Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Volume 6University Press, 1833 - Great Britain |
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... clergy : high title came to him by one man's misfortune , and his great estate by another's ; ( for he was born to neither , but elated with both to a ridiculousness . ) After having absented for some time , he offered himself at the ...
... clergy : high title came to him by one man's misfortune , and his great estate by another's ; ( for he was born to neither , but elated with both to a ridiculousness . ) After having absented for some time , he offered himself at the ...
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... clergy , who had the greatest influence , were generally averse to the emperor , for having brought an army of heretics amongst them , and did not think , if he carried his point , that they were likely to be under a lasting establish ...
... clergy , who had the greatest influence , were generally averse to the emperor , for having brought an army of heretics amongst them , and did not think , if he carried his point , that they were likely to be under a lasting establish ...
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... clergy should have done nothing for the good of the church ; so it be- ing apparent , that in the suburbs of London there were about 200,000 people more than could possibly worship God in the churches built there , upon a message to ...
... clergy should have done nothing for the good of the church ; so it be- ing apparent , that in the suburbs of London there were about 200,000 people more than could possibly worship God in the churches built there , upon a message to ...
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... clergy of a province to do nothing without the consent of the metropolitan ; but it was a thing new and unheard of , to limit the convocation to any of their own body who had no deputation from the archbishop . So a report of this being ...
... clergy of a province to do nothing without the consent of the metropolitan ; but it was a thing new and unheard of , to limit the convocation to any of their own body who had no deputation from the archbishop . So a report of this being ...
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... clergy of the province , to be judged by the archbishop of York and his three suffragan bishops ? These difficulties appear- ing to be so great , the bishops resolved to begin with that in which they had , by the queen's license , an ...
... clergy of the province , to be judged by the archbishop of York and his three suffragan bishops ? These difficulties appear- ing to be so great , the bishops resolved to begin with that in which they had , by the queen's license , an ...
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Page 243 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Page 286 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 242 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good ; seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 242 - Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good ; Seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open unto their cry.
Page 354 - truth ; or the true state of the primitive church, by an " humble moderator,
Page 312 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 15 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Page 23 - An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions. By PG TAIT, MA, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh ; formerly Fellow of St Peter's College, Cambridge. Second...
Page 240 - I understand somewhat more than the receiving some doctrines, though ever so true, or the professing them, and engaging to support them, not without zeal and eagerness. What signify the best doctrines, if men do not live suitably to them ; if they have not a due influence upon their thoughts, their principles, and their lives ? Men of bad lives, with sound opinions, are selfcondemned, and lie under a highly aggravated guilt...
Page 94 - It was said that the queen could not send a message to any one House to adjourn, when the like message was not sent to both Houses. The pleasure of the prince in convening, dissolving, proroguing or ordering the adjournment of Parliaments was always directed to both Houses, but never to any one House without the same intimation was made at the same time to the other.