The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1849 |
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... Church , was in the work of crushing the Puritans , and of teaching her disciples to give unto Cæsar the things which were Cæsar's . She had been pillaged and oppressed by the party which preached an austere morality . She had been ...
... Church , was in the work of crushing the Puritans , and of teaching her disciples to give unto Cæsar the things which were Cæsar's . She had been pillaged and oppressed by the party which preached an austere morality . She had been ...
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... Church of Eng- land . We have now , ' said a loyal preacher , on the following Sunday , for our Church the word of a king , and of a king who was never worse than his word ! ' A bad omen , however , was furnished by the elevation of Sir ...
... Church of Eng- land . We have now , ' said a loyal preacher , on the following Sunday , for our Church the word of a king , and of a king who was never worse than his word ! ' A bad omen , however , was furnished by the elevation of Sir ...
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... Church lectured them on the guilt of rebellion and on the importance of priestly absolution . The claim of the king to unbounded authority in things temporal , and the claim of the clergy to the spiritual power of binding and loosing ...
... Church lectured them on the guilt of rebellion and on the importance of priestly absolution . The claim of the king to unbounded authority in things temporal , and the claim of the clergy to the spiritual power of binding and loosing ...
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... Church of England conforming their practice to their theory . It had , he knew , been proclaimed from ten thousand pulpits , it had been solemnly declared by the Univer- sity of Oxford , that even tyranny as frightful as that of the ...
... Church of England conforming their practice to their theory . It had , he knew , been proclaimed from ten thousand pulpits , it had been solemnly declared by the Univer- sity of Oxford , that even tyranny as frightful as that of the ...
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... Church . ' The Church entertained the most serious apprehensions . Her rulers were dismayed by the league projected against her , and re - acted the same part as had deluded the Presbyterians of the Restoration . We are not indisposed ...
... Church . ' The Church entertained the most serious apprehensions . Her rulers were dismayed by the league projected against her , and re - acted the same part as had deluded the Presbyterians of the Restoration . We are not indisposed ...
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Page 513 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 514 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory, which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt ; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language ; nobles, by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
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Page 623 - ... an act made in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled ' An Act for exempting their Majesties...
Page 3 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Page 4 - It will be my endeavour to relate the history of the people as well as the history of the government, to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects, and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners of successive generations...
Page 628 - Although by woful proof we find They always leave a scar behind. He knew the seat of paradise, Could tell in what degree it lies: And, as he was disposed, could prove it, Below the moon, or else above it. What Adam dreamt of when his bride Came from her closet in his side: Whether the Devil tempted her By a High Dutch interpreter...
Page 718 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 14 - I know you well. I will set a mark on you. You are the patron of the faction. This is an old rogue, a schismatical knave, a hypocritical villain. He hates the Liturgy. He would have nothing but long-winded cant without book ;" and then his lordship turned up his eyes, clasped his hands, and.
Page 209 - God, let us hold fast our profession; for we have not a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.