Protestantism was not only the privileged, but it was also the polite, creed; the creed of the upper classes, as distinguished from the creed of the potato-diggers and the turf-cutters; a view of the matter of which distinct traces may even yet be discovered in Ireland.

If Protestantism be the truth, knowledge of whatsoever kind can only further it.

Protestantism is the cause of England and Christianity, and civilisation, and freedom, and common sense, sir!

All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent.

Why should we fancy that Protestantism, like the Romanism which it opposes, is a plant that will not bear the light, and can only be protected at the expense of the knowledge of facts?

As a fact, Protestantism is more suited to the North, Catholicism to the South. Philalethes.

England is Protestantism, Protestantism is England.

If Protestantism be progress, the Danes were Protestant; while they had attained quite peculiar success and wealth in that small ownership and intensive cultivation which is very commonly a boast of Catholic lands.

In that age great power was given to princes; he doubtless could have reigned as a Protestant prince had he persevered for a few years longer, and Protestantism would have been the established religion of France, as it was of England under Elizabeth.

Protestantism is the doctrine of salvation by grace, and no writer has equaled Bunyan in making this doctrine understood."