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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Page vii
... reign ; while himself sunk , into luxury and ease , became the contempt of all the powers of Europe . If king James had any principles of religion besides what he called KINGCRAFT , or dis- simulation , he changed them with the climate ...
... reign ; while himself sunk , into luxury and ease , became the contempt of all the powers of Europe . If king James had any principles of religion besides what he called KINGCRAFT , or dis- simulation , he changed them with the climate ...
Page viii
... that no part of modern history has been examined with so much critical exactness , as that part of the reign of King CHARLES * Heylin's Life of Laud , p . 506 . 1. which relates to the rise and progress of the viii AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
... that no part of modern history has been examined with so much critical exactness , as that part of the reign of King CHARLES * Heylin's Life of Laud , p . 506 . 1. which relates to the rise and progress of the viii AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
Page ix
... reign of Queen Elizabeth wrote with great eagerness for the divine right of their book of discipline , their posterity in the next reigns were more cool upon that head , declaring their satisfaction , if the present episco- pacy might ...
... reign of Queen Elizabeth wrote with great eagerness for the divine right of their book of discipline , their posterity in the next reigns were more cool upon that head , declaring their satisfaction , if the present episco- pacy might ...
Page x
... reign , nor will I be their advocate any longer than they have scripture , reason , and some degree of good manners on their side . If it shall at any time appear , that the body of them lived in contempt of all lawful authority , or ...
... reign , nor will I be their advocate any longer than they have scripture , reason , and some degree of good manners on their side . If it shall at any time appear , that the body of them lived in contempt of all lawful authority , or ...
Page xiv
... reign . Character of king James and of the court . A supplement , exhibiting an history of the Baptists , and of the proceedings of the synod of Dort . CHAPTER III . From the death of King James 1. to the dissolution of the third parlia ...
... reign . Character of king James and of the court . A supplement , exhibiting an history of the Baptists , and of the proceedings of the synod of Dort . CHAPTER III . From the death of King James 1. to the dissolution of the third parlia ...
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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.