Memoirs of the Life and Works of Lancelot Andrewes, Lord Bishop of Winchester

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J. Palmer, 1860 - 556 pages

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Page 74 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 384 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 484 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently." "Then, Sir," said he, "I think it is lawful for you to take my brother...
Page 358 - I have said, Ye are gods ; and all of you are children of the most high.
Page 235 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 455 - I WAS glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
Page 10 - Sacrifice, veri nominis, properly so called : that is, CHRIST'S death. And that Sacrifice but once actually performed, at His death : but ever before represented, in figure, from the beginning ; and ever since repeated, in memory, to the world's end. That only absolute ; all else relative to it, representative of it, operative by it.
Page 233 - But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: that he might redeem them who were under the law; that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Page 198 - 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 16 - God-ward : not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God...

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