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Title: The hand of God in history, or, Divine providence illustrated in the extension and establishment of Christianity throughout the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Read, Hollis, 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : John E. Potter & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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erywhere trace the footsteps of God. When God is about to do a great work he first pje-pares his instniments. He selects and qualifies the menby whom he will accomplish his purposes. So he did, aswe have seen, when he was about to enlarge the bounda-ries of his church by adding to its domains the Americancontinent. The bold spirit of adventure which charac-terized the latter part of the fifteenth century, was an elec-tric shock to all Europe—as if an earthquake had shakenthe world, and raised from the midst of the ocean a greatcontinent. Hence such men as Columbus, the Cabots(xaspar Cortereal and Verrazzani. So, when He would,cut the cord that bound this infant nation to her motheiand wean her from her mothers milk, and remove heifrom the tuition of aristocrats and church dignitaries,God raised up for the purpose such men as FranklinHancock, Lee, Adams and Jefferson, and nerved thearm of our immortal Washington. And so it has beenin all the great outbreakings that have convulsed the
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LEADERS OP THE REFORMATION. 79 world to make way for the church. He prepared hiainstruments. It has been observed that great men appear in constellations. The truth is, they appear when, in providence,great occasions call for them. Great men are not onlymade hy the times, but are endowed and moulded by thehand of God for the times. But nowhere do we find somarked a providence in the preparation of instruments asin the case of the Reformation. The leaders were allmighty men. Each was a host. Yet of all thesemighties, Martin Luther was the mightiest. But wheT-se these giants, who, if they raise their voice,the earth trembleth—who shake the seven hills of Rome,and on their ruins rear a superstructure which reached tothe heavens ? Were they the scions of royalty—the sonsof wisdom or of might ? No. Martin Luther was takenfrom the cottage of a poor miner. Melancthon, the pro-found theologian and elegant scholar of the Reformationwas found in an armorers workshop. Zuinglius wassought out

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