A History of the English Episcopacy: From the Period of the Long Parliament to the Act of UniformityJ. W. Parker, 1836 - 363 pages |
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Page 108 - Nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, &c. as it stands now established, and as by right it ought to stand, nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the see of Rome.
Page 145 - and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness, lest we partake in other men's sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues : and that the Lord may be one, and his name one, in the three kingdoms.
Page 365 - OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH; from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine. By the late Rev. E BURTON, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford. Every history is more or less employed in detailing the different forms which religion has assumed,
Page 215 - spoke admirably, and confuted divers of them in their own learning; and sometimes, when they had cited a text of scripture to prove their assertion, he would tell them, Perhaps, in your little pocket Bibles with gilt leaves (which they would often pull out),
Page 151 - wanted not boldness, to the ignominy and scandal of their pastor-like profession, and especially of their boasted reformation, to seize into their hands, or, not unwillingly, to accept (besides one, sometimes two or more, of the best livings), collegiate masterships in the university, rich lectures in the city, setting sail to all winds that might blow gain into their covetous bosoms.
Page 256 - the words :—I, AB, do here, in the presence of God, the searcher of all hearts, take thee, CD, for my wedded wife; and do also, in the presence of God and before these witnesses, promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband:
Page 337 - Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which hast seduced so many precious souls; get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book, earth to earth, dust to dust; get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption."*
Page 32 - From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities, good Lord deliver us,
Page 108 - did many things which, in the best of times, might have been questioned, and therefore were sure to be condemned in the worst, and drew the same prejudice upon the whole body of the clergy, to which, before, only some few clergymen were exposed."*
Page 242 - unto the Lord, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever; who remembered us at Naseby, for his mercy,