“This is the work of God, not of us. Here I stand; here I sit; here I remain; here I glory; here I triumph; here I insult papists, Thomists, Henricists, sophists, and all the gates of Hell, and also the sayings of men even though holy, and erring custom. God’s word is above all; God’s power so strengthens me that I should not care if a thousand Augustines, a thousand Cyprians, a thousand Henrician Churches were opposed to me.” (Contra Henricum regem, Opera Lat. Ed. Franc. VI. 437.) But when the papists
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