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unite with it, resulted in making more clear the contrast between the work of Satan and the work of God.
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11. Protest Of The Princes.
One of the noblest testimonies ever uttered for the Reformation, was the Protest offered by the Christian princes of Germany at the Diet of Spires in 1529. The courage, faith, and firmness of those men of God, gained for succeeding ages liberty of thought and of conscience. Their Protest gave to the reformed church the name of Protestant; its principles are“ the very essence of Protestantism.” 283
A dark and threatening day had come for the Reformation. Notwithstanding the edict of Worms, declaring Luther to be an outlaw, and forbidding the teaching or belief of his doctrines,
283 D ' Aubigné, b. 13, ch. 6.