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Some Aspects of the Reformation, an Essay Suggested by the Rev. Dr i^^^-lfi <*'V4 ^OME ASPECTS OF THE REFORMATION, SOME ASPECTS <m THE REFORMATION. ^it (tm\\% SUGGESTED BY THE REV. DE. LITTLEDALE'S LECTURE ON " innovations;' BY JOHN GIBSON GAZENOVE, M.A,, OXON. PROVOSt OF THE COiLEGE, ISLE OF CUMBHAE, 5COTLAXD. / \ / ^X^^ LONDON : "WILLIAM EIDGWAY, lun, PICCADILLY, W. 1869. TO GEORGE FREDERICK, EARL OF GLASGOW, IS RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED, AS AN OFFERING, NOT ONLY FROM THE PROVOST OF A COLLEGE TO ITS FOUNDER, BUT LIKEWISE AS FROM AN AUTHOR TO A SYMPATHIZING AND SUGGESTIVE CRITIC. " The Eefoi'matiou was not tlie work of a year, or of a genera- tion. Its foundation was laid both in the good and in the evil qualities of our nature. Love of truth, reverence for sacred things, a sense of personal responsibility, a desire for the posses- sion of full spiritual privileges, co-operated with the pride of human reason, the natural impatience of restraint, and the envy and hatred inspired among the nobles by a rich and powerful hierarchy, to make the world weary of the Papal domination, and desirous of reform in things spiritual and ecclesiastical." Bishop Harold Browne, of Ely, (a.d. 1860). " Toute grande revolution agit toujours plus ou moins sur ceux memes qui lui resistent, et ne permet plus le retablissement total des anciennes idees. Nous le voyons par la commotion religieuse du XVIieme siecle, qui a opere une revolution tres sensible memo chez les Catholiques." Count Joseph de Maistre, (about A.D. 1816). " What undertaking of more importance, and higher interest, can employ the piety and learning cf the ministers of Christ than the endeavour to accomplish this truly Christian work [of recon- ciliation]." Bishop Shute Barrington, of Durham, (about a.d, 1802). " Nor can a unity be said to be complete which does not assimi- late with itself all that is good and pious in the Protestant bodies." Bishop Forbes, of Brechin, (in a.d. 1865). " Catholics and Protestants will, in great multitudes, one day meet and stretch a friendly hand one to the other. Both, con- ' scious of guilt, must exclaim, We have all erred, it is the Church which cannot err we have all the only ; sinned, Church only is spotless on earth.' "JIfo/iZer, (a.d. 1832). " He saw that the future junction could not be expected in the form of a simple, unaided, mechanical reunion of the divided con- fessions. It was also clear to him that there could be no thought of a mere absorption of one Church by the other. He thought that a certain process of purification must be gone through ou both sides, and it must be recognized that each of the two bodies, though in an unequal degree, had to receive good from the other, had to itself each purify from faults and one-sidedness by the help of to fill in the other, up gaps its religious and ecclesiastical life, to heal wounds and that neither could be to ; expected give up an actual good which it had proved in life and history. Under these conditions, sooner or later, in the heart of Europe, in Germany,, the process of reconciliation and union would go on." Dr, D'vJlinger on Maximiliau II., late King of Bavaria, (a.d. 1864.) CONTENTS. FAOB The Relation of the Eefoemation to-^ I. The Medieval Cuukch as exhibited in life - AND PRACTICE . II. The Charactee oe the Eeformers and the MEDIiEVAL CURRENT DoCTRINES 43 III. The Question of authority 86 IV. The Eenaissance . , . 111 V. Toleration and Political Liberty . 122 VI. The History of the last hundred years, a.d 1769 18G9 149 VII. The Church of the Future. 167 NOTICE. The words of the title-page are intended to be literally descriptive of the point of view from which these pages have been composed. This Essay loas suggested by another publication, but is not meant to be considered as a formal reply. It deals more with the Eeformation than with the Reformers with the ; movement rather than with its promoters. Originally commenced as an article for a Eeview, it has gradually been expanded into its present shape. SOME ASPECTS OF THE EEFOEMATION. When a great movement alike of tlioiiglit and action has swept over the ocean of society and stirred it from its inmost when the storms depths ; and tempests to which it has given birth seem but seldom lulled and ever ready to burst forth again with renewed violence when the shores on ; every side are strewn with the wrecks it has cast it is up ; not an easy task for any man to assume the position of a calm and critical spectator of the scene. On the one hand, to be devoid of all sympathy with the ideas and emotions engendered in the strife is simply to proclaim himself utterly unfit to discuss the very nature of problems, which awake no living interest in the critic's heart. On the other hand, too eager participation in the views and principles of either side, may evoke that temper of the advocate which is so fatal to the character of the judge. And, fur- ther, if among the many who have handled the theme, one writer fails from lack of earnestness and and another from of his- religious insight ; deficiency toric knowledge or metaphysical power, or general culture and a third from sheer and vio- ; prejudice a2 lence a fourth a half-miconsclous of ; and from spirit reticence or then he who even perversion ; attempts a partial accomplishment of the task wherein they have failed, may well have cause to fear lest he be only adding one more to the list of those who, by reason of one or more of these faults, have done little or nothing for the real edification of their readers. The present writer is deeply conscious that he is in danger of exhibiting, in a more or less marked degree, almost every single one of the dis- qualifications to which he has just adverted. Never- theless, it remains true that the thoughts on the Reformation which are here set forth, are not the result of mere haste or passion. Himself a critic of other men's writings he does not shrink from having his own pages criticized in turn. He only asks for them a consideration valeant patient ; quantum valeant : henedicat Benedictus ! There are fewj if any, who are fitted to discuss so important a subject as the Reformation in all its bearings. I propose, as the title of this pamphlet implies, to glance at some aspects only. In many cases the glance may be but superficial, either fi'om sheer lack of space or from the imperfect state of the author's knowledge, or failure of ability to grasp the points at issue. Yet, even in such cases, one may be able to suggest some better sources of infor- mation which those, who will, may study at their 5 leisure. For tlie present, let us limit our gaze by certain self-cliosen boundaries. I propose to my readers that we should consider the Eeformation in its relation to I. The mediaeval Church as exhibited in life and practice. II. The character of the Eeformers and the mediaeval current doctrines. III. The question of authority. IV. The Eenaissance. V. Toleration and political liberty. VI. The history of the last hundred years, 1769- 1869. VII. The Church of the Future. Without further preface I launch this little bark on a some- what bold, if not desperate, voyage of inquiry. " I. To begin by asking the question, What was the relation of the Reformation to the mediaeval Church," may call forth the very natural inquiry, "Why go so far back?" or "Why not go much further ?" I My answer is, that do not go further to save time and from back, partly space ; and, partly, a conviction that the great movement of the six- teenth century commenced, if it did not conclude, with an attack on certain features of the religion of the day, which were peculiar (at least in their form^ if not in their essence) to mediaeval, as distinct from primitive Christianity.* But we must turn our * Since writing the above, I have met with the following words in a Lecture delivered by a Eoman Catholic, Mr. H. W. Wilber- " ' force : Hence Miiller's remark that The Eeformation was at first a reaction, not so much against Catholicism as against its " medicsval mode.'' Essays on Religion, ^c, edited by Abp. Man- ning, 2nd Series, p. 341. glance for a few moments upon the great and mag- nificent structure of mediaevalism, because in the examination of an important historical event^ it is simply impossible to form anything like a just con- ception of its nature, unless the annals of at least one previous century be fairly known. The character of the mediaeval Church, as repre- sented by current literature, has passed through three phases during the last hundred and twenty the of hatred and the years ; phase contempt ; phase of admiration and the of what rising respect ; phase must appear to many to be an almost excessive degree of eulogy and homage. It is necessary to comment briefly upon each. The phase of hatred and contempt was probably rendered European by '' the influence of Voltaire, whose work on the Man- ners (mcEurs) and Character of Nations" appeared about 1757. To him and to his followers on the Continent, to Hume and to his followers in Britain, is specially, we imagine, to be ascribed that temper of mind which could see nothino; in Becket but the of but in spirit priestcraft 5 nothing hair-splitting the of Scotus and philosophy Anselm, Aquinas ; but in the letters of Hildebrand nothing pedantry ; but insolence in the of Innocent III, nothing sway ; little besides in Dante and no in obscurity 5 beauty the Gothic arch and vaulted cathedral.
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