History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . 6o HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS John Knox, the strenuous educator as well as fearlessReformer, claimed before he died, and through his efifortsproved the claim, that every tow^n in Scotland should have aschool and every large city a university. This thirst for human life because of differences intheological opinions ran w^ild riot each side of the Con-formist barrier. One finds this same bloodthirsty spirit inlodgings with Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, whose hatred. MARTIN BUCER. ERASMUS. fo
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . 6o HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS John Knox, the strenuous educator as well as fearlessReformer, claimed before he died, and through his efifortsproved the claim, that every tow^n in Scotland should have aschool and every large city a university. This thirst for human life because of differences intheological opinions ran w^ild riot each side of the Con-formist barrier. One finds this same bloodthirsty spirit inlodgings with Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, whose hatred. MARTIN BUCER. ERASMUS. for the Anabaptist blazed forth when he hissed He thatdips let him be dipped, which at the behest of this divinewas done so thoroughly that his fellow Protestant religion-ists were drowned by thousands. Only William the Silent,in the Dutch Republic threw the aegis of protection overall believers, his first and effective claim being made onbehalf of the Anabaptists at Middelburg in 1577, whichclear call English Separatists heard and accepted at once. As for Calvin himself, he entertained no Hebrew ideasabout what was to him and to all redeemed Christians nota Jewish Sabbath nor a worldings Sunday, but the SabbathDay. Hence, he took recreation on the afternoon of theFirst Day of the week in his garden. Calvin was not half PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 6i
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