item: #1 of 20 id: 12890 author: Spalding, Thomas Alfred title: Elizabethan Demonology An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works date: None words: 42682 flesch: 66 summary: Names of greater devils. Of the twenty devils mentioned by Shakspere, four only belong to the class of greater devils. keywords: account; act; belief; day; devils; evidence; footnote; form; god; gods; good; hamlet; hand; harsnet; iii; influence; king; life; macbeth; man; men; mind; opinion; people; period; play; possession; power; present; question; scot; second; shakspere; sisters; spirits; subject; thought; time; witchcraft; witches; words; work; world cache: 12890.txt plain text: 12890.txt item: #2 of 20 id: 14016 author: Lang, Andrew title: John Knox and the Reformation date: None words: 82431 flesch: 70 summary: Yet, how could she ask any ambassador to produce a confessed forgery as genuine? Footnotes {0a} Inventories of Mary, Queen of Scots, p. cxxii., note 7. {0b} Hume Brown, John Knox, ii. 320-324. {2a} Probably Mrs. Knox died in her son's youth, and his father married again. No man ought to be in priest's orders before he was twenty-five; Knox, if born in 1515, was just twenty-five in 1540, when he is styled Sir John Knox (one of The Pope's Knights) in legal documents, and appears as a notary. keywords: andrews; arran; authority; bain; book; brethren; calvin; castle; catholic; cecil; church; congregation; council; day; death; edinburgh; elizabeth; england; english; fact; france; french; god; godly; good; guise; history; huntly; james; january; john knox; july; june; kirk; knox; later; lethington; letter; life; like; lord; man; march; mary; mass; men; ministers; moray; mrs; murder; october; party; people; perth; preachers; protestant; queen; queen mary; randolph; reformer; regent; religion; scotland; scottish; terms; time cache: 14016.txt plain text: 14016.txt item: #3 of 20 id: 18879 author: Smith, Preserved title: The Age of the Reformation date: None words: 267611 flesch: 68 summary: 1911-13. Preserved Smith: _Life and Letters of Martin Luther_, 1911. (Especially the preface to the second edition, 1914). The German Theology_. keywords: account; age; ages; army; art; articles; augsburg; authority; battle; bible; body; books; calvin; catholic; cause; cents; centuries; century; change; chapter; character; charles; chief; christ; christian; christianity; church; cities; city; civil; class; classes; clergy; commerce; council; countries; country; course; day; death; der; des; die; diet; doctrine; duke; economic; effect; elizabeth; emperor; empire; end; england; english; erasmus; estates; europe; example; fact; faith; following; foreign; france; francis; free; freedom; french; general; german; geschichte; god; gold; good; government; great; greek; half; hands; henry; heresy; heretics; history; huguenots; human; iii; influence; inquisition; interest; italian; italy; jesuits; john; king; known; knox; latin; law; laws; left; letters; liberty; life; literature; little; lord; love; luther; lutheran; man; marriage; mary; means; medieval; melanchthon; men; middle; modern; money; moral; movement; national; nature; netherlands; new; nobles; north; number; opinion; order; papal; paris; parliament; party; paul; people; period; philip; philosophy; place; point; policy; political; poor; pope; population; position; power; priests; princes; protestant; protestantism; public; purpose; queen; reason; reformation; reformers; reign; religion; renaissance; revolt; revolution; right; rise; roman; rome; save; science; scotland; second; section; self; service; sidenote; sixteenth; social; soul; spain; spanish; spirit; spiritual; state; subject; support; testament; theory; things; thomas; thought; time; trade; translation; trent; truth; und; university; value; viii; vols; von; war; way; wealth; william; wittenberg; women; work; world; years; zwingli cache: 18879.txt plain text: 18879.txt item: #4 of 20 id: 1911 author: Luther, Martin title: Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X. date: None words: 18606 flesch: 66 summary: True, then, are these two sayings: Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; Bad works do not make a bad man, but a bad man does bad works. Before the eyes of these men it is expedient to eat flesh, to break fasts, and to do in behalf of the liberty of faith things which they hold to be the greatest sins. keywords: christ; christian; faith; god; good; justification; law; liberty; life; man; men; things; word; works cache: 1911.txt plain text: 1911.txt item: #5 of 20 id: 20461 author: Bax, Ernest Belfort title: German Culture Past and Present date: None words: 59094 flesch: 55 summary: In Saxony, similarly, the agricultural journeymen received two meals a day, of four courses each, besides frequently cheese and bread at other times should they require it. Of the fate of other prominent men connected with the events described, we have spoken in the course of the narrative. keywords: ages; beginning; central; century; change; character; chief; church; city; class; country; course; day; devil; emperor; empire; end; europe; fact; feudal; friedrich; general; german; god; great; half; history; knights; law; life; literature; lord; luther; means; mediæval; middle; money; movement; new; order; peasant; people; period; place; power; present; princes; prussia; reformation; revolt; roman; sickingen; social; system; things; time; town; von; war; way; world; year cache: 20461.txt plain text: 20461.txt item: #6 of 20 id: 21486 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: The Woodcutter of Gutech date: None words: 13815 flesch: 82 summary: I have a message for you, old man, said the gaoler, who, though rough in appearance, spoke sometimes in a kind tone. Gottlieb Spena was much the better for his day's rest, and the following morning set out with old Moretz and his grandson on their weekly journey, when they went into the neighbouring town to dispose of their fagots. keywords: book; count; friend; god; herder; karl; man; meta; moretz; people; time; way cache: 21486.txt plain text: 21486.txt item: #7 of 20 id: 21938 author: Knox, John title: The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) date: None words: 227591 flesch: 72 summary: That confessioun gave that hole nomber, during the tyme of thare bondage: in the which, wald God thei had continewed in thare fredome; for then had nott Maister James Balfour bein Officiall,[579] neyther yitt borne a cope[580] for pleasur of the Bischope. The day appointed to thare crueltie approched, the two poore sanctis of God war presented befoir those bloody bowcheouris: grevouse war the crymes that war layed to thare charge. keywords: abbot; account; agane; alexander; andrews; ane; ane man; answer; appendix; appointment; april; archbishop; articles; august; authoritie; awin; balfour; beaton; becaus; befoir; befoir god; begane; bein; beleve; bene; betuix; bischope; bischoppis; bishop; body; boith; book; borne; bot; brethren; brother; buchanan; butt; cardinall; castell; castle; cause; certane; charge; charter; christ; church; college; command; commandiment; commoun; conforte; congregatioun; conscience; consent; copy; council; counsall; court; cuming; cumpany; danger; date; daughter; david; day; dayis; death; december; declair; defence; deid; desyre; diverse; doctrin; doubt; duke; earl; edinburgh; edit; edition; efter; ellis; end; england; english; erle; eternall; evangell; everie; evill; eyther; faith; fals; family; father; fear; february; fifth; foirsaid; following; force; foxe; france; freindis; french; frome; furth; fyre; gentilmen; george; geve; gevin; gif; glasgow; glorie; god; god j^m; goddis; godly; good; governour; grace; gray; great; haif; haill; hamilton; hand; handis; hath; haue; having; head; hear; heir; henry; hie; hir; history; hole; holy; honour; house; hym; i. p.; idolatrie; item; james; jesus; john; johnestoun; johnne; judgement; july; june; justice; king; kingis; kirk; knowledge; knox; lady; lands; lard; law; lay; left; leith; lesley; letter; letteris; libertie; life; london; lord; lord god; lord james; lordis; maid; maik; maister; mak; man; maner; march; marginal; mary; men; men war; mercy; monsieur; mss; mycht; mynd; near; nether; new; nobilitie; nocht; nomber; note; notice; nott; november; obedience; october; offended; office; onlie; ony; order; ordinance; ordour; otheris; oure; page; papers; parish; parliament; parte; patrick; people; persons; perth; place; power; preaching; preastis; presence; present; prince; publict; purpose; putt; queen; quene; quenis; quhat; quhilk; realme; receaved; regent; religioun; rest; robert; sanct; sanctandrois; sayd; saying; sche; schir; scotland; second; seing; self; selfis; send; sentence; september; servand; service; sett; shalbe; sick; sir; small; son; sone; space; state; strangearis; suffer; sum; tackin; text; thair; thairfoir; thairof; thame; thame selfis; thare war; thay; thay war; thee; thei; thingis; thomas; thought; thow; thy; time; title; toune; town; treasurer; trew; truble; tyme; understand; upoun; uther; vautr; verray; vol; volume; wald; walter; war; weall; wealth; werkis; whare; whiche; whill; whome; wicked; william; wishart; wold; word; work; year; yitt; yow cache: 21938.txt plain text: 21938.txt item: #8 of 20 id: 22900 author: Huizinga, Johan title: Erasmus and the Age of Reformation date: None words: 99650 flesch: 70 summary: At Basle Erasmus worked again like a horse in a treadmill. At Basle Erasmus himself revised an edition which was published in March 1522 by Froben, dedicated to the latter's six-year-old son, the author's godchild, Johannes Erasmius Froben. keywords: adagia; age; basle; bishop; books; cause; christ; christian; church; colet; day; days; death; edition; england; erasmus; faith; father; fear; folly; form; friends; froben; god; good; greek; heart; henry; holland; house; human; italy; jerome; john; journey; king; know; latin; learning; left; letters; life; literature; louvain; love; luther; man; matter; means; men; mind; monastery; need; new; order; paris; people; piety; place; point; pope; portrait; rest; return; sense; spirit; studies; study; testament; things; thomas; thought; time; university; war; way; william; work; world; writing; years cache: 22900.txt plain text: 22900.txt item: #9 of 20 id: 23120 author: Holt, Emily Sarah title: The King's Daughters date: None words: 64004 flesch: 92 summary: Good little maid! Go you on, and when you've made an end I'll ask good Master Clere to show me some, without Mistress Clere's at liberty sooner. keywords: alice; amy; bit; children; cissy; clere; come; day; dear; door; dorothy; elizabeth; ewring; father; god; good; head; heart; johnson; know; look; lord; maid; man; margaret; master; mistress; mother; mrs; right; rose; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; want; way cache: 23120.txt plain text: 23120.txt item: #10 of 20 id: 23191 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Count Ulrich of Lindburg: A Tale of the Reformation in Germany date: None words: 23955 flesch: 75 summary: Some who had the gift of preaching went forth to preach the Gospel; others have begun to learn trades that they may support themselves; and, as I have a good broad pair of shoulders, I offered to carry throughout our fatherland the Gospel book, and other works of Dr Luther, which had proved so great a blessing to our souls; and though I cannot preach, I can go about and tell people that, through God's love, Christ died for all men; that there is but one Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ; and that men will be saved, not by dead works, but by a living faith in Him, which will produce fruits unto righteousness, an earnest desire to imitate Him, to serve Him, to spread these glad tidings among all mankind. The Bible was being disseminated; the convents thrown open--or, at all events, their inmates were leaving them--superstitions were being abolished; a pure form of worship was being established in numerous places; and, what was of the greatest importance, young men of high talent and courage were being educated in the principles of the Reformation to spread the pure light of the Gospel throughout all parts of Germany. keywords: ava; christ; day; eric; father; god; good; hans; knight; little; luther; man; margaret; martin; men; mother; nicholas; son; time; wittemburg cache: 23191.txt plain text: 23191.txt item: #11 of 20 id: 272 author: Luther, Martin title: An Open Letter on Translating date: None words: 6792 flesch: 81 summary: Gracious, St. Paul and I want to offend like this for we preach so strongly against works, insisting on faith alone for no other reason than to offend people that they might stumble and fall and learn that they are not saved by good works but only by Christ's death and resurrection. Therefore, it does not follow that because good works do not help, bad works will; just as it does not follow that because the sun cannot help a blind person see, the night and darkness must help him see. keywords: christ; faith; german; god; good; saints; word; works cache: 272.txt plain text: 272.txt item: #12 of 20 id: 274 author: Luther, Martin title: Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences date: None words: 5053 flesch: 70 summary: E-mail: CFWLibrary@CRF.CUIS.EDU Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft. Wayne, IN 46825 USA Phone: (219) 481-2123 Fax: (219) 481-2126 ====================================================================== Amore et studio elucidande veritatis hec subscripta disputabuntur Wittenberge, Presidente R. P. Martino Lutther, Artium et S. Theologie Magistro eiusdemque ibidem lectore Ordinario. E-mail: CFWLibrary@CRF.CUIS.EDU Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft. Wayne, IN 46825 USA Phone: (219) 481-2123 Fax: (219) 481-2126 ====================================================================== Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum. by Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546 D. MARTIN LUTHERS WERKE: KRITISCHE GESAMMTAUSGABE. keywords: 001la =; = =; christians; church; dei; est; god; indulgences; love; man; money; non; papa; pape; pardons; penalties; pope; purgatory; quam; qui; quod; remission; sed; sunt; veniarum cache: 274.txt plain text: 274.txt item: #13 of 20 id: 33891 author: Sastrow, Bartholomäus title: Bartholomew Sastrow: Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster date: None words: 101906 flesch: 69 summary: Ketelhot was no more jealous of the superintendent than Knipstro, took umbrage at the title of _primarius pastor_. Joachim Moritz, _professor juris_ at Greifswald and ducal counsellor, had never been to Stralsund, and knew nobody there. keywords: augsburg; bishop; brother; burgomaster; case; chamber; chancellor; chapter; charles; children; christian; christopher; church; city; consequence; council; country; court; crowns; day; days; death; diet; doctor; duke; elector; emperor; end; fact; family; father; florins; footnote; george; german; god; good; great; greifswald; half; hand; head; hold; home; horse; imperial; johannes; journey; king; law; leave; left; life; lorbeer; lord; lubeck; luther; man; means; moment; money; morning; mother; nicholas; night; order; people; philip; place; pomerania; pope; present; prince; return; rome; room; sastrow; secretary; servant; smiterlow; son; spires; spite; stralsund; table; time; town; von; way; wife; wine; word; work; years; young cache: 33891.txt plain text: 33891.txt item: #14 of 20 id: 35067 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Pocket Bible; or, Christian the Printer: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century date: None words: 166736 flesch: 76 summary: What a man says to God men may hear, replied the Admiral with ancient loftiness. Good men! Read the sacred Book. keywords: admiral; anna; antonicq; arms; bell; blood; bridget; brother; captain; cardinal; catherine; catholic; cause; charles; children; christian; church; city; coligny; cornelia; daughter; day; days; dear; death; door; duke; enemy; ernest; estienne; eyes; face; faith; family; father; feet; fire; franc; friend; girl; god; good; hands; head; heart; held; hena; hervé; holy; honor; house; huguenots; john; josephin; king; lebrenn; left; letter; life; love; loyola; madam; man; master; men; moment; monk; monsieur; mother; new; night; odelin; order; paris; people; place; plouernel; poor; prince; queen; rennepont; return; robert; rochelle; saw; seeing; sister; soldiers; son; taupin; thought; time; voice; wife; women; words; work cache: 35067.txt plain text: 35067.txt item: #15 of 20 id: 36433 author: Charles, Elizabeth Rundle title: Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family date: None words: 174689 flesch: 80 summary: Said Offerus aloud to his comrades, What is this? Said she, Yes, dearest father; as God wills. keywords: agnes; aunt; believe; book; brother; children; christ; christopher; church; city; come; convent; day; days; dead; dear; death; devil; doubt; earth; eisenach; elsè; eva; eyes; face; faith; family; father; forest; fritz; god; good; gottfried; grandmother; hand; heart; heaven; help; holy; home; hope; house; joy; kind; left; life; little; look; lord; love; luther; man; martin; martin luther; men; monks; morning; mother; new; night; order; people; place; rome; room; saints; sins; sister; son; speak; spirit; tell; thee; thekla; things; think; thought; thy; time; truth; voice; way; wittemberg; words; work; world; years; young cache: 36433.txt plain text: 36433.txt item: #16 of 20 id: 40798 author: Lindsay, Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) title: A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) date: None words: 227321 flesch: 65 summary: _Cope_, 403 _f._ _n._, 406 and _n._, 407. of Savoy, 62; Pierre de la Baume, 77, 82 _f._, 85, 89. keywords: act; anabaptists; april; archbishop; articles; authorities; authority; bern; bishop; body; book; calendar; calvin; cardinal; catherine; catholic; century; charles; children; christ; christian; church; churches; citizens; city; clergy; common; condition; conference; confession; congregation; correspondance; council; country; court; day; days; de france; death; des; die; discipline; doctrine; duke; edict; edward; elizabeth; emperor; end; england; english; europe; evangelical; faith; farel; footnote; france; francis; french; general; geneva; germany; god; good; government; hands; head; henry; heresy; herminjard; history; holy; house; ibid; ideas; ignatius; iii; influence; inquisition; italian; italy; jan; jesus; john; july; king; knox; law; leaders; league; learning; left; letters; life; london; lord; luther; lutheran; march; marriage; mary; mass; matters; mediæval; mediæval church; members; men; mother; movement; münster; navarre; netherlands; new; nobles; opinions; order; papal; papers; paris; parliament; paul; people; persecution; philip; place; policy; pope; power; prayer; preachers; preaching; presence; present; priests; prince; protestant; provinces; public; queen; question; reformation; reformed; reformers; regent; religion; right; roman; romanist; rome; rule; scotland; scripture; second; set; society; son; spain; spanish; state; supper; swiss; switzerland; theology; things; thomas; thought; time; town; trent; use; viii; way; william; women; word; work; worship; years; young; zurich; zwingli cache: 40798.txt plain text: 40798.txt item: #17 of 20 id: 44262 author: Alcock, Deborah title: The Spanish Brothers: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century date: None words: 125765 flesch: 82 summary: After a long pause she added, as she rose to go, Señor Don Carlos, be not offended if I counsel you this once, since I held you a babe in my arms, and you will find none that loves you better--if a poor old woman may say so to a young and noble caballero. De Seso said, I suspect that I see in you, Señor Don Carlos, one of those admirable scholars who have devoted their talents to the study of that sacred language in which the words of the holy apostles are handed down to us. keywords: alvarez; beatriz; brother; carlos; christ; church; cousin; day; days; death; dolores; don carlos; don juan; doña; eyes; face; faith; father; fear; fire; fray; god; gonsalvo; good; half; hand; heart; holy; hope; house; joy; juan; kind; lady; life; light; lips; long; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; moment; mother; new; noble; place; prior; rest; room; save; sebastian; seville; señor; son; soul; thee; things; thought; thy; time; truth; voice; way; words; world; years cache: 44262.txt plain text: 44262.txt item: #18 of 20 id: 47868 author: Bax, Ernest Belfort title: German Society at the Close of the Middle Ages date: None words: 56830 flesch: 61 summary: It chanceth that certain Merchants deceitfully in the seeming of trust and faith do take the Goods of other men by making bankruptcy, which is like unto a theft, and he who doth of purpose strive after another man's Money and Goods shall be punished hardly. In Saxony, similarly, the agricultural journeymen received two meals a day, of four courses each, besides frequently cheese and bread at other times should they require it. keywords: ages; auch; authority; beginning; bundschuh; case; castle; century; church; cities; city; country; course; dass; day; der; devil; die; emperor; empire; end; europe; fact; feudal; germany; god; guild; gulden; hand; hath; having; head; history; holy; imperial; interest; ist; joss; journeymen; karsthans; knighthood; knights; land; law; learning; life; lord; luther; man; matter; means; mediæval; men; middle; money; monks; movement; nicht; order; organisation; peasant; people; period; place; pope; portugal; power; princes; reformation; revolt; right; roman; sickingen; sie; social; system; things; time; town; trade; und; village; von; wares; way; werden; work; world; year cache: 47868.txt plain text: 47868.txt item: #19 of 20 id: 48250 author: Knox, John title: The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline date: None words: 168605 flesch: 72 summary: Turning his face towards the room where sat such men as had so affirmed, If I be not able to prove the Mass to be the most abominable idolatry that ever was used since the beginning of the world, I offer myself to suffer the punishment appointed by God to a false teacher; and it appears to me that the affirmers should be subject to the same law; for it is the truth of God that ye persecute and blaspheme; and it is the invention of the Devil that, obstinately against His Word, ye maintain. The chiefest remedy left to your honours and to us, in all this rarity of true ministers, is fervent prayer unto God, that it will please His mercy to thrust out faithful workmen into this His harvest; and next, that your honours, with the consent of the Kirk, are bound by your authority to compel such men as have gifts and graces able to edify the Kirk of God, that they bestow them where greatest necessity shall be known; for no man may be permitted to live idle, or as he himself lists, but he must be appointed to travail where your wisdoms and the Kirk shall think expedient. keywords: andrews; answer; authority; betwixt; bishops; book; brethren; cardinal; castle; cause; christ; church; commandment; congregation; council; day; days; death; doctrine; earl; edinburgh; end; england; faith; fear; france; french; george; god; godly; good; grace; hath; holy; idolatry; james; jesus; john; john knox; judgment; king; kirk; knox; law; lethington; life; lord; man; mass; master; men; ministers; order; papists; parliament; people; place; power; present; public; purpose; queen; read; realm; regent; religion; scotland; sidenote; things; thou; thy; time; town; truth; word; yea; year cache: 48250.txt plain text: 48250.txt item: #20 of 20 id: 51229 author: None title: The Reformation and the Renaissance (1485-1547) Second Edition date: None words: 42339 flesch: 67 summary: Howbeit since it is not performed in deed, that you pretend, we have thought it expedient to require your Holiness to provide us other remedies: wherefore forasmuch as your Holiness would vouchsafe to write unto us concerning this matter, we heartily thank you greatly lamenting also both the chance of your Holiness and also ours, unto whom both twain it hath chanced in so high a matter of so great moment to be frustrated and deceived: that is to say, that your Holiness not being instructed, nor having knowledge of the matter, of your self should be compelled to hang upon the judgement of others, and so put forth and make answers, gathered of other men, being variable and repugnant among themselves. So that except they might have time to refresh themselves, both to get health and such necessary furniture as they now want, undoubtedly we see not how it is possible to pick out the said number of 3900 of such men as may be sent with honesty to serve Your Highness keywords: act; authority; cardinal; cause; contrary; day; divers; earl; england; footnote; god; good; grace; hath; henry; highness; houses; item; john; king; king henry; letters; london; lord; majesty; man; manner; matter; men; money; number; order; people; persons; pleasure; power; realm; royal; sir; subjects; things; time; toun; viii cache: 51229.txt plain text: 51229.txt