PROTESTANT BAPTIST F.B MEYER SAYS THAT WE MAY SPEAK OF THE APOSTLE PAUL AS THE FIRST PROTESTANT:
“The Protestant faith, as we are all aware, existed some centuries before the name itself was coined. We may speak of St. Paul the Apostle as the chief Protestant, but fifteen centuries passed, until the 19th of April, 1629, when the Elector of Saxony headed a great deputation into the great hall of Spires in order to protest against the Emperor's decision to limit the rights of free liberty and religion.”
WHAT IS A PROTESTANT?
“These were called Protestants, and their followers derived the same title. The central thought in protest comes from the word testis, which, as you know, stands in the English for witness so that every time we read the word witness in our Bible the Roman Catholic reads testis in his Latin Vulgate. The prefix pro reminds us of how in the war with the Boers the word Pro Boer was constantly in use, standing for in behalf of, or on account of. Therefore when we use the word Protestant we really mean that we are bearing witness to something that is eternal, Divine, and that we stand for it, or on behalf of it, to propagate and maintain it.”
“In the first place, we bear our witness as Protestants to the fact that the soul of man may come into right relationship with God through the private study of the Word of God beneath the illuminating teaching, of the Spirit of God.”
“(2) But then secondly we surely stand and witness as Protestants that the Church is composed of all those who are directly united to our Lord, and that she is based not upon an Apostle, but upon the great statement that the Apostle made.”
From Sermon by Dr F. B. Meyer At the United Protestant Congress - London 1922
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INDEXES:
* CALVINIST INDEX
* PROTESTANT INDEX
* CH SPURGEON INDEX
* EVANGELISM INDEX
* HERE AND THERE INDEX
“The Protestant faith, as we are all aware, existed some centuries before the name itself was coined. We may speak of St. Paul the Apostle as the chief Protestant, but fifteen centuries passed, until the 19th of April, 1629, when the Elector of Saxony headed a great deputation into the great hall of Spires in order to protest against the Emperor's decision to limit the rights of free liberty and religion.”
WHAT IS A PROTESTANT?
“These were called Protestants, and their followers derived the same title. The central thought in protest comes from the word testis, which, as you know, stands in the English for witness so that every time we read the word witness in our Bible the Roman Catholic reads testis in his Latin Vulgate. The prefix pro reminds us of how in the war with the Boers the word Pro Boer was constantly in use, standing for in behalf of, or on account of. Therefore when we use the word Protestant we really mean that we are bearing witness to something that is eternal, Divine, and that we stand for it, or on behalf of it, to propagate and maintain it.”
“In the first place, we bear our witness as Protestants to the fact that the soul of man may come into right relationship with God through the private study of the Word of God beneath the illuminating teaching, of the Spirit of God.”
“(2) But then secondly we surely stand and witness as Protestants that the Church is composed of all those who are directly united to our Lord, and that she is based not upon an Apostle, but upon the great statement that the Apostle made.”
From Sermon by Dr F. B. Meyer At the United Protestant Congress - London 1922
END OF ARTICLE
INDEXES:
* CALVINIST INDEX
* PROTESTANT INDEX
* CH SPURGEON INDEX
* EVANGELISM INDEX
* HERE AND THERE INDEX
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