On each side, therefore, the time was
thought favourable to the project of Reunion.
It was also favourable to it, that, a few years before this time, an
event had taken place, which naturally tended to put both sides into
good humour.
On the occasion of the marriage of the Princess Christina of
Wolfenbuttell, a Lutheran, with the archduke of Austria, her court
consulted the faculty of theology of the University of Helmstadt, on
the question,
"Whether a Protestant Princess, destined to marry a catholic
prince, could, without wounding her conscience, embrace the Roman
Catholic religion?" The faculty replied, that, "it could not answer
the proposed question, in a solid manner, without having previously
decided, whether the catholics were, or were not engaged in errors,
that were fundamental, and opposed to salvation; or, (which was the
same thing), whether the state of the catholic church was such,
that persons might practise in it, the true worship of God, and
arrive at salvation.
Pages:
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291