An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of James I. and Charles I. and of the Lives of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II...: From Original Writers and State-papers, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814 |
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Page ii
... ministerial labours , for the rest of his life , were confined to a very small congregation at Luppit in the neighbour- hood . To what denomination of dissenters he belonged we are not told . The strain of his discourses is said to have ...
... ministerial labours , for the rest of his life , were confined to a very small congregation at Luppit in the neighbour- hood . To what denomination of dissenters he belonged we are not told . The strain of his discourses is said to have ...
Page xix
... minister , one should think , who was animated by the meek and merciful spirit of the gos- pel , have set himself from the pulpit , to encourage the soldiers to storm a town , in which his brethren and countrymen were besieged . If ...
... minister , one should think , who was animated by the meek and merciful spirit of the gos- pel , have set himself from the pulpit , to encourage the soldiers to storm a town , in which his brethren and countrymen were besieged . If ...
Page xxv
... minister , who understood little of the law , but was very opinionative , and would frequently men- tion some proceedings of law in Holland , wherein he was altogether mistaken . " - The ignorance and inabi- lity of the man , with ...
... minister , who understood little of the law , but was very opinionative , and would frequently men- tion some proceedings of law in Holland , wherein he was altogether mistaken . " - The ignorance and inabi- lity of the man , with ...
Page xxix
... ministerial cha- racter . He must be a novice in the history of those times , who knows not what a precise , demure kind of men the preachers among the parliamentarians were . They were careful not only of their actions , but likewise ...
... ministerial cha- racter . He must be a novice in the history of those times , who knows not what a precise , demure kind of men the preachers among the parliamentarians were . They were careful not only of their actions , but likewise ...
Page xxxi
... ministers , who employed one most scandalous ? In short , how could they reward Peters pub- licly , when they always professed great zeal for godliness , and were for promoting it to the highest pitch ? Men of their wisdom can hardly be ...
... ministers , who employed one most scandalous ? In short , how could they reward Peters pub- licly , when they always professed great zeal for godliness , and were for promoting it to the highest pitch ? Men of their wisdom can hardly be ...
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Page 90 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 153 - Religion agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces, and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord God...
Page 45 - Sathan are most certainly practised, and that the instruments thereof merits most severely to be punished : against the damnable opinions of two principally in our age, whereof the one called Scot, an Englishman, is not ashamed in public print to deny that there can be such a thing as witchcraft ; and so maintains the old error of the Sadducees in denying of spirits.
Page 102 - Then Jack and Tom and Will and Dick shall meet, and at their pleasures censure me and my Council and all our proceedings. Then Will shall stand up and say, 'It must be thus'; then Dick shall reply and say, 'Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Page 48 - ... take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person...
Page 222 - Kings are justly called Gods, for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of Divine power upon earth. For if you will consider the Attributes to God, you shall see how they agree in the person of a King.
Page 228 - And although we cannot allow of the style, calling it your ancient and undoubted right and inheritance, but could rather have wished that ye had said that your privileges were derived from the grace and permission of our ancestors and us...
Page 30 - I charge you, my good people, ministers, doctors, elders, nobles, gentlemen and barons, to stand to your purity, and to exhort the people to do the same, and I forsooth, so long as I brook my life and crown, shall maintain the same against all deadly.
Page 45 - The fearful abounding, at this time, in this country, of these detestable slaves of the devil, the witches or enchanters, hath moved me (beloved reader) to dispatch, in post, this following Treatise of mine, not in any wise (as I protest) to serve for a...
Page 271 - Whosoever shall hereafter affirm, that the form of God's worship in the Church of England, established by law, and contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments, is a corrupt, superstitious, or unlawful worship of God, or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures...