crept in along with the new territo
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Utrecht," which, without dissolving
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such lofty spirits as William, and
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he found himself in possession of t
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This was the third time that libert
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his country. He accepted Matthias,
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considerable army from the neighbor
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who has taken up arms against him,
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conveyed to the river's edge, the m
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Prince of Orange in Brussels, and t
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the Provinces, and possibly the dis
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and Zealand, where the Popish worsh
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eceived an augmentation of strength
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2. Brandt, vol. 1., p. 333 3. Benti
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Chapter 25 Abjuration of Philip, an
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Provinces, and restore the supremac
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States of Holland, Zealand, Utrecht
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those that shed their brilliance on
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to this proposal. They would agree
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of his debts, the restitution of hi
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and make him a mark for all the mur
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not of one nor of a few of those li
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This Apology was read in a meeting
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deposed, especially by virtue of th
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so awful and protracted a combat; i
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Chapter 26 Assassination of William
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Medici. The Duke of Anjou, the elec
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Brabant and Flanders came to the Pr
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ear on this narrow and obscure thea
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him in his hours of darkness and so
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and insignificant exterior, had tha
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three balls, one of which passed th
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straight on through all the intrica
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which there is a copy in the Royal
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Scriptures are being searched; it i
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that threatened speedily to make th
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into one channel, and forms hencefo
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principal kinds: 1. That of Pastors
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objections have been offered -- at
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leprosy quickly extends to the Stat
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They were to be selected from their
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government of the country. But in t
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duty, they said, was "to hinder tho
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acknowledgement. Nevertheless, he r
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estored; there was still war betwee
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latter is regulated by law. The Pop
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Roman Catholic Provinces -- in all
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This state of matters led to the ad
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substitute for worship, or which it
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statues some springs had been found
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Chapter 29 The Synod of Dort WILLIA
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panic were over, the spirit of the
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The infant States next repaired to
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accomplish nothing. His prudence fa
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industry and manufacturing skill wh
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made this attempt. There have been
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After his death, his disciple Simon
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own fault, and lose faith wholly an
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Carlstadt and Luther on the other,
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the State, strove to put an end to
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Carleton, Bishop of Llandaff; Josep
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time, that himself and his brethren
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it had been held by the first Refor
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into deep and hidden things; it was
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engenders, made their homes bright
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the States, after asserting their o
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upon that colossal fabric which for
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that his own prestige as a soldier
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example that they will take care to
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And with every increase of their po
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Peninsula, whereas in the Southern
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Footnotes: 1. Muller, Universal His
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