A History of the Reformation On the Continent in Three Volumes volume 3
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Fol. 137. CH. XXXVIII. ] MELANCTHON. 125 their control, would by the exercise of their authority gradually get rid of all inconveniences, provided only they would consent to restore the ecclesiastical disci- pline so long neglected. Surely it would be a work of virtue, agreeable to God and worthy of distinguished men, to heal these disorders by reason, rather than to excite fearful tumults, which even those of most influence may not afterwards find it easy to repress. " In this singular documen...t we find Melancthon plead- ing, as if he were at heart the friend and ally of the papal establishment ; and we cannot forbear to observe, as was unsparingly observed by his contemporaries, * that, had he deliberately designed an act of treachery, had he calmly purposed to deliver up the sacred cause, then especially committed to his charge, to the mercy of the enemy, and that too in the manner most certain to terminate in its destruction, he would have suggested exactly that policy, precisely those expedients, which are * " Non credis quanto in odio sim (said Melancthon, Epist.
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