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The History of the Church of Christ, From the Diet of Augsburg 1530 to the Eighteenth Century
The History of the Church of Christ From the Diet of Augsburg 1530 to the Eighteenth Century Author:Henry Stebbing General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: T. Cadell Subjects: History / Europe / General Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / Protestant Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christianity / Denominations Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: Th... more »is is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. IV. STATE OF PARTIES -- CONDUCT OF THE EMPEROR REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PROTESTANTS MEETING OF DIET AT SPIRE CONFERENCE AT HAGUENAU ITS RESULTS. WHILE the Protestants suffered no small anxiety from the position in which they were placed, neither the Emperor nor the Pope gained any advantage from the policy which had been adopted by their respective courts. The latter could not act without the consent of the former, and he saw himself bound hand and foot by the continued progress of the Turks. If a Roman Catholic witness is to be believed, the difficulties which thus stood in the way of these potentates were to be overcome by expedients which savoured of the worst spirit of the most petty courts. Pallavicino has given at full length the document on which this opinion is founded. According to the reasoning of the Emperor, peace with the Protestants was only expedient so long as his forces were separated by the difficulties of his present position. " Let tranquillity be restored," was the purport of his remarks; " we will then throw off the temporary disguise, and compel the malcontents to recognise again both the power of the state and the power of the Roman court." On the arrival of Charles in Flanders, the deputies of the Protestants appeared before him with an address which contained a long and earnest recital of A. D. 1540-6. ,, . , . , . ...« less