Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England; from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 4F. & J. Rivington, 1853 - Christian biography |
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... father died before Mr. Herbert's retirement to Dantsey ; yet some friends to both parties procured their meeting , at which time a mutual affection entered into both their hearts , as a conqueror enters into a surprised city ; and love ...
... father died before Mr. Herbert's retirement to Dantsey ; yet some friends to both parties procured their meeting , at which time a mutual affection entered into both their hearts , as a conqueror enters into a surprised city ; and love ...
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... father's house , as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners ; for you are to know , that a priest's wife can challenge no precedence or place , but that which she purchases by her obliging humility ; and , I am sure ...
... father's house , as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners ; for you are to know , that a priest's wife can challenge no precedence or place , but that which she purchases by her obliging humility ; and , I am sure ...
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... Father , and to the Son , and to the Holy Ghost ; and fit to proceed to a further service of our God , in the collects , and psalms , and lauds that follow in the service . And as to these psalms and lauds , he proceeded to inform them ...
... Father , and to the Son , and to the Holy Ghost ; and fit to proceed to a further service of our God , in the collects , and psalms , and lauds that follow in the service . And as to these psalms and lauds , he proceeded to inform them ...
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... fathers groaned under ; namely , from the legal sacrifices , and from the many ceremonies of the Levitical law ; freed from ... Father : and therefore they ought daily to express their public gratulations , and say daily with Zacharias ...
... fathers groaned under ; namely , from the legal sacrifices , and from the many ceremonies of the Levitical law ; freed from ... Father : and therefore they ought daily to express their public gratulations , and say daily with Zacharias ...
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... Father whiche art in heaven , & c . " Latimer's Sermons , fol . 100 , edit . 1584 . Calvin " ever concluded his prayer before or after sermon with repeating of the Creed and Lord's Prayer , conceiving it to be of good use to have these ...
... Father whiche art in heaven , & c . " Latimer's Sermons , fol . 100 , edit . 1584 . Calvin " ever concluded his prayer before or after sermon with repeating of the Creed and Lord's Prayer , conceiving it to be of good use to have these ...
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Page 565 - THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: And merciful men are taken away, none considering That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 313 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page 452 - Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Page 228 - Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Page 519 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 50 - I see that as my father and generation hath done before me, so I also shall now suddenly (with Job) make my bed also in the dark ; and I praise God I am prepared for it ; and I praise him, that I am not to learn patience, now I stand in such need of it ; and that I have practised mortification, and endeavoured to die daily, that I might not die eternally...
Page 291 - Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated: whence it is. that old Jacob numbers his life by days ; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, ' to number ' not his years, but
Page 90 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 8 - ... and so much under her own eye, as to see and converse with him daily: but she managed this power over him without any such rigid sourness as might make her company a torment to her child; but with such a sweetness and compliance with the recreations and pleasures of youth, as did incline him willingly to spend much of his time in the company of his dear and careful mother; which was to her great content...
Page 396 - It is therefore fitting that you should by all means glorify Jesus Christ who hath glorified you ; that by a uniform obedience ye may be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment...