General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volume 7G. G. and J. Robinson, 1808 - Biography |
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... churches . During the following year , finding that the university of Paris had passed a sen- tence of condemnation on ... church - communion and fraternal concord between the contending parties . He thought that this happy concord might ...
... churches . During the following year , finding that the university of Paris had passed a sen- tence of condemnation on ... church - communion and fraternal concord between the contending parties . He thought that this happy concord might ...
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... church , under the title of " a defence of the confession of Augsburg . " Recourse was now had to the expedient of conferences between learned men selected from both parties , which many who were zealous for the peace and tranquillity ...
... church , under the title of " a defence of the confession of Augsburg . " Recourse was now had to the expedient of conferences between learned men selected from both parties , which many who were zealous for the peace and tranquillity ...
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... church , and that the external communion of the contending parties might be preserved uninterrupted and entire . This spirit of mildness and charity carried perhaps too far , led him sometimes to make concessions that were neither ...
... church , and that the external communion of the contending parties might be preserved uninterrupted and entire . This spirit of mildness and charity carried perhaps too far , led him sometimes to make concessions that were neither ...
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... church those who had so fallen from the faith , before their penitential trial was entirely finished . Besides ... church in the doctrine of transubstantiation . With the same design father Simon appeals to it , when undertaking to ...
... church those who had so fallen from the faith , before their penitential trial was entirely finished . Besides ... church in the doctrine of transubstantiation . With the same design father Simon appeals to it , when undertaking to ...
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... church ; and after he had been ordained priest , he preached the doctrines of popery with great zeal for some time ; first at a vil- lage belonging to his father , called Pinnin- gum , and afterwards at the place of his birth . With all ...
... church ; and after he had been ordained priest , he preached the doctrines of popery with great zeal for some time ; first at a vil- lage belonging to his father , called Pinnin- gum , and afterwards at the place of his birth . With all ...
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Page 308 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 107 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 379 - ... a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
Page 379 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page 379 - And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
Page 329 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 485 - FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
Page 379 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue ; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.
Page 329 - It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it ; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered.
Page 329 - Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.