Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England, During Queen Elizabeth's Happy Reign: pt. 1 Annals of the reformation of religion, and affairs of the church in this kingdom of England; From the twelfth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth to the twenty-third

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At the Clarendon Press, 1824 - England
 

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Page 38 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page 501 - IIII, suisque successoribus, canonice intrantibus, non ero in consilio aut consensu vel facto ut vitam perdant aut membrum, seu capiantur mala captione, consilium vero quod mihi credituri sunt per se aut nuncios seu literas ad eorum damnum, me sciente, nemini pandam, papatum Romanum...
Page 642 - Let those in whom you find trust, and to whom you have committed trust in your weighty affairs, be held up in the eyes of your subjects. Lastly, doing as you do, you shall be as you be, the example of princes, the ornament of this age, the comfort of the afflicted, the delight of your people, the most excellent fruit of your progenitors, and the perfect mirror of your posterity...
Page 214 - A brief discourse against the outward apparel and ministering garments of the popish church.
Page 631 - ... diminish the attempt, especially in your judgment, who being able to discern lively into the nature of the thing done, it were folly to hope, by laying on better colours, to make it more acceptable. Therefore, carrying no other olive branch of intercession, than the laying of myself at your feet; nor no other insinuation, either for attention or pardon, but the true vowed sacrifice of unfeigned love...
Page 142 - and learned Pastors, the Devil and corrupt patrons have ' " taken such order, that much of that hope is cut off. For Aono 1584." patrons nowadays search not the Universities for a " most fit Pastor, but they post up and down the country " for a most gainful chapman. He that hath the biggest " purse to pay largely, not he that hath the best gifts to " preach learnedly, is presented.
Page 634 - ... his will to be as full of light ambition as is possible ; besides the French disposition, and his own education ; his inconstant temper against his brother; his thrusting himself into the Low Country matters ; his sometimes seeking the King of Spain's daughter ; sometimes your Majesty ; are evident testimonies of his being carried away with every wind of hope...
Page 631 - MOST FEARED AND BELOVED, MOST SWEET AND GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN —To seek out excuses of this my boldness, and to arm the acknowledging of a fault with reasons for it, might better show I knew I did amiss, than any way diminish the attempt, especially in your judgment; who being able to discern lively into the nature of the thing done, it were folly to hope, by laying on better colours, to make it more acceptable.
Page 208 - ... this marvellous light of his gospel, and mercifully to regard us after so horrible backsliding and falling away from Christ to Antichrist, from light to darkness, from the living God to dumb and dead idols, and that after so cruel murder of God's saints, as...
Page 562 - I suppose you have already received, and withal, you shall have a taste to judge how well she liketh your loving usage. 'Now to advise you, my Lord, I wish you from the bottom of my heart to shake off the yoke of your stubbornness against her Majesty's desires, to lay aside your stiffnecked determination and yield yourself to her known clemency. She is our God on earth. If there be perfection in flesh and blood, undoubtedly it is in her Majesty ; for she is slow to revenge and ready to forgive. And...

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