The Position of Our Church: Or the True Sense of the Non-supremacy Clause of the New Oath

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Tyler, 1860 - Catholic emancipation - 295 pages

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Page 9 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 131 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 286 - And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Page 3 - Person, Crown, or Dignity; and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose and make known to...
Page 127 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, That I do make this Declaration and every part thereof in the plain and Ordinary Sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any Evasion, Equivocation or Mental Reservation whatsoever...
Page 83 - ... jurisdictions, powers, superiorities and authorities, and do promise, that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the Queen's Highness, her heirs and lawful successors, and to my power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions, pre-eminences, privileges, and authorities granted or belonging to the Queen's Highness, her heirs and successors, or united and annexed to the imperial crown of this realm. So help me God, and by the contents of this book.
Page 185 - Your beloved country has received a place among the fair Churches, which normally constituted, form the splendid aggregate of Catholic Communion : Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the Ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light and of vigour.
Page 131 - AB do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 131 - An Act for the more effectual preserving the king's person and government by disabling papists from sitting in either House of Parliament.
Page 113 - God and the world that our Sovereign Lord King George is lawful and rightful King of this realm and all other his Majesty's dominions and countries thereunto belonging. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare that I do believe in my conscience that...

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