 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pages
...I cannot and will not recant ; for it is neither safe nor expedient to act against conscience. Here I take my stand ; I can do no otherwise, so help me God ! Amen." He left Worms, in fact, a conqueror ; but it was so manifest that his enemies were determined upon... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1831 - 630 pages
...I cannot and will not recant ; for it is neither safe nor expedient to act against conscience. Here I take my stand ; I can do no otherwise, so help me God ! Amen." He left Worms, in fact, a conqueror ; but it was so manifest that his enemies were determined upon... | |
 | 1845 - 952 pages
...the assembly before which he stood, and which held his life in its hands, he said : — ' HERE I TAM MY STAND. I CAN DO NO OTHERWISE - SO HELP ME GOD ! AMEN !' " , book vii. ch. 9. Considering the object which we have in view in preparing these papers, we... | |
 | Edward Feilde - 1847 - 210 pages
...look round the assembly before which he stood, and which held his life in its hands, he said, " Here I take my stand, I can do no otherwise, so help me God '. Amen." His love of truth, his fortitude, and his constancy procured, under God, that freedom from the yoke... | |
 | Charles C. Savage - 1856 - 624 pages
...I can not or will not recant ; for it ie neither safe nor expedient to act against conscience. Here I take my stand ; I can do no otherwise, so help me God! Amen." He left Worms, in fact, a conqueror; but it was so manifest that his enemies were determined upon his... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1857 - 750 pages
...-I cannot and will not recant; for it is neither safe nor expedient to act against conscience. Here I take my stand ; I can do no otherwise, so help me God I Amen." .Irritated at his unbending spirit, some of the ecclesiastics present had the baseness to... | |
 | Gustav Ferdinand Leopold König, Julius Charles Hare, Susanna Winkworth - 1857 - 266 pages
...evident reasons * * * I neither can nor dare retract anything ; for my conscience is held captive by God's Word, and it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. Here I take my stand. I can do no otherwise. So help me God !" On the following day the Emperor brought... | |
 | David Caldwell - 1859 - 592 pages
...I cannot and will not retract; for it is neither safe nor expedient to act against conscience. Here I take my stand; I can do no otherwise, so help me God! Amen." Luther's was but a single voice against the world; but how its tones rung through the earth, startling... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1859 - 536 pages
...can not and will not recant ; for it is neither safe nor expedient to act against conscience. Here I take my stand. I can do no otherwise, so help me God, Amen." In this sublime moral conflict Luther came off the undisputed conqueror. The legates of the pope, exasperated... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1860 - 388 pages
...convinced by Scripture and reason, I neither can nor dare retract anything ; for my conscience is a captive to God's word, and it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. Here I take my stand ; I can do no otherwise. So help me God." Paul himself might have spoken the brave... | |
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Unless I be convinced," he said, "by Scripture and reason, I neither can nor dare retract anything, for my conscience is a captive to God's word, and it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. There I take my stand. I can do no otherwise.... 
