Luther and the Reformation

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Joseph Augustus Seiss. Luther and the Reformation

Luther and the Reformation

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PREFACE

LUTHER AND THE REFORMATION

THE FOUNDING OF PENNSYLVANIA

I. THE HISTORY AND THE MEN

II. THE PRINCIPLES ENTHRONED

FOOTNOTES

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Joseph Augustus Seiss

The Life-Springs of Our Liberties

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In the early periods of the mediæval Church her missionaries came to these fiery warriors of the North and followed the conquests of Charlemagne, to teach them that they had souls, that there is a living and all-knowing God at whose judgment-bar all must one day stand to give account, and that it would then be well with the believing, brave, honest, true, and good, and ill with cowards, profligates, and liars. It was a simple creed, but it took fast hold on the Germanic heart, to show itself in sturdy power in the long after years.

This creed, in unabated force, descended to Luther's parents, and lived and wrought in them as a controlling principle. They were also strict to render it the same in their children.

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