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Rev. Dr. Richard Frederick Littledale (1833-1890), in Innovations, (p. 16) writes:
“Two mendacious partisans, the infamous Foxe and the not much more respectable Burnet, have so overhauled all the history of the Reformation with falsehood, that it has been well nigh impossible for readers to get at the facts.”
Innovations: A Lecture Delivered in the Assembly Rooms, Liverpool, April 23, 1868
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Henry Mayers Hyndman (1842-1921), in Historical Basis of Socialism in England, 1883, (p. 14) writes:
“Protestant divines whose creed is the devil take the hindmost here and hereafter, fail to discover but luxury, debauchery, and hypocrisy in Church of the fifteenth century. It is high time that, without any prejudice in favor of that Church, the nonsense which has been foisted on to the public by men interested in suppressing the facts should be exposed. It is not true that the Church or our ancestors was the organized fraud which it suits fanatics to represent it.”
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Sir Francis Palgrave (1788-1861), in his History of Normandy and England, 1851, (Introduction, pp. 45-46) writes:
“…men who, instead of vindicating the Reformation by the advocacy of reverence for holy things, obedience, love, charity, sought to establish righteousness through vengeance, and in all things rendering evil for evil.”
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The Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster (1815-1881), in his Life and Letters (vol. 1, p. 151) writes:
“I am convinced that Protestantism treats Catholics with shameful ignorance and unfairness.”
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Dr. Schaff, in Political Ecclesiastical Conferences, U. S. p. 230 writes:
“The Roman Catholic Church is bemired from day to day with all possible calumnies.”
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“In scarcely a single instance has a case concerning them (Catholics) been fairly stated; the channels of history not grossly, not to say wickedly, corrupted.”
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Henry Hallam, in his Introduction to the History of Literature in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (in 4 vols.), vol. 1, 1880, p. 305-307 writes:
"Whatever may be the bias of our minds as to the truth of Luther’s doctrines, we should be careful in considering the Reformation as part of the history of mankind, not to be misled by the superficial and ungrounded representations which we sometimes find in modern writers.
“Such as this, that Luther, struck by the absurdity of the prevailing superstitions, was desirous of introducing a more rational system of religion; or that he contended for freedom of inquiry, and the boundless privileges of individual judgment; or what others have pleased to suggest, that his zeal for learning and ancient philosophy led him to attack the ignorance of the monks, and the crafty policy of the church, which withstood all liberal studies. These notions are merely fallacious refinements, as every man of plain understanding, who is acquainted with the early reformers, or has considered their history, must acknowledge.”
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GREATER AUTHORITY.
"The greatest of all writers on the reformation was Ludwig Pastor, a son of a sincere Lutheran father, who was prompted to write the history of the Popes (in German) after he read the historian [Leopold von] Ranke’s version.
"He asked for permission of Rome to do research work in the Vatican archives. Pope Leo XIII granted it, and
then threw open the Vatican archives and library to the historians of the world, claiming
the church has nothing to gain by hiding the truth.
"The average non-Catholic does not seem to know that
the Church has a Diary running back to the times of primitive Christianity and is, therefore, what was the belief and practice of the Church in every century from the council of Nice in the year 325.
“Pastor quotes from *more than 500 historians of many nationalities *to support what he writes in his Geschichte der Papste. Ahead of him Johann Janssen had written a work entitled History of the German People. He died after completing six volumes and Ludwig Pastor finished it in two more volumes. Pastor wrote his story objectively from data filed when and where took place, whether the same were favorable or unfavorable to the Church.”
Source: T
he Martin Luther Motion Picture: Unhistorical – Unbiblical – Unfair, a small pamphlet published by
Our Sunday Visitor, Nov. 18, 1953.
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