The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.: With a View of the ... 2
The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.: With a View of the ... 2
William Robertson
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If Luther^s firft departure from the dodrines of the church had inftantly drawn upon him tte weight of its cenfures, the dread of thefe might have reftrained the eleftor of Saxdny from protefl:- ing him, might have deterred the people from liftening to his difcourfes, or even might have overawed Luther himfelf; and his name, like that of many good men before his time, would now have been known to the world only £or htf * Scckcnd. 59. honeft EMPfiROR CHARLES V. i^t kontft but iB-tiined, «ffoh to... correft- the eerujijjtioift » ^o k of the Romifli chunrfh - On the othef hiintlj if v^^^^.^ the pope had early teftified fome difpleafure with '1*^^ the vices andexoefla^^ of fh^ friars^ wha had been * . , employed |ia puWiiWilg Indulgences ; if he. ha4 ^ forbidden the mentioiiing of controverted points in difcouries addrefled to the peopk 5 . if • he had enjoined the difputants on' both .fides to be filent ; if he had been careful not to ' rifiq[ue the credit of the church by defining • articles which had hitherto been left undetermined { Luther Would, probably, have ftopt fhort at his firft difcoveries : he would not' have been forced, in felf-defenqe, to venture upon new ground, and the whole controverfy might poffibly havfe died away infeniibly ; or, being confined entirely to the fchools, might have been carried on with as little detriment to the peace and unity of the Romifh church, as that which the Francifcans maintain with the Dominicans, concerning the immaculate conception, or that between 'the Janfenifts and Jefuits concerning the operations of grace.
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