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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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PROT'ESTANT, a. Pertaining to those who, at the reformation of religion,protested against a decree of Charles V. and the diet of Spires; pertaining to the adherents of Luther, or others of the reformed churches; as the protestant religion.
PROT'ESTANT, n. One of the party who adhered to Luther at the reformation in 1529, and protested, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from a decree of the emperor Charles V. and the diet of Spires, and appealed to a general council. This name was afterwards extended to the followers of Calvin, and Protestants is the denomination now given to all who belong to the reformed churches. The king of Prussia has, however, interdicted the use of this name in his dominions.
One
who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther,
and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a
decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529,
against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used
in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to
the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church.
Making a protest;
protesting.
Of or pertaining to the faith and practice
of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic
Church; as, Protestant writers.
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