Life of Bishop Bedell by His Soneditor at the University Press and sold, 1871 - 130 pages |
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Page 75 - If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Page 123 - Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries, and avenge Me of Mine enemies : and I will turn My hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin...
Page 64 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice 1 might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 82 - Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Page 2 - 'twas easy to perceive to what course of life God had destinated and his own inclinations led him; which was the ministry. His entrance into Holy Orders was before he had left the University: concerning which he would complain of the greedy gaping for money by the officers and servants of the Bishop, without heeding so much the sufficiency or insufficiency of the man, as of money. Yet his Orders he esteemed nevertheless religiously, tho' cumbred with some faults in the men that conferr'd them.
Page 3 - His voice was but low; his action little: but the gravity of his aspect very great, and the reverence of his behaviour such as was more affecting to the hearers than the greater eloquence and more pompous pronunciation of others.
Page 1 - I am bound in all conscience and truth (so far as your majesty will be pleased to accept my poor judgment} to affirm of him, that I think hardly a fitter man for that charge could have been propounded unto your majesty in your whole kingdom, for singular erudition and piety, conformity to the rites of the church and zeal to advance the cause of God ; wherein his travails abroad were not obscure in the time of the excommunication of the Venetians.
Page 24 - ... discourse surmounted all, which was of such influence that it gave a law to the company, and held them (as it were) under a kind of discipline; which that he might somewhat relax and yet not warp from his own principles, he would 'retire from them to his study with some grave item, leaving them to enjoy themselves. If they were ministers or scholars he would tarry longer, but so as he would be sure their discourse should be profitable. And here it cannot be omitted what an admirable gift and...
Page 2 - ... inwardest thoughts of his heart ; from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divinity, both scholastical and positive, than from any that he had ever practised...
Page 114 - ... for our bishop his desk, and some other books and papers at several times, as he saw his best opportunity. And among the rest (as Dr Bernard in his character of this bishop hath published), by the care of this Mr Sheridon, the bishop's MS.