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opposite effect of the desired religion.  Imposing uniformity is far worse than allowing a diversity of
               thought.  He was a proponent of allowing total religious freedom of thought and practice.

               In his The Reasonableness of Christianity, he argued that the beliefs of Christianity were rational and
               open to investigation.  He taught that through the revelation of Jesus Christ, man can find God.  He said
               that God revealed His Word through Jesus Christ, and this revelation is reasonable to the common mind.


                                 The French Revolution: Crash Course European History
                                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fJl_ZX91l0



               John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress – Published in 1678
                                                                               xvi

                                  One of the greatest Christian classics of all time came not from the halls of a great
                                  university, but from a jail cell.  John Bunyan lived during the reign of King Charles II.
                                  The King determined that the only acceptable church was the Anglican Church, and
                                  dissenters were jailed.  The King had passed laws that prevented any person from
                                  preaching without a state license.  Refusing the license, Bunyan was jailed in
                                  Bedford from 1661 to 1672 and was released for a short time.  In 1675 Bunyan
                                  again found himself in prison where he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress.  This humbly
                                  written work has touched thousands of lives and become one of the most famous
                                  classics of all time.




                            Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” is one of the most important books you can read besides
                            the Bible.  Have you read it?  It is called an allegory.  The characters and places described
                            in the book represent “real life” events in the life of a person who is seeking salvation
                            through Jesus Christ.

               The book tells a story of a man called Christian who lives in a city called “Destruction.”  The story
               chronicles the journey that Christian must make to arrive at the Celestial City (heaven).  He must first
               go to the Cross and have his sin burden taken away.  Then, on his journey, accompanied by other
               Pilgrims, he faces great difficulties as he seeks to become more like Christ.  If you have not read it, you
               are really missing out!

               Awakening at Herrnhut Launches Moravian Brethren,  1727
               Nikolas Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf 1700-60
                                                                  xvii

               The spiritual descendants of John Hus met on the estate of Count Nicholaus von
               Zinzendorf in 1727 and experienced a revival like no other in their days.  The Spirit of
               God was moving in their midst.  These 300 were refugees from various areas, some
               speaking different languages, but all fleeing from religious persecution.  The group,
               under the leadership of Zinzendorf, organized and in 1732, they branched out into
               foreign missions, sending Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann to the West Indies.

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