 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1788 - 368 pages
...authority was broken, which reftrains the bigot from thinking as he pleafes, and the Have from fpeaking as he thinks : the popes, fathers, and councils, were no longer the fupreme and infallible judges of the world ; and each Chriflian was taught to acknowledge no law but... | |
 | James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...: " Yet the services of Luther and his rivals are " solid and important, and the philosopher must " own his obligation to those fearless enthusiasts....no law but the scriptures, no interpreter but " his own'conscience. This freedom, however, *' was the consequence rather than the design of " the reformation.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...objects, will not be inflamed by enthusiasm, or insensibly subside in languor and indifference. II. The chain of authority was broken, which restrains...judges of the •world ; and each Christian was taught j.to acknowledge no law but the scriptures, no interpreter butliis own conscience. This freedom however... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 406 pages
...objects, will not be inflamed by enthusiasm, or insensibly subside in languor and indifference. II. The chain of authority was broken, which restrains...councils, were no longer the supreme and infallible * " Had it not been for such men as Luther and myself," said the fanatic Whiston to Halley the philosopher,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 406 pages
...in langour and indifference, n. The chain of authority was broken, which restrains the bigot frotn thinking as he pleases, and the slave from speaking...: the popes, fathers, and councils, were no longer tlxe supreme and in1 " Had it not been for such men as Luther and myself," said the fenatic Whiston... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - Catholics - 1812 - 588 pages
...objects, will not be inflamed by enthusiasm, or insensibly subside in languor and indifference. II. The chain of authority was broken, which restrains...the supreme and infallible judges of the world ; and * " ' Had it not been for such men as Luther and myself/ said the fanatic Whiston to Halley the Philosopher,... | |
 | Johann Georg Lochman - Lutheran Church - 1818 - 178 pages
...profession, were restored to liberty and the labours of social life ; the chain of authority was b/oken, which restrains the bigot from thinking as he pleases, and the slave from speaking as he thinks. The pope, fathers and councils were no longer the supreme and infallible judges of the world, and each... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 404 pages
...objects, will not be inflamed by enthusiasm, or insensibly subside in languor and indifference. II. The chain of authority was broken, which restrains...fathers, and councils, were no longer the supreme and 1 " Had it not been for snclf men as Luther and myself," said the fanatic Whiston to Halley the philosopher,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1829 - 482 pages
...objects, will not be inflamed by enthusiasm, or insensibly subside in langour and indifference. II. The chain of authority was broken, which restrains...thinking as he pleases, and the slave from speaking as lie thinks : the popes, fathers, and councils, were no longer the supreme and infallible judges of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1841 - 504 pages
...objects, will not be inflamed by enthusiasm, or insensibly subside in langour and indifference. II. The chain of authority was broken, which restrains...each Christian was taught to acknowledge no law but me Scriptures, no interpreter but his own conscience. This freedom, however, was the consequence, rather... | |
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It only remains to observe, whether such "sublime simplicity be consistent with popu" lar devotion; whether the vulgar, in the "absence of all visible objects, will not be " inflamed by enthusiasm, or insensibly subside " in languor and indifference.... 
