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... BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH AND HIS CLERGY Feb. , 1811 Aug. , Oct. , 1813 PAG 20 214 Feb. , 1813 226 232 April , 1814 235 Dec. , 1818 241 " " " " 253 Mar. , 1819 258 July , " 267 Oct. , 280 " " " " " " 287 Jan. , 1820 294 " 301 " " Νου ...
... BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH AND HIS CLERGY Feb. , 1811 Aug. , Oct. , 1813 PAG 20 214 Feb. , 1813 226 232 April , 1814 235 Dec. , 1818 241 " " " " 253 Mar. , 1819 258 July , " 267 Oct. , 280 " " " " " " 287 Jan. , 1820 294 " 301 " " Νου ...
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... bishop , a higher dignity in the church than was ever attained by any of her sex since the days of Pope Joan ; and that , though she swindles Delphine out of her estate with a considerable degree of address , her dexterity sometimes ...
... bishop , a higher dignity in the church than was ever attained by any of her sex since the days of Pope Joan ; and that , though she swindles Delphine out of her estate with a considerable degree of address , her dexterity sometimes ...
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... bishops ; and that the acts prohibiting the clergy to hold or cultivate land should be , in a great measure ... bishop has frequently a very temporary interest in his diocese : he has favours to ask ; and he must grant them . 50 ...
... bishops ; and that the acts prohibiting the clergy to hold or cultivate land should be , in a great measure ... bishop has frequently a very temporary interest in his diocese : he has favours to ask ; and he must grant them . 50 ...
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... Bishops are frequently men advanced in years , or immersed in study . A single person who compels many others to do their duty has much odium to bear and much activity to exert . A bishop is subject to caprice and enmity and passion ...
... Bishops are frequently men advanced in years , or immersed in study . A single person who compels many others to do their duty has much odium to bear and much activity to exert . A bishop is subject to caprice and enmity and passion ...
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... bishops to remain precisely as they are . These indulgences would leave the clergy without excuse , would reduce the informations to a salutary number , and diminish the odium consequent upon them , by directing their effects against ...
... bishops to remain precisely as they are . These indulgences would leave the clergy without excuse , would reduce the informations to a salutary number , and diminish the odium consequent upon them , by directing their effects against ...
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Page 385 - The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 213 - But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
Page 7 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 133 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland; or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles II.; and their Majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a Parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 249 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 213 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Page 13 - ... was discovered, with Dr. Langford's discourse lying open before him, in a state of the most profound sleep ; from which he could not, by any means, be awakened for a great length of time. By attending, however, to the rules prescribed by the Humane Society, flinging in the smoke of tobacco, applying hot flannels, and carefully removing the discourse itself to a great distance, the critic was restored to his disconsolate brothers.
Page 43 - ... eagerness and avidity with which they run to them when arrived, in hopes of a rich cargo ; the vast numbers of jewellers, brokers, merchants of all colours and all descriptions, both natives and foreigners, who are occupied in some way or other with the pearls, some separating and assorting them, others weighing and ascertaining their number and value, while others are hawking them about, or drilling and boring them for future use ; — all these circumstances tend to impress the mind with the...
Page 438 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law...
Page 171 - ... is not uncommon at her age, by idle nursery stories; but when engaged by concern for her father, she stumbled over the graves every night alone, without fear of any kind entering her thoughts, but for soldiers and parties in search of him, which the least noise or motion of a leaf put her in terror for.