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Page iii
... CHURCH IN ENGLAND WHICH CLAIMS TO REPRESENT THE BRAVE AND GENTLE PRESBYTERIANS OF 1665 , THIS TALE OF THE TRUE CHIVALRY OF THOSE TIMES Is respectfully Suscribed . PREFACE . ON no period of English history has so ΤΟ ...
... CHURCH IN ENGLAND WHICH CLAIMS TO REPRESENT THE BRAVE AND GENTLE PRESBYTERIANS OF 1665 , THIS TALE OF THE TRUE CHIVALRY OF THOSE TIMES Is respectfully Suscribed . PREFACE . ON no period of English history has so ΤΟ ...
Page vii
... Church of England , with a fate which seems to pursue her like her shadow , contained within her ample breast the greatest variety of opinions . The High Church clergy were at the head of the greater bulk , which softened down , as it ...
... Church of England , with a fate which seems to pursue her like her shadow , contained within her ample breast the greatest variety of opinions . The High Church clergy were at the head of the greater bulk , which softened down , as it ...
Page viii
... church- manship , and gives the genius of the people so much room to develop itself , while still within the ... Church which professes to be undivided ; and out of that pale , in the freer regions of Dissent , multiplying in constant ...
... church- manship , and gives the genius of the people so much room to develop itself , while still within the ... Church which professes to be undivided ; and out of that pale , in the freer regions of Dissent , multiplying in constant ...
Page ix
... Church two thou- sand of her most exemplary clergymen ; not bigots - not fanatics - not the bold , strong , uncompromising men , who in Scotland denounced their successors as hirelings , and proclaimed themselves lawful pastors still of ...
... Church two thou- sand of her most exemplary clergymen ; not bigots - not fanatics - not the bold , strong , uncompromising men , who in Scotland denounced their successors as hirelings , and proclaimed themselves lawful pastors still of ...
Page x
... Church were to Scotland- how the men who strongly resisted them all , should have been able to cast away every thing earthly , rather than submit to their imposition ; but when we look upon these milder men when we see Philip Henry ...
... Church were to Scotland- how the men who strongly resisted them all , should have been able to cast away every thing earthly , rather than submit to their imposition ; but when we look upon these milder men when we see Philip Henry ...
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