Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury: Middle-age period

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R. Bentley, 1869 - Bishops

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Page 83 - Repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed: and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye (Ezek., 18: 27-32).
Page 333 - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed : 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Page 143 - Son of God, clad in our flesh, hath made satisfaction for us to the justice of the Eternal Father. He who believes this, enters into the kingdom of God ; he enjoys the universal pardon ; from a carnal, he becomes a spiritual creature ; from a child of wrath, a child of grace; he lives in a sweet peace of conscience.
Page 277 - ... without scruple of conscience, enjoy them without impeachment or trouble, by pretence of any general council, canons, or ecclesiastical laws, and clear from all dangers of the censures of the church.
Page 217 - ... and adoreth. In whom it is to be thought that God hath chosen a special place of habitation, such is his conversation, adorned with infinite godly qualities, above the ordinary...
Page 267 - ... the confession of Christ's faith ; namely, in the breast of the queen's excellency, of whom, to speak without adulation, the saying of the prophet may be verified, " Ecce quasi derelicta!" And see how miraculously God of his goodness preserved her highness, contrary to the expectation of man, that when numbers conspired against her, and policies were devised to disinherit her, and armed power prepared to destroy her; yet she, being a virgin helpless, naked, and unarmed, prevailed, and had the...
Page 83 - ... if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people ; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning ; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
Page 138 - Many are of opinion that there is scarcely a book of this age, or at least in the Italian language, so sweet, so pious, so simple, so well fitted to instruct the ignorant and weak, especially in the doctrine of justification.
Page 137 - CHRIST'S DEATH : probably written by AONIO PALEARIO : reprinted in Facsimile from the Italian Edition of 1543; together with a French Translation printed in 1551 ; from Copies in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge. To which is added, an English Version made in 1548, by EDWARD COURTENAY, Earl of Devonshire, now first edited from a MS.
Page 268 - God, he hath not obtained the end. I can well compare him to David, which, though he were a man elect of God, yet for that he was contaminate with blood and wars, he could not build the temple of Jerusalem, but left the finishing thereof to Solomon, who was Rex pacificus.

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