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... magistrate ? Yea , so presumptuously as to question and menace officers that represent the king's person , for using their authority against drunken priests ? " Yet , he continues , " they entreat us that we would not be weary of those ...
... magistrate ? Yea , so presumptuously as to question and menace officers that represent the king's person , for using their authority against drunken priests ? " Yet , he continues , " they entreat us that we would not be weary of those ...
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... magistrate , entrusted with a certain office by the people , and performing the duties of that office blamelessly , is to be seized and put to death ? Had such been his doctrine , most thick - sighted and doltish were those sovereign ...
... magistrate , entrusted with a certain office by the people , and performing the duties of that office blamelessly , is to be seized and put to death ? Had such been his doctrine , most thick - sighted and doltish were those sovereign ...
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... Magistrate , in any of the said Cities , Borroughs , or Towns Incor- porate , where such person or persons do live ... Magistrates , Justices of the Peace and Chancellors respectively , that they cause the said Books which shall be so ...
... Magistrate , in any of the said Cities , Borroughs , or Towns Incor- porate , where such person or persons do live ... Magistrates , Justices of the Peace and Chancellors respectively , that they cause the said Books which shall be so ...
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... magistracy to be done to the king , should be said by you to have been done " by a wicked conspiracy of sacrilegious persons . " Have you the impudence , you rogue , to talk at this rate of the acts and decrees of the chief magistrates ...
... magistracy to be done to the king , should be said by you to have been done " by a wicked conspiracy of sacrilegious persons . " Have you the impudence , you rogue , to talk at this rate of the acts and decrees of the chief magistrates ...
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... magistrates for admitting such “ common sewer of all sorts of sects . " Why should they not ? It belongs to the church to cast them out of the communion of the faithful ; not to the magistrate to banish them the country , provided they ...
... magistrates for admitting such “ common sewer of all sorts of sects . " Why should they not ? It belongs to the church to cast them out of the communion of the faithful ; not to the magistrate to banish them the country , provided they ...
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Page 45 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 463 - Men would be angels, angels would be gods, Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel...
Page xiii - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Page 478 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 53 - Keep therefore and do them ; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 69 - They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Page 66 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man, for the Lord's sake : whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and the praise of them that do well.
Page ix - ... sacred Bible sought out of the dusty corners, where profane falsehood and neglect had thrown it, the schools opened, divine and human learning raked out of the embers of forgotten tongues, the princes and cities trooping apace to the new-erected banner of salvation ; the martyrs, with the unresistible might of weakness, shaking the powers of darkness, and scorning the fiery rage of the old red dragon.
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Page 58 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek.