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English Reformers
WE MAY DEFINE THE ENGLISH REFORMERS AS THOSE ENGLISH men who, in the half century that began about 1520, con
fessed that Jesus Christ is the complete and only mediator between God and men, and who therefore endeavored so to shape the doctrine and practice of the Church that her earthly existence should correspond to the truth of his existence. In this definition we place the Reformation within the sphere of faith in Jesus Christ, of repentance for sin, of love for the neighbor, of looking above the bewildering turmoils of sixteenth-century England to the eternal and unchanging Kingdom of Heaven; within the sphere of the Church and of assembling together to worship God, and therefore of the ministry and of reading and expounding the Bible and for this reason once again of faith, hope, and love; within the sphere of being baptized and of receiving the Holy Communion, of singing hymns and of praying in private and in public; within the sphere of obedience to God's demands and commands and of a rightly ordered moral life in private and in society. It is admittedly considerably easier to recognize (or think we recognize!)
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