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After returning to Antwerp, he consented, in consequence of the urgent entreaties of the senate, to delay his departure until the 18th of August should be past. On the 13th of that month he had agreed with the magistrates upon an ordinance, which was accordingly published, and by which the preachings were restricted to the fields.
There has not been a fairy seen in the land since Donald Cargil, the Cameronian, conjured them into the Solway for playing on their pipes during one of his nocturnal preachings on the hip of the Burnswark hill.
He was also accused of going to the Protestant preachings for the sake of participating in the alms distributed an these occasions, a crime for which many other paupers were executed. An old man of sixty-two was sent to the scaffold for having permitted his son to bear arms among the volunteers. Ten, twelve, twenty persons, were often hanged, burned, or beheaded in a single day.
Three monks from Silesia, converts to Luther's views, came into these parts to preach, passing from one village to another, and in the towns they "held catechisings and preachings in the public squares and market-places," where crowds came from all the country round to hear them.
"We commend you lovingly to God's holy keeping. "Given from our Castle of Wolgast, this Friday, April 15, 1569. How Duke Barnim of Stettin and Otto Bork accompany Sidonia back to Wolgast. When his Highness of Stettin had finished the perusal of her Grace's letter, he laughed loudly, and exclaimed "This comes of all their piety and preachings.
They enthusiastically took up the new question, especially Pécuchet. His need of truth became a burning thirst. Moved by Bouvard's preachings, he gave up spiritualism, but soon resumed it again only to abandon it once more, and, clasping his head with his hands, he would exclaim: "Oh, doubt! doubt! I would much prefer nothingness."
"Give me no Buts; neither But nor If pass between monk and Abbot, Father Philip; the bands of discipline must not be relaxed heresy gathers force like a snow-ball the multitude expect confessions and preachings from the Benedictine, as they would from so many beggarly friars and we may not desert the vineyard, though the toil be grievous unto us."
In Paris, Diderot and his companions brought out the famous Cyclopædia, a mighty monument of human learning indeed, but even more a mighty sermon against tyranny, a scornful protest against Christianity, a teacher spreading over all the earth the preachings of Voltaire. If there was evil in this movement there was also good.
And in proportion as the Holy Spirit pervades and fills the hearts of the children of God, the manifestation of the Life of God in them, and through them, will have an ever-increasing effect, and will do what church systems and even the preachings of her thousand pulpits cannot effect in convincing and saving men.
After returning to Antwerp, he consented, in consequence of the urgent entreaties of the senate, to delay his departure until the 18th of August should be past. On the 13th of that month he had agreed with the magistrates upon an ordinance, which was accordingly published, and by which the preachings were restricted to the fields.
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