THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY HISTORICAL LESSONS FROM THE REFORMATION by Alonzo Jones Books For The Ages AGES Software • Albany, OR USA Version 1.0 © 1997 2 LESSONS FROM THE REFORMATION. BY ALONZO T. JONES 3 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. The Reformation Renounced “A Solid Front”; Luther’s Disintegrating Doctrine; Not Against Rome; The Great Councils; Parallel with Rome; “State Aid”; Faithlessness. CHAPTER 2. What Is “Protestant?” The Edict of Worms; The Secular Arm; Luther’s Answer; Luther to the Emperor; Diet of Nuremberg; The Pope’s Confession; Germany’s Grievances; The Pope Threatens Frederick; Second Diet of Nuremberg; “The New Mohammed”; Confederations; “Save the Church”; The Word of God; Diet of Spires; Church Holidays Evil; The Deadlock; “Save the Empire; Religious Liberty; Papal Peace; Second Diet of Spires; Imperial Revolution; The Diet Stands Firm; Proposal of Compromise; The Crisis; “A Settled Affair”; The Protest; What Is Meant by True and Holy Church; The Protestants; What It Means. CHAPTER 3. What “Protestant” Means in America The Falling Away Begins; False Protestant; State Churches; Crime and Folly; Protest in Virginia; Virginia Freed; Madison Leads for Religious Liberty; Religious Freedom in Virginia; Natural Right; National Religious Freedom; Constitutional Guaranties; with American Principles; Reformation Principles; Character of Legal Religion; Fruits of Established Religion; Gospel Liberty; Washington for Religious Liberty; Individuality; Separation of Christianity and the State; The Christian Principle; A Hundred Preachers Deny It; The Glory of America; Changed the Face of the World; Rome’s Designs on America. 4 CHAPTER 4 What Caused The Reformation? Submission or Expulsion; The Church Militant; Ecclesiastical Monopoly; All for Money; Pardon of Sin for Money; The Papal Tax List; Quarrels Cultivated; The Inquisition; Compelling to Sinfulness; Dissolution of Marriages; “A Wide-Spread Contagion”; The Church Responsible; The Papal Pinnacle; Two Popes at Once; Papal Anarchy; Three Popes at Once; The Council of Constance; Pope John Deposed; “The Church” Saved by “The World”; Worse than the World; “The Tempest of Abomination”; “Ministers of The Beast”; The Pope is Told the Truth; “More Like a Step-Mother”; “The Ruin of the Word”; “Religion a Mine of Gold”; Papal Supremacy Complete; God Sent The Reformation. CHAPTER 5 The Reformation: and the Roman Church The Key of All; “Isn’t That The Church?”; “Stand by the Old Ship”; The Rise of the Reformation; Is That The Church?; Militz and Matthias; The Reformation is Regeneration; Oxford and Prague; God Defends The Reformation; Ziska: the Blind General; Miraculous Panics; “Negotiations”; The Reformation Given Away; The Faithful Ones; The Promises of Coming Day; Huss’s Dream; The Elector Frederick’s Dream; “Thou Art Come, O Desired One!”; Duke George Arraigns The Church; The Reformation or Rome; Rome or The Reformation. CHAPTER 6 The Reformation: and the Roman Church What Is The Church?; The True Church; The Divine Definition; The Church Is infinite; The Fulness of God; The Divine Concept; The Mystery of God; The Family of God; The Household of God; The Church in Heaven and Earth; The Pre-eminence; The Church of the 5 Universe; The Associations of The Church; The Antagonist of The Church; The Mystery of God Finished; The Rejoicing Universe. CHAPTER 7 The Reformation Head of The Church. Christ the Visible Head; The Visible Becomes Invisible; Christ Us; The Invisible Becomes Visible; “The World” Cannot See; “Ye See Me”; The “Visible Church”; A Visible Fraud; The True and the False Invisible. CHAPTER 8 The Reformation Building of The Church. The Foundation Stone; Receive Him; “Added to the Lord”; The Marriage Ceremony; “Added to The Church”; The Lord Does Not Cast Out; “The Church is thy House”; “The Churches of God”; The Single Assembly; God’s Building; The Crown of Creation. CHAPTER 9 The Reformation Guidance of The Church. The Spirit to Every One; The Head of Each One; Head Over All to The Church; The Gifts of the Spirit; Be No More Children; The Greco-Roman Obtrusion; The Colossal Presumption; Subject to Christ. CHAPTER 10 The Reformation Christian Unit The Roman “Mark of Unity”; The Christian Unity; The Christian Fellowship; All One in Christ Jesus; That the World May Know; The False Unity. 6 CHAPTER 11 The Reformation and the Bible The Roman Church and the Bible; The Scripture the Faith of The Church; Understanding The Scriptures; All Rules Are One; Freedom of Christians; The Enthralled Conscience; The Evil of Human Ordinances; Human Superstitions; Fundamental Principles; Nothing but the Word of God; All Duty is Commanded; Sanctification Through the Word. CHAPTER 12 The Reformation and The Gospel Righteousness by Faith; Christ Is All; “The Just Shall Live by Faith”; The Ten Commandments; The Purpose of The Law; Righteousness Without the Law; The Purpose of The Gospel; The Faith of Jesus; Into the Holiest; Unlawful Use of The Law. CHAPTER 13 The Reformation Christian Brotherliness The Universal Priesthood; The Primitive Dignity; Christian Liberty; The Highest Service; Authority to Preach; The Real Excommunication; The Divine Call; “Orders, Sects, and Parties, Fall”; Price of Loyalty to God; Simple Christianity; Princes of the Gentiles; The Church Not to Rule; “The Form of a Servant”; Christian Government; The Christian Ministry; Christian Dignity; All Are Ministers; “A Mischievous Insect”; The Nicolaitanes; Anti-pa-pas; “Which Thing I Hate”; The Greatest of All. CHAPTER 14 The Reformation Religious Liberty The Holy Empire Church; Spiritual Emperor: Secular Pope; The Sole Point of Issue; The Word Above The Church; The Church Off The Throne; “Unconditional Submission”; Submission Only to the Word; 7 Apostolic Religious Liberty; “Lord, Thou Art God”; “God Rather than Men”; Christian Religious Liberty; Bands and Fetters; Religious Liberty Itself. CHAPTER 15 The Reformation and the Papacy Wicklif on Antichrist; “The Chief Antichrist”; Militz on Antichrist; Militz Preaches in St. Peter’s; Matthias on Antichrist; The Cunning of Antichrist; False Miracles and Wonders; The Person of Antichrist; Huss on Antichrist; Luther on Antichrist; Truth That Must be Told; The Bible on Antichrist; Against the Most High; Papacy Confirms the Prophecy; Rome Fastens It upon Herself; Divine Description of Rome; Jesus on the Prophecy; Paul on the Prophecy; Daniel and Paul; The Heavenly Things; The Sanctuary of Christianity; In Heaven itself; The Daily Ministry of Christ; Taken Away and Cast Down; The Daily Ministry of Rome; In Place of The True; Can Never Take Away Sin; Desolation and Abomination; The Secret of Rome’s Power; The Place of Satan’s Seat; The Throne of Satan; The Beast; The Ultimate Antichrist. CHAPTER 16 The Reformation and Federation The Splendid List; The Masterpiece of Christian Truth; Men Instead of Word and Spirit; The New England Theocracy; Extension of The Reformation; John Wesley on The Church; Wesley on the Papacy; The Reign of Satan; Wesley on the False Christian; Purpose of The Reformation; The Advent Movement; Culmination of The Reformation; Wm. Miller on The Church; The Name of “Adventists”; Sectarianism”; Christianity is Individual; Denominationalism; The Baptists and Federation; Object of the Federal Council; The Ecclesiastical Power; “Say Ye Not ‘A Confederacy’”; Individuality and Salvation. 8 CHAPTER 17 The Federal Council and The Reformation “Power Over Men”; The State Supplanted; The New Inquisition; Religious Legislation; The “Christian” Religion by Force; The fourth Commandment; What The Issue Is; Enforced Sabbath Observance; The Lord’s Day; Two Separate Things; A Sacerdotal State; Sunday Laws Religious Only; Union of Church and State; Both Days Observed; The Council of Friuli; Sunday First Called Sabbath; The Council of Trent; The Change Accomplished; The Rise of the Puritans; The Puritans’ Perplexity; The Puritan “Sabbath”; Queen Elizabeth; The Book of Sports; Charles I; The Sunday Law of Charles II; The “Model” Sunday Law Genealogy of Sunday Laws; The Federal Council Follows; History Repeating; The Reformation Principle; The Will and Worship of Rome; The sign of Rome; All the World Worships; All Denominations; Both Days “Free From All Work”; Rome’s Reign Enforced. CHAPTER 18 The Reformation and The Sabbath The Reformation Demands It; The Doctrine of Sunday; What Is The Sabbath; It Was Made for Adam; Christ the Only “Adam”; The Divine Sign; Knowledge of God; God as Revealed in The Sabbath; God as Revealed in Christ; The Sabbath Blessing; The Divine Parallel; The Bread of The Presence; The Sabbath “Remaineth”; Christ Is The Way; “As God Did”; What Sabbath Keeping Is; In the Lives of Christians; To the End of the Bible; After the Bible Closed; To the Eleventh Century; To the End; The Sign of Loyalty to God; Forevermore. CHAPTER 19. That Woman Jezebel Jezebel’s Reign; Jezebel Restored; The Crowning Evil; False Worship Enforced; The Mystery of Iniquity Finished; The Reformation Finished; The True Ones Delivered. 9 CHAPTER 20 The Two Women of Revelation No Daughter; Many Daughters; The Children of Babylon; The Children of Zion. CHAPTER 21 The Christian and Reformation Religious Liberty of The Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship National; Its Intent; Protects Inborn Rights; A New Charter of Liberty; Privileges and Immunities; It Means Religious Liberty; It Includes Sunday Laws; Washington Against Sunday Laws; Washington’s Letter; Every Sunday Law Void; The Constitution Disregarded; The Right of The People; The Twin Despotisms; Upon Principle Alone; Lincoln’s Work and Ours; Emancipation