History of the Puritans in England

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Page 69 - ... under the form and figure of bread and wine, which we there presently do see and perceive by outward senses, is verily, substantially and really contained and comprehended the very selfsame body and blood of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, which was born of the Virgin Mary, and suffered upon the cross for our redemption...
Page 113 - An Act for [the] Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments...
Page 301 - Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.
Page 54 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life if it might be...
Page 33 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 38 - God's word was read, and what resort to places where the reading of it was. Every body that could bought the book, or busily read it, or got others to read it to them, if they could not themselves ; and divers more elderly people learned to read on purpose. And even little boys flocked among the rest to hear portions of the Holy Scripture read.
Page 54 - And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
Page 127 - ... him bring her the old book, wherein she was formerly wont to read. After sermon, whereas she was wont to get immediately on horseback, or into her chariot, she went straghit to the vestry, and applying herself to the Dean, thus she spoke to him : — Queen.
Page 223 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 39 - Namely, that when the King had allowed the Bible to be set forth to be read in all churches, immediately several poor men in the town of Chelmsford, in Essex, where his father lived, and he was born, bought the New Testament, and on Sundays sat reading of it in the lower end of the church. Many would flock about them to hear their reading ; and he among the rest, being then but fifteen years old, came every Sunday to hear the glad and sweet tidings of the Gospel.

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