Politics and Religion: A Study in Scottish History from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 1

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J. Maclehose and sons, 1902 - Reformation
 

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Page 212 - No such thing," said Lethington. "Well, time will try," replied Knox; "but I will add, Take from us the freedom of assemblies, and take from us the evangel; for without assemblies how shall good order and unity in doctrine be kept?
Page 183 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Page 231 - ... plainly told the king and Council that they presumed over boldly in a constitute estate of a Christian Kirk, the kingdom of Jesus Christ — passing by...
Page 247 - Froude, xi. 494 Dr. Matthews, Dean of Durham, wrote thus to Burghley of the Earl of Bothwell, the maternal nephew of Queen Mary's third husband : "This nobleman hath a wonderful wit and as wonderful a -sarcasm, in his love of mirth and raillery, and in his f harming manners.
Page 113 - What I have been to my country, albeit this unthankful age will not know, yet the ages to come will be compelled to bear witness to the truth.
Page 195 - Afterward again at their meeting by night in the kirk of North Berwick, where the devil, clad in a black gown, with a black hat upon his head, preached unto a great number of them out of the pulpit, having light candles round about him.
Page 218 - James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a member.
Page 317 - ... a King neither superstitious nor inclinable that way, but one that seeks to have God rightly and truly worshipped by all his subjects. His person, were he not our Sovereign, gives them sufficient authority, being recommended by him ; for he knows the nature of things and the consequences of them, what is fit for a Church to have, and what not, better than we do all.
Page 102 - Knox in these matters as shortly I must, who upon Sunday last gave the cross and the candle such a wipe, that as wise and learned as himself wished him to have held his peace.
Page 104 - ... (Keith's History, ii. 117, 118). 'The Papists storm ; now they think there resteth nothing but the meeting of the two Queens to overthrow the mass and all' (Ibid. ii. 129). 'The Papists mistrust greatly the meeting ; the Protestants as greatly desire it. The preachers are more vehement than discreet or learned ' (Foreign Calendar, Elizabeth, iv.

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