All the reformations taken together fall far short of this standard.
They have been reformations only in part, each movement simply placing special emphasis on particular doctrines, or ordinances, or personal experiences.
I have also shown that the reformations of Protestantism have tended to the correction of that first phase pertaining to doctrine, but that a complete reformation requires the elimination of ecclesiasticism.
The present movement embraces all the truth contained in all the previous reformations of Protestantism.
Many reformations have come to the religious world since the decline of the apostolic church from its pristine glory of the first century.
Forcible reformations of manners, and, still more, of religion, never last, but are sure to be followed by violent rebounds to the old order.
Many religious and moral reformations depend for their vitality on one man, and droop if his influence be withdrawn.
Lincoln Depopulators fined and pardoned and thereformations to be made.
The English Reformation differed in one most essential point, be it for good, be it for evil, from all the other Reformations of Europe.
Our most western reformations began with the ignorant mob; and when numbers of them were gained, interest and party views drew in the wise and great.
Where both methods can be used, reformations are likely to be more speedy.
Early reformations are amicable arrangements with a friend in power; late reformations are terms imposed upon a conquered enemy: early reformations are made in cool blood; late reformations are made under a state of inflammation.
You remember that the nation was in a delirium of joy on the convocation of the Notables, and on the various reformations agreed on between them and the government.
The constitutional reformations have gone on well, but those of expenses make little progress.
They began to prepare grounds for questioning their legality, as a rod over the head of the States, and as a refuge if they should really extend their reformations to them.
The Emperor's reformations have occasioned the appearance of insurrection in Flanders, and he, according to character, will probably tread back his steps.
It is said these reformations will amount to eighty millions.
Necessary reformations may hereafter require, as they have frequently done in former times, limitations and abridgments, and in some cases an entire extinction, of some branch of prerogative.
But I am sure that it has no share at all in the reflections I shall make upon it, or in the reformations that I shall propose.
Farewell, then, all our useful improvements of canals and roads, reformations of laws, and other rational employments.
You remember that the nation was in a delirium of joy on the convocation of the Notables, and on the various reformations agreed on between them and the government.
Bossuet[296] thinks with reason, that the heresies and schisms of this century might have been prevented, if necessary reformations had not been neglected.
Philosophers and statesmen believe it to be the work of their own hands; they did not make it, but they have for three hundred years been unmaking it by reformations and revolutions.
Philosophers and statesmen believe it to be the work of their own hands: they did not make it; but they have for three hundred years been unmaking it by reformations and revolutions.
I cannot think of acceding to it, because I have seen so clearly that my pen, at least, must be employed in the great reformations of the day, and if I engaged in a school, my time would not be my own.
In the famous Dartmoor prison and at Borstal in Kent experiments are being made to secure a greater number of reformations among the younger convicts.
The aim of reformations is absolutely essential to any good degree of public protection from crimes.
But the reformation of prisoners is only a small fraction in the reformations which are called for.
Should prisoners be treated with proper tenderness, instead of being tortured as they are, thirty reformations would take place where one does not now.
I do not expect any great improvement in our prisons, till I see great reformations out of them.
The last was thought to trip too lightly over the constitutional reformations which were expected.
Your sorrow and reformationswill not complete the sum, no, nor begin it.
A Sovereign may make reformations in his kingdom, and his subjects be never the better for them; he is the only gainer by the change.
Prussia, with all the reformations made there, does not find itself more happy.
That is the history of this innovation, beginning with books, proposing pitiful reformations in clothes, and cookery, and law chicanery.
All the reformations which go before this last great reform will only be partial and temporary.
And though in places some were put to death for refusing to worship the image of the beast that lifeless professors had set up, yet there were from time to time reformations that resurrected many people to life in Christ.
They are at best a reformation of Popery, and only reformations in part.
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