The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists: With an Account of Their Principles; Their Attempts for a Further Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines, Volume 2Charles Ewer, 1817 - Great Britain |
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... judges . Several of the members dissatisfied . Their proceedings . Remarks . Abstract of the canons ; of the kingly power : for observing the king's inauguration day ; against popery ; against socinianism ; against separatists ; to ...
... judges . Several of the members dissatisfied . Their proceedings . Remarks . Abstract of the canons ; of the kingly power : for observing the king's inauguration day ; against popery ; against socinianism ; against separatists ; to ...
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... judge , how much superior this wise monarch was in the knowledge of antiquity , or the art of syllogism , to Dr. Raynolds , who was the oracle of his time for ac- qnaintance with ecclesiastical history , councils and fa- thers , and had ...
... judge , how much superior this wise monarch was in the knowledge of antiquity , or the art of syllogism , to Dr. Raynolds , who was the oracle of his time for ac- qnaintance with ecclesiastical history , councils and fa- thers , and had ...
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... judge and party . " No wonder , therefore , if Dr. Raynolds fell below himself , and lost some part of his esteem with the puritans , being overawed by the place and company , and the arbitrary dictates of his sovereign opponent . The ...
... judge and party . " No wonder , therefore , if Dr. Raynolds fell below himself , and lost some part of his esteem with the puritans , being overawed by the place and company , and the arbitrary dictates of his sovereign opponent . The ...
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... judges . Most of those who approached the king's person labored to inspire him with the design of making himself absolute ; or rather to confirm him in that resolution . * The bishops were of this number ; and from this time there has ...
... judges . Most of those who approached the king's person labored to inspire him with the design of making himself absolute ; or rather to confirm him in that resolution . * The bishops were of this number ; and from this time there has ...
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... judge ecclesiastical hath proceeded judicially against ' obstinate and factious persons , for not observing the rites and ceremonies of the church , or for contempt of public ' prayer , no judge ad quem shall admit , CHAP . 1 . 59 OF ...
... judge ecclesiastical hath proceeded judicially against ' obstinate and factious persons , for not observing the rites and ceremonies of the church , or for contempt of public ' prayer , no judge ad quem shall admit , CHAP . 1 . 59 OF ...
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Page 143 - God has revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it. And the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God who yet saw not all things. This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Page 142 - ... I charge you, before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no further than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy Word.
Page 214 - The Humble Request of His Majesty's Loyall Subjects, the Governor and the Company late gone for New England; to the rest of their Brethren in and of the Church of England...
Page 340 - And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever.
Page 422 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Page 392 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
Page 123 - As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or to say that a king cannot do this or that.
Page 531 - We do engage unto you solemnly the word of a king, that the security of all and every one of you from violence is, and ever shall be, as much our care, as the preservation of us, and our children...
Page 352 - And we do here declare that it is far from our purpose or desire to let loose the golden reins of discipline and government in the Church, to leave private persons or particular congregations to take up what form of Divine Service they please, for we hold it requisite that there should be throughout the whole realm a conformity to that order which the laws enjoin according to the Word of God.
Page 260 - ... soul that he is not a rational soul ; he is fit to live in dens with such beasts of prey as wolves and tigers like himself; therefore I do condemn him to perpetual imprisonment as those monsters that are no longer fit to live among men, nor see light.