History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1609 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 71 pages of information about History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1609.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1609 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 71 pages of information about History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1609.

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About equal to that of England at the same period
An unjust God, himself the origin of sin
Butchery in the name of Christ was suspended
Calling a peace perpetual can never make it so
Chieftains are dwarfed in the estimation of followers
Each in its turn becoming orthodox, and therefore persecuting
Exorcising the devil by murdering his supposed victims
Foremost to shake off the fetters of superstition
God of vengeance, of jealousy, and of injustice
Gomarites accused the Arminians of being more lax than Papists
Hangman is not the most appropriate teacher of religion
He often spoke of popular rights with contempt
John Wier, a physician of Grave
Necessity of extirpating heresy, root and branch
Nowhere were so few unproductive consumers
Paving the way towards atheism (by toleration)
Privileged to beg, because ashamed to work
Religious persecution of Protestants by Protestants
So unconscious of her strength
State can best defend religion by letting it alone
Taxed themselves as highly as fifty per cent
The People had not been invented
The slightest theft was punished with the gallows
Tolerate another religion that his own may be tolerated
Toleration—­that intolerable term of insult
War to compel the weakest to follow the religion of the strongest

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