The History of the Puritans; Or, Protestant Nonconformists: From the Reformation in 1517 to the Revolution in 1688: Comprising an Account of Their Principles, Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church, Their Sufferings, and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines, Volume 4Baynes, 1822 - 502 pages |
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... clergy inveighed bitterly against it in their sermons , and refused to observe the days of humiliation appointed by authority for a blessing upon their arms . Mr. Baxter says , * that he wrote several letters to the soldiers , to ...
... clergy inveighed bitterly against it in their sermons , and refused to observe the days of humiliation appointed by authority for a blessing upon their arms . Mr. Baxter says , * that he wrote several letters to the soldiers , to ...
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... clergy chose rather to quit their prefer- ments in the church and university , than comply ; which made way for the promotion of several Independent divines , and among others , of Dr. Thomas Goodwin , one of the dis- senting brethren ...
... clergy chose rather to quit their prefer- ments in the church and university , than comply ; which made way for the promotion of several Independent divines , and among others , of Dr. Thomas Goodwin , one of the dis- senting brethren ...
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... clergy were ignorant and idle ; so that they had hardly a sermon from one quarter of a year- to another . The people had neither Bibles nor catechisms ; nor was there a sufficient maintenance for such as were ca- pable of instructing ...
... clergy were ignorant and idle ; so that they had hardly a sermon from one quarter of a year- to another . The people had neither Bibles nor catechisms ; nor was there a sufficient maintenance for such as were ca- pable of instructing ...
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... clergy ; some having shut themselves up in the castle , and others fled with their effects to Stirling , the general , to de- liver them from their fright , sent a trumpet to the castle , to assure the governor that the ministers might ...
... clergy ; some having shut themselves up in the castle , and others fled with their effects to Stirling , the general , to de- liver them from their fright , sent a trumpet to the castle , to assure the governor that the ministers might ...
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... clergy . Common bawds , or persons who keep lewd houses , are to be set in the pillory ; to be whipped , and marked in the forehead with the letter B , and then committed to the house of correction for three years for the first offence ...
... clergy . Common bawds , or persons who keep lewd houses , are to be set in the pillory ; to be whipped , and marked in the forehead with the letter B , and then committed to the house of correction for three years for the first offence ...
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