The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland: With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War, Volume 1Harper, 1874 |
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Página iii - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the "Thirty Years
Página 336 - I. God has from eternity resolved to choose to eternal life those who through his grace believe in Jesus Christ, and in faith and obedience so continue to the end, and to condemn the unbelieving and unconverted to eternal damnation. II. Jesus Christ died for all; so, nevertheless, that no one actually except believers is redeemed by His death. III. Man has not the saving belief from himself, nor out of his free will, but he needs thereto God's grace in Christ. IV. This grace is the beginning...
Página 320 - Barneveld's request that he should, for the time at least, remain at his post. Later on, as the intrigues against him began to unfold themselves, and his faithful services were made use of at home to blacken his character and procure his removal, he refused to resign, as to do so would be to play into the hands of his enemies, and by inference at least to accuse himself of infidelity to his trust." . . . " It is no wonder that the Ambassador was galled to the quick by the outrage which those concerned...
Página 255 - Protestant princes in the full possession of those splendid and important provinces, and had dictated her decrees on German soil to the Emperor of Germany, and had towed, as it were, Great Britain and France along in her wake, instead of humbly following those powers, and had accomplished all that she had ever proposed to do, even in alliance with them both. The King of England considered that quite enough had been done, and was in great haste to patch up a reconciliation. He thought his ambassador...
Página v - the natural sequel to the other histories already published by the author, as well as the necessary introduction to that concluding portion of his labours which " he desired " to lay before the public — a history of the Thirty Years
Página 45 - He knew nothing of predestination," he was wont to say, " whether it was green, or whether it was blue. He only knew that his pipe and the Advocate's were not likely to make music together.
Página vi - ... as it has rarely been permitted to a single despot to perpetrate, had been baffled at last. Disappointed, broken, but even to our own generation never completely unveiled, the tyrant had withdrawn from the stage of human affairs, leaving his son to carry on the great conspiracy against Human Right, independence of nations, liberty of thought, and equality of religions, with the additional vigour which sprang from intensity of conviction. For Philip possessed at least that superiority over his...
Página 251 - I have studied that subject," said James, "as well as anybody, and have come to the conclusion that nothing certain can be laid down in regard to it. I have myself not always been of one mind about it ; but I will bet that my opinion is the best of any, although I would not hang my salvation upon it. My Lords the States would do well to order their doctors and teachers to be silent on the topic. I have hardly ventured moreover to touch upon the matter of Justification in my own writings, because...
Página 29 - He was now in the full flower of his strength and his fame, in his forty-second year, and of a noble and martial presence. The face, although unquestionably handsome, offered a sharp contrast within itself; the upper half all intellect, the lower quite sensual. Fair hair growing thin, but hardly tinged with grey, a bright, cheerful, and thoughtful forehead, large hazel eyes within a singularly large orbit of brow ; a straight, thin, slightly aquiline, well-cut nose — such features were at open...
Página 339 - Exchange, in the tennis-court, on the mall ; at banquets, at burials, christenings, or bridals ; wherever and whenever human creatures met each other, there was ever to be found the fierce wrangle of Remonstrant and Contra-Remonstrant, the hissing of red-hot theological rhetoric, the pelting of hostile texts.