 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1825 - 634 pages
...his hat on all the while ; but nobody took notice of it to him at all." Aug. 4, (I. 308, 9,) seeing several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle, he remarks, " They go like lambs without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform or... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1831 - 564 pages
...neighbours." — Ibid. These things happened while Baxter resided at Acton. Pepys says, August 1664, " I saw several poor creatures carried by, by constables,...either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched ! " In 1665, several eminent protestants on the continent wished to open a correspondence with Baxter,... | |
 | Fashion - 1849 - 468 pages
...receive in all places of England, from the gentry and ordinary ptrsont of the parish. 8th Aug., 1664 : I saw several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They 50 like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wisr, ind... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1840 - 482 pages
...several poor creatures carried by by constables o r Go e d ln tL a yw cO VH Vent , icle , Thoygo^e lamb,, without any resistance. I would to God they would...either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched !" abridging the coercive power of the presbyteries, and of granting, on their own part, some indulgence... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1841 - 778 pages
...creatures carried by, by constables, ll»' being at a conventicle. They go like lambs without am ' resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be ' more wise, and not be catcfted.' An Indulgence was at length granted to all nonconformists, but the object, as above alluded... | |
 | John Stoughton - Puritans - 1848 - 356 pages
...streets as culprits. He writes in his Journal, under date 1664, " I saw several poor creatures carried by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance ; and would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched." Such were the consequences... | |
 | American essays - 1913 - 916 pages
...discourse and study, yet remains unappeased, and commands me herein.' On a later occasion, meeting 'several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle,' he wrote: "They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or... | |
 | Charles Stanford - Conversion - 1861 - 430 pages
...carried by constables for being at conventicles. They go like lambs, without any resistance. * Macaulay. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched!"* All the county gaols, like those in London, were soon filled with Dissenters, and hundreds of families... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - England - 1867 - 502 pages
...high-churchman whose heart was touched by these scenes, in his diary, under the year 166i, " carried by constables for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance; and would to God they would either conform or be more wise, and not be catched."J " Fiat justitia,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1876 - 564 pages
...and that most plainly and certainly. While we were ' talking came by several poor creatures carried by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go...and not be catched ! 8th. After dinner to hang up my fine pictures in my dining room, which makes it very pretty, and so my wife and I abroad to the King's... | |
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While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched... 
