 There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than *ny aggression of a foreign Sovereign — clergymen of our own Church who have subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles, and acknowledged in explicit terms the •Queen's supremacy, have been the most...  Annual Register - Page 189edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - Great Britain - 1895 - 412 pages
...Was he mistaken in principle ? He saw clergymen of the English Church, Protestant at least in name, ' leading their flocks step by step to the very verge of the precipice,' and he took up his parable against them, and pointed out the danger to the hitherto accepted faith... | |
 | Wilfrid Ward - Oxford movement - 1897 - 616 pages
...assumptions of power deliberately considered. There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggression of a foreign Sovereign. Clergymen of our...saints, the claim of infallibility for the Church, the superstitlous use of the sign of the Cross, the muttering of the Liturgy so as to disguise the language... | |
 | Walter Walsh - Evangelicalism - 1900 - 454 pages
...Bishop of Durham his lordship said : — "There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggression of a foreign Sovereign. Clergymen of our...in explicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been most forward in leading their flocks 'step by step to the very verge of the precipice.' The honour... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - Great Britain - 1910 - 402 pages
...Church, and recommending auricular confession and the administration of penance and absolution, had been 'the most forward in leading their flocks, step by step, to the very verge of the precipice.' This attack upon the Puseyites, with some commonplaces about 'the glorious principles and the immortal... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - England - 1910 - 428 pages
...Church, and recommending auricular confession and the administration of penance and absolution, had been 'the most forward in leading their flocks, step by step, to the very verge of the precipice.' This attack upon the Puseyites, with some commonplaces about 'the glorious principles and the immortal... | |
 | Anne Pollen - Artists - 1912 - 502 pages
...by the danger within the gates from the unworthy sons of the Church of England herself who have led their flocks, step by step, to the very verge of the precipice . . . [and he relies] with confidence on the people of England ... a nation which looks with scorn... | |
 | Peter Christopher Yorke - 1913 - 332 pages
...reserved for the Tractarians, whom he accused of doing the work of Rome within the Establishment and of leading their flocks "step by step to the very verge of the precipice." The time of the letter was well chosen. The 5th of November is the grand Carnival of the Ghosts. Lord John... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Great Britain - 1915 - 344 pages
...home : " clergymen, who have acknowledged in explicit terms the Queen's supremacy," had yet been " leading their flocks step by step to the very verge of the precipice." The cry of " No Popery " rang through the land. There were clamorous meetings, and addresses to the Crown... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1898 - 618 pages
...significantly to ' clergymen of our own Church, who have subscribed the Thirty Nine Articles,' yet • have been the most forward in leading their flocks,...step by step, to the very verge of the precipice.' Among these Dr. Pusey might well seem the chief offender. He was now far advanced, but on a path of... | |
 | Denis G. Paz - History - 1992 - 364 pages
...shows sheep milling about near a cliff, reminds one of the Durham Letter's remarks about clergymen leading their flocks "step by step to the very verge of the precipice." This painting even includes two black sheep, one of which is pushing a white sheep over the cliffs... | |
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