The Lives of the Puritans: Containing a Biographical Account of Those Divines who Distinguished Themselves in the Cause of Religious Liberty, from the Reformation Under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of Uniformity in 1662, 1. köideJ. Black, 1813 - 18 pages |
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... allowed to labour for their spiritual and eternal advantage , were obliged to spend the best of their days in silence , imprison- ment , or a state of exile in a foreign land . The contents of these volumes tend to expose the evil of ...
... allowed to labour for their spiritual and eternal advantage , were obliged to spend the best of their days in silence , imprison- ment , or a state of exile in a foreign land . The contents of these volumes tend to expose the evil of ...
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... allowed and established in the national church , * were the most zealous advocates of the reform- ation ; and they used their utmost endeavours to carry on the glorious work towards perfection . They could not , with a good conscience ...
... allowed and established in the national church , * were the most zealous advocates of the reform- ation ; and they used their utmost endeavours to carry on the glorious work towards perfection . They could not , with a good conscience ...
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... allowed in the use of the common prayer , the contentions and divisions which afterwards followed , would no doubt have been prevented . But as the case then stood , it was almost miraculous that the reformation did not fall back to ...
... allowed in the use of the common prayer , the contentions and divisions which afterwards followed , would no doubt have been prevented . But as the case then stood , it was almost miraculous that the reformation did not fall back to ...
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... allowed and established in the church of England . All were stigmatized by this name , who distin- guished themselves in the cause of religious liberty , and who could not in all points conform to the ecclesiastical establishment . In ...
... allowed and established in the church of England . All were stigmatized by this name , who distin- guished themselves in the cause of religious liberty , and who could not in all points conform to the ecclesiastical establishment . In ...
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... allowed them by the laws of the land , refused the canonical subscription , as a most grievous usurpation over their consciences ; for which great numbers were turned out of their livings . This led them to preach in other churches , or ...
... allowed them by the laws of the land , refused the canonical subscription , as a most grievous usurpation over their consciences ; for which great numbers were turned out of their livings . This led them to preach in other churches , or ...
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Page 179 - Almighty and everliving God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these Thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins...
Page 157 - Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 177 - Religion agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord...
Page 143 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates.
Page 361 - This is the corpse of Roger Rippon, a servant of Christ, and her majesty's faithful subject ; who is the last of sixteen or seventeen which that great enemy of God, the archbishop of Canterbury, with his high commissioners, have murdered in Newgate within these five years, manifestly for the testimony of Jesus Christ...
Page 94 - I will be true and faithful to the Common-wealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords...
Page 205 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 449 - Elizabeth, gave the best reason that could be given for wearing the longest and largest beard of any Englishman of his time ; namely, " that no act of his life might be unworthy of the gravity of his appearance.
Page 284 - And that no man shall think that any detriment shall come to Children by deferring of their Confirmation, he shall know for truth that it is certain, by God's word, that Children, being baptized, have all things necessary for their salvation, and be undoubtedly saved.
Page 71 - Star-Chamber enlarge their jurisdictions to a vast extent, ' holding (as Thucydides said of the Athenians) for honourable that which pleased and for just that which profited.' And being the same persons in several rooms, grew both courts of law to determine right, and courts of revenue to bring money into the Treasury : the Council-Table by proclamations enjoining...