Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th CenturiesJones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew)
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Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew)
Mysticism; Reformers
_Von der goettlichen Kindschaft und Herrlichkeit des ganzen Sones
Gottes_ (1538).
_Ermanunge zum wahren und selig machende Erkaenntnis Christi_ (1539).
_Konfession und Erklaerung von Erkaenntnus Christi und seiner goettlichen
Herrlichkeit_ (1540).
[14] _Schriften_, i. p. 664. See also p. 662.
[15] For the doctrine of deification in Irenaeus see Harnack, _Hist. of
Dogma_, ii. pp. 230-318.
[16] See _Schriften_, i. p. 768.
[17] _Ibid._ i. p. 767 a.
[18] _Schriften_, i. p. 767 a.
[19] _Die heilige Schrift_. x. d.
[20] _Ibid._ cviii. c.
[21] _Ibid._ ii. b.
[22] _Die heilige Schrift._ vi. and vii.
[23] _Vom Worte Gottes_, xxii. c.
[24] _Die heilige Schrift._ iv. b.
[25] _Catechismus vom Wort des Creuetses, vom Wort Gottes, und vom
Underscheide des Worts des Geists und Buchstabens._
[26] _Die heilige Schrift._ iv. c.
[27] _Schriften_, i. p. 725.
[28] _Ibid._ i. p. 634.
[29] _Schriften_, i. p. 380.
[30] See _ibid._ ii. p. 421.
[31] _Corpus Schwenck._ i. p. 295.
[32] _Schriften_, iii. A.
[33] _Schriften_, ii. p. 290.
[34] _Schriften_, ii. p. 785.
[35] _Ibid._ i. p. 768 b.
[36] _Schriften_, i. p. 513. For a criticism of the legalism of the
Anabaptists see _ibid._ i. pp. 801-808.
[37] The details are given in Friederich Roth's _Augsburgs
Reformations-Geschichte_ (Muenchen, 1907), iii. p. 245 ff.
[38] _A Preservative or Treacle against the Poyson of Pelagius, etc._
(1551), A iii.
[39] For a fuller account of the Collegiants see Chap. VII.
[40] _Schriften_, iii. B, p. 572.
[41] _Ibid._ ii. p. 783.
[42] _Ibid._ a. p. 784.
[43] _Ibid._ iii. A, p. 146.
[44] _Schriften_, ii. p. 785.
[45] _Ibid._ ii. p. 783.
[46] _Ibid._ iii. A, p. 74.
[47] Franck's _Chronica_ (1531), p. ccccli.
[48] Rutherford, _A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist_ (1648), chap. v.
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CHAPTER VI
SEBASTIAN CASTELLIO: A FORGOTTEN PROPHET[1]
Reformation history has been far too closely confined to a few main
highways of thought, and few persons therefore realize how rich in
ideas and how complex in typical religious conceptions this spiritual
upheaval really was. The types that prevailed and won their way to
wide favour have naturally compelled attention and are adequately
known. There were, however, very serious and impressive attempts made
to give the Reformation a totally different course from the one it
finally took in history, and these attempts, defeated by the sweep of
the main current, became submerged, and their dedicated and heroic
leaders became forgotten. Many of these spiritual ventures which for
the moment failed and were submerged are in striking parallelism with
currents of thought to-day, and our generation can perhaps appreciate
at their real worth these solitary souls who were destined to see their
cause defeated, to hear their names defamed, and to live in jeopardy
among the very people whom they most longed to help.
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