Caritas Anglicana: Or, An Historical Inquiry Into Those Religious and Philanthropical Societies that Flourished in England Between the Years 1678 and 1740 |
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afterwards Anglican appears Archbishop associations Bishop Bishop of Carlisle bodies Bodl Bodleian Bodleian Library Bristol Canterbury charges charity schools Christian Church of England Churchmen clergy societies connexion constables contemporary conviction Cripplegate Daniel Defoe Defoe Dissenters Edinburgh eighteenth century endeavour evidence evil execution existence Fetter Lane Society Godw grand juries History Horneck Hutton Ibid immorality and profaneness James Hutton John Wesley justices later laws against immorality letter London and Westminster Lord magistrate meeting Methodist methods ministers morals Moravian movement National Reformation offences older Religious Societies organization Pamph pamphlet parish period persons prayer preach'd proclamation promoters prosecutions Puritan Queen Reformation of Manners Reforming Societies reign religion Religious Societies repealed rules says Scotland Sermon preached Societies for Reformation Societies in London spiritual statutes Sunday suppress swearing vice and immorality warrant Wesley's Whitefield William Nicolson Woodward Woodward's account
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Page 7 - most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing, ' of any of their rank I ever went among !' Nevertheless, let us arrogate to ourselves no exclusive praise in this particular.
Page 6 - With the restoration of the king, a spirit of extravagant joy spread over the nation, that brought on with it the throwing off the very professions of virtue and piety...
Page 85 - Wherefore till the nobility, gentry, justices of the peace, and clergy will be pleased either to reform their own manners and suppress their own immoralities, or find out some method and power impartially to punish themselves when guilty, we humbly crave leave to object against setting any poor man in the stocks, and sending them to the house of correction for immoralities, as the most unequal and unjust way of proceeding in the world.
Page 256 - VI. That in their meetings they use no Prayers but those of the Church, such as the Litany and Collects, and other prescribed Prayers ; but still they shall not use any that peculiarly belong to the Minister, as the Absolution.
Page 12 - To love one another. When reviled not to revile again. To speak evil of no man. To wrong no man. To pray, if possible, seven times a day. To keep close to the Church of England.
Page 5 - To be blind with them was a proper qualification of a spiritual guide, and to be booklearned, as they called it, and to be irreligious, were almost convertible...
Page x - ... it is but too frequent a complaint, that neither are men so good husbands, nor women so good wives, as they were before that accursed rebellion had made that fatal leading breach in the conjugal tie between the best of kings and the happiest of people.
Page 5 - Latin was with them a mortal crime, and Greek, instead of being owned for the language of the Holy Ghost, (as in the New Testament it is,) was looked upon like the sin against it ; so that, in a word, they had all the confusions of Babel amongst them without the diversity of tongues.
Page xi - Court, upon the fame of their incontinence, or other scandal in their lives, and were there prosecuted to their shame and punishment: and as the shame (which they called an insolent triumph upon their degree and quality, and levelling them with the common people) was never forgotten, but watched for revenge...
Page 5 - Those only were accounted like St. Paul who could work with their hands, and in a literal sense, drive the nail home, and be able to make a pulpit before they preached in it.