History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . judgment of the Scriptures forthe race. Believing in hell fire, blazing brimstone, and lost souls,pulpit reformers passed the word to the pews, with searingpowers that brooked no argument. Consternation at theawful calamity awaiting the unsaved horrified the preacher,teacher, and hearer. Under the fiery utterances of a Knox, aCalvin, a Luther, and the seventeen other prominent Reform-ers, the scripture metaphor of a race to be run became literalreality for the thousands that sought salvation in the
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . judgment of the Scriptures forthe race. Believing in hell fire, blazing brimstone, and lost souls,pulpit reformers passed the word to the pews, with searingpowers that brooked no argument. Consternation at theawful calamity awaiting the unsaved horrified the preacher,teacher, and hearer. Under the fiery utterances of a Knox, aCalvin, a Luther, and the seventeen other prominent Reform-ers, the scripture metaphor of a race to be run became literalreality for the thousands that sought salvation in the bosomof the Reformed Churches. In every case, however, on thecontinent and in Scotland, the movement for the reformationof the church from within was spontaneous, and of thepeople. Only in England was the Reformation officiallytaken quickly in hand and directed as an engine of state bythe king and his favorite noblemen. In Holland and Switz-erland—the two federal republics—the reforming move-ment was fiercely democratic and was based on the public 58 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS. TnHK Hus TOTTX ITUSS. JEROME.
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