Evangelical Biography: Or, An Historical Account of the Lives & Deaths of the Most Eminent and Evangelical Authors Or Preachers, Both British and Foreign, in the Several Denominations of Protestants, from the Beginning of the Reformation to the Present Time ...W. Baynes, 1816 - Christian biography |
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... error on the other ? And these , we may expect , will draw upon us ( as they did upon the Churches of Asia ) the dreadful scourges of GOD , by outward calamities , and in the progress of inward blind- ness or abandonment . Every man ...
... error on the other ? And these , we may expect , will draw upon us ( as they did upon the Churches of Asia ) the dreadful scourges of GOD , by outward calamities , and in the progress of inward blind- ness or abandonment . Every man ...
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... errors and corruptions ; and the whole church was de- generated from its primitive purity by the artifices of the monks , who had polluted the clear stream of religion with the rank weeks of superstition . The clergy had engrossed the ...
... errors and corruptions ; and the whole church was de- generated from its primitive purity by the artifices of the monks , who had polluted the clear stream of religion with the rank weeks of superstition . The clergy had engrossed the ...
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... errors of the friars , who justified their begging trade , by asserting , that the poverty of Christ , and his apostles , made them possess all things in common , and beg for a livelihood . This opinion was first opposed by Richard ...
... errors of the friars , who justified their begging trade , by asserting , that the poverty of Christ , and his apostles , made them possess all things in common , and beg for a livelihood . This opinion was first opposed by Richard ...
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... errors : He shewed their corruptions , and de- tected their practices . This was striking at the root of all the abuses which had crept into the church ; at a time when the greater and more necessary articles of faith , and all genuine ...
... errors : He shewed their corruptions , and de- tected their practices . This was striking at the root of all the abuses which had crept into the church ; at a time when the greater and more necessary articles of faith , and all genuine ...
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... errors ⚫ and containing manifest heresy ; some of which appeared to be the same with those of Marsilius of Padua , and John de Gandun , condemned by Pope John XXII . ' In the bull to the university , he says , the heretical pravity of ...
... errors ⚫ and containing manifest heresy ; some of which appeared to be the same with those of Marsilius of Padua , and John de Gandun , condemned by Pope John XXII . ' In the bull to the university , he says , the heretical pravity of ...
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Page 520 - And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, who .was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious ; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 234 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs ,and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 331 - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Page 116 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Page 234 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Page 115 - But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all them that believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God...
Page 119 - Master Bilney, or rather Saint Bilney, that suffered death for God's word sake ; the same Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge ; for I may thank him, next to God, -for that knowledge that I have in the word of God.
Page 400 - This venerable old man knowing how his abilities were impaired by age, and that it was impossible for him to recollect all those reasons which had directed him in the choice of his religion, left his companions who were in the full possession of their parts and learning, to baffle and confound their antagonists by the force of reason.
Page 139 - Nicholson ; * but, in order to avoid the dangers which threatened him in the latter part of his life on a religious account, he assumed the sirname of Lambert. It does not appear when he was born, though it may be presumed to have been about the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, as he suffered for the cause of truth in the year 1538.
Page 343 - I heartily thank you of your good will. I have hearkened to your words and marked well your counsels. And to be plain with you, I do perceive that I have been deceived myself, and am like to deceive a great many of Hadley, of their expectation. With that word they all rejoiced. Yea, good master doctor, quoth the sheriff, God's blessing on your heart: hold you there still.