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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... authority of the crown , that the precious spark " of liberty had been kindled , and was preserved , ' by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect " that the English owe the whole freedom of their " constitution . " t 66 66 It is ...
... authority of the crown , that the precious spark " of liberty had been kindled , and was preserved , ' by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect " that the English owe the whole freedom of their " constitution . " t 66 66 It is ...
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... authorities . These might easily have been mul- tiplied ; but , when two or more authors have given accounts of the same facts , he has invariably chosen that which appeared the most authentic : * Calamy's Contin . vol . i . Pref . or ...
... authorities . These might easily have been mul- tiplied ; but , when two or more authors have given accounts of the same facts , he has invariably chosen that which appeared the most authentic : * Calamy's Contin . vol . i . Pref . or ...
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... authority , and became his avowed enemy . Being weary of Queen Katharine his wife , with whom he had lived almost twenty years ; and having long sought , but in vain , to be divorced by the pope , he was so much offended , that he ...
... authority , and became his avowed enemy . Being weary of Queen Katharine his wife , with whom he had lived almost twenty years ; and having long sought , but in vain , to be divorced by the pope , he was so much offended , that he ...
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... authority ; for it was absurd , since the scriptures were acknowledged to contain the laws of religion , that recourse should be had to glosses or the decrees of popes , rather than to them . " + Happy had it been , if the reformers of ...
... authority ; for it was absurd , since the scriptures were acknowledged to contain the laws of religion , that recourse should be had to glosses or the decrees of popes , rather than to them . " + Happy had it been , if the reformers of ...
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... authority , he should answer for it to God . " This is said to have struck the archbishop with much horror ; yet he suffered the sentence to be executed . * Besides those denominated anabaptists , there were also many others who ...
... authority , he should answer for it to God . " This is said to have struck the archbishop with much horror ; yet he suffered the sentence to be executed . * Besides those denominated anabaptists , there were also many others who ...
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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...
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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...