Evangelical Biography, or an Historical Account of the Lives and Deaths of Some Eminent Men of Various Countries and of Various Denominations in the Protestant Church

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Excerpt from Evangelical Biography, or an Historical Account of the Lives and Deaths of Some Eminent Men of Various Countries and of Various Denominations in the Protestant Church: Exhibiting the Unity of Their Faith and Experience in Their Several Ages, Countries, and Professions, And Illustrating the Power of Divine Grace in Their Very Remarkable Holy Living and DyingIt may be noted, that foon after and about the year 1300, flourilhed feveral able and pious men, who boldly withl'tood the errors of the church of Rome, and the ia folence of its popes. Of thefe, ' perhaps, none was more remarkable than Marfilius of Padua, who wrote his De~ fenfor Pacis for the emperor Lewis, of Bavaria, againlt pope John XXII, and who is execrated by name in the hull of pope Gregory againft W icklilfe. He vehemently oppofed the enormities of the court of Rome, and main tained, that believers are freely jul'nfied by grace alone, and that works are not the efficient caufe of our falvation, though juf'tification and falvation are ever attended with them. He and others paved the way for our great countryman, who foon afterwards appeared, and difiin~ guilhed himfelfabove them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.