In his 1769 book “The History of the Reign of Charles V” William Robertson wrote, “from having been viewed hitherto only as a religious sect, the Protestants of Germany came henceforth to be considered as a political body of no small consequence.” E.B. Elliott wrote, “it was their first great step, and that on the Imperial call (called by the Emperor - WJM) to political ascendancy.”
A few years later the 1552 Peace of Passau gave Protestantism full legal protection, and for the first time Protestants were permitted to become judges in the equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court — prior to that, only Roman Catholics were permitted that honor. The witnesses had ascended into the highest political heavens of Germany and shortly other nations as well — as their enemies beheld them with amazement and fear (Rev. 11:11).
One historian wrote, “An effect of (the Protestant Reformation) was to create in Europe two classes of states, Catholic and Protestant, and place them opposite each other.”
The earthquake of the Reformation split apart Romanism, both as a church and as a political power, and thundered throughout Europe. It shook the Papal power to its core and freed half of Europe. James Durham wrote, 'The earthquake “consisted mainly in the bearing down of the(Reformers') doctrine and profession.”
The Reformation “astonished and convulsed the nations of Europe, as one author has written. Protestantism soon became the official religion or at least very influential in many nations. Protestantism was in the ascension, Romanism in decline. And it continues to this day, just as Scripture says it would.
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