Lambeth and the Vatican: Or, Anecdotes of the Church of Rome, of the Refomed Churches, and of Sects and Sectaries ...

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J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 - Anecdotes
 

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Page 31 - ... even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see, and as far as the keys of the holy church extend. I remit to you all...
Page 27 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Page 31 - May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon thee, and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy, passion. And I, by his authority, that of his blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of the most holy...
Page 106 - ... of darkness; so many magistrates, who persecuted the name of the Lord, liquefying in fiercer fires than they ever kindled against the Christians; so many sage philosophers blushing in red-hot flames with their deluded scholars; so many celebrated poets trembling before the tribunal, not of Minos, but of Christ; so many tragedians, more tuneful in the expression of their own sufferings; so many dancers...
Page 107 - Certainly, if the common law be so hard to be understood, it is far from being very common ; but if the Lord Coke in his Institutes...
Page 27 - God, if in the day of battle I forget thee, do thou not forget me!' " This, as ATTERBURY pronounced it with his usual grace and dignity, was a very gentle and polite reproof, and was immediately felt by the whole company. And the Duke of ORMONDE, who was the best bred man of his age, suddenly turned the discourse to another subject.
Page 6 - Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. 2 Father in heaven, O hear when we call ; Hear, for Christ's sake, who is Saviour of all; Feeble and fainting we trust in thy might, In doubting and darkness thy love be our light; Let us sleep on thy breast while the night taper burns, Wake in thy arms when morning returns.
Page 32 - Lo! the heavens are open ; if you enter not now, when will you enter? For twelve pence you may redeem the soul of your father out of purgatory; and are you so ungrateful, that you will not rescue your parent from torment ? If you had but one coat, you ought to strip yourself instantly, and sell it, in order to purchase such benefits, &c.
Page 32 - God, would be remitted and expiated by them, and the person be freed both from punishment and guilt. That this was the unspeakable gift of God, in order to reconcile men to himself. That the cross erected by the preachers of indulgences, was as efficacious as the cross of Christ itself. Lo!
Page 146 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen.

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