The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II...John Murray, 1854 - Constitutional history |
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Page 160 - III. We shall with the same sincerity, reality and constancy, in our several vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and privileges of the Parliaments, and the liberties of the kingdoms...
Page 379 - Pleasure to be, that the Execution of all, and all manner of Penal Laws in Matters Ecclesiastical, against whatsoever Sort of Non-Conformists or Recusants, be immediately suspended, and they are hereby suspended...
Page 330 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the book of common prayer.
Page 16 - ... and by law compel the doing thereof, in case of refusal or refractoriness? And whether, in such case, is not the king the sole judge both of the danger, and when and | how the same is to be prevented and avoided...
Page 292 - that according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this Kingdom, the government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 309 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Page 225 - For though, in the times of madness and anarchy, the commons once passed a vote (g), " that whatever is enacted or declared for law by the Commons in parliament assembled hath the force of law ; and all the people of this nation are concluded thereby, although the consent and concurrence of the king or house of Peers be not had thereto ;" yet, when the constitution was restored in all its forms, it was particularly enacted by statute 13 Car.
Page 159 - Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed Churches ; and we shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in religion, confession of faith, form of Church government, directory for worship and catechising, that we, and our posterity after us, may, as brethren, live in faith and love, and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us.
Page 218 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are : for blood it defileth the land : and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 216 - That it was our duty, if ever the Lord brought us back again in peace, to call Charles Stuart, that man of blood, to an account for that blood he had shed, and mischief he had done to his utmost, against the Lord's Cause and People in these poor Nations.