The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England;: From the Earliest Times, to the Restoration of King Charles II. Collected from the Records, ...

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J. and R. Tonson, and A. Millar, in the Strand; and W. Sandby, in Fleet-Street., 1762

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Page 216 - Eighth, by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, in earth the Supreme Head ; and that the said style, &c.
Page 425 - Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you ; do this in remembrance of me.
Page 291 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Page 76 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 184 - And further, we be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic...
Page 205 - I said before, be in charity one with another, like brother and brother; love, dread, and serve God (to the which I, as your supreme head, and sovereign lord, exhort and require you...
Page 122 - ... by course of inheritance according to their ages, as the crown of England hath been accustomed and ought to go, in case where there be heirs female of the same : and in default of issue female, then to the king's right heirs for ever.
Page 88 - Holy Church, or any other thing or things necessary for the health of the soul of mankind, as they heretofore at any time or times have been...
Page 58 - Rochester or his adherents did hold this language, it would less trouble me. But since so many religious and different sects, now conspicuous in the whole world, do not only vindicate unto themselves the name of the true church, but labour betwixt invitations and threats for nothing more than to make us resign our faith to a simple obedience ; I shall crave leave to propose what I think fit in this case for us laick and secular persons to do.
Page 44 - And it is commonly reported that the occasion thereof is, because the said lord Cardinal hath taken such impositions of the rulers of the said houses, as well for his favour in making of abbots and priors as for his visitation by his authority lega* Calendar, iv., No.

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