. Evenings with the sacred poets:. es of conscience, for which there was nolonger the easy resolution of an authoritative decisionof church or priest, and which saddened the lives ofmany whom we should not now call specially religiouspersons; and it brought endless disputes on doctrinalquestions among the professors of the evangelical faiththemselves. Over the temporary compromise betweenthe Romanist and Protestant religions, known as theInterim ; over every shade of more or less Calvinisticviews of the Atonement and the Sacraments, — theyquarrelled, not in words only, but in deeds.* Thusdivid
. Evenings with the sacred poets:. es of conscience, for which there was nolonger the easy resolution of an authoritative decisionof church or priest, and which saddened the lives ofmany whom we should not now call specially religiouspersons; and it brought endless disputes on doctrinalquestions among the professors of the evangelical faiththemselves. Over the temporary compromise betweenthe Romanist and Protestant religions, known as theInterim ; over every shade of more or less Calvinisticviews of the Atonement and the Sacraments, — theyquarrelled, not in words only, but in deeds.* Thusdivided, and broken up into opposing interests, theStates of Protestant Germany were rife with feuds andintestine strifes; while the Jesuits and the House ofHapsburg, on the Romish side of despotism, formeda united and broad phalanx against them. The horo-scope of the future might well, indeed, be regarded asominous of disaster and trouble; and it came in thesanguinary struggle which lasted a lifetime. * Christian Singers of FOURTH EVENING. GERMAN. —THIRTY YEARS WAR.
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