Lachrymae Ecclesiae: The Anglican Reformed Church and Her Clergy in the Days of Their Destitution and Suffering During the Great Rebellion in the Seventeenth Century

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W. J. Cleaver, 1844 - 340 pages
 

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Page 31 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 4 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Page xiii - Jesus Christ ; and containing an original Harmony of the four Gospels, now first arranged in the Order of Time.
Page 45 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Page 64 - AND, for you, my dearly beloved Brethren, at home ; for Christ's sake, for the Church's sake, for your souls' sake, be exhorted to hold fast to this Holy Institution of your Blessed Saviour and his unerring Apostles ; and bless God for Episcopacy. Do but cast your eyes a little back, and see what noble instruments of God's glory he hath been pleased to raise up in this very Church of ours, out of this sacred vocation : what famous servants...
Page 138 - For, as on the. one side common experience sheweth, that where a change hath been made of things advisedly established (no evident necessity so requiring) sundry inconveniences have thereupon ensued ; and those many times more and greater than the evils, that were intended to be remedied by such change...
Page 123 - WHEN any person departeth this life, let the dead body, upon the day of burial, be decently attended from the house to the place appointed for public burial, and there immediately interred, without any ceremony.
Page 301 - I humbly beseech your Lordships to give me leave, to take this too just occasion to move your Lordships, to take into your deep and serious consideration the woeful and lamentable condition of the poor Church of England, your dear Mother. My Lords, this was not wont to be her stile. We have, heretofore, talked of the famous and flourishing Church of England : but, now, your Lordships must give me leave to say, that the poor Church of England humbly prostrates herself, next after his Sacred Majesty,...
Page 7 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and...
Page 230 - I received nothing, yet something was required of me. They were not ashamed, after they had taken away and sold all my goods and personal estate, to come to me for assessments and monthly payments for that estate which they had taken ; and took distresses from me upon my most just denial; and vehemently required me to find the wonted arms of my predecessors, when they had left me nothing.

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