A Short History of the Protestant Reformation: Chiefly Selected from Protestant Authors (Classic Reprint)

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Before we proceed further, let us clearly understand the meaning of these words - Ca tholic, Protestant and Reformation. Cathe {é lie means universal; and religion, which takes this epithet, was called universal, because all}: Christian peo is, of every nation, acknowledg ed one and t e same head of the Church, and this was the Pope, who, though he generall resided at Rome, was the hea of the Churc in England, in France, in Spain, and, in she in every part of the world where the Christi religion was professed. But there came a it time, when some nations, or rather, arts of some nations, cast of the authority oft e Pope, and, of course, no lon er acknowledged him as the head of the Christian Church. T hese_ nations, or parts of nations, declared, or pro.

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