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... Lethington was present , and , as usual , was in favour of temporising . He quoted Paul going up with the four Nazarites to the Temple and associating himself with them in their vows . Knox rather weakly drew a distinction between ...
... Lethington was present , and , as usual , was in favour of temporising . He quoted Paul going up with the four Nazarites to the Temple and associating himself with them in their vows . Knox rather weakly drew a distinction between ...
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... Lethington was vanquished , and confessed : “ I see per- fytelye , that our schiftis will serve nothing befoir God , seing that thei stand us in so small stead befoir man . " What is more to the purpose the Protestants henceforth made ...
... Lethington was vanquished , and confessed : “ I see per- fytelye , that our schiftis will serve nothing befoir God , seing that thei stand us in so small stead befoir man . " What is more to the purpose the Protestants henceforth made ...
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... Lethington mocked , and said with a sneer : " We mon now forget our selffis , and beir the barrow to build the housses of God , " indicating how little the nobles were influenced by religion in their efforts to reform the Church ...
... Lethington mocked , and said with a sneer : " We mon now forget our selffis , and beir the barrow to build the housses of God , " indicating how little the nobles were influenced by religion in their efforts to reform the Church ...
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... Lethington scoffed at it as a " devout imagination , " and it never received the consent either of the Estates or the Crown . It is well , how- ever , that our old men should dream such dreams , for they help posterity to see visions ...
... Lethington scoffed at it as a " devout imagination , " and it never received the consent either of the Estates or the Crown . It is well , how- ever , that our old men should dream such dreams , for they help posterity to see visions ...
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... Lethington led the one and Knox the other . The right of the Church to hold conventions was raised at the third General Assembly . Lethington main- tained that they must for such meetings get the consent of the Queen . This was ...
... Lethington led the one and Knox the other . The right of the Church to hold conventions was raised at the third General Assembly . Lethington main- tained that they must for such meetings get the consent of the Queen . This was ...
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Page 168 - Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him; But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die...
Page 193 - Use, who, deaf and blind, Groped for his old accustomed stone, Leaned on his staff, and wept to find His seat o'erthrown. Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, O'erhung with paly locks of gold, — " Why smite," he asked in sad surprise,
Page 171 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 161 - He is an instance to us how a man, by sincerity itself, becomes heroic : it is the grand gift he has. We find in Knox a good honest intellectual talent, no transcendent one ; — a narrow, inconsiderable man, as compared with Luther : but in heartfelt instinctive adherence to truth, in sincerity, as we say, he has no superior ; nay, one might say, What equal he has ? The heart of him is of the true Prophet cast. " He lies there," said the Earl of Morton at his grave, " who never feared the face of...
Page 192 - Essayed in vain her ghostly charm : Wealth shook within his gilded home With strange alarm. Fraud from his secret chambers fled Before the sunlight bursting in : Sloth drew her pillow o'er her head To drown the din. "Spare...
Page 40 - To promote a woman to beare rule, superioritie, dominion or empire above any realme, nation, or citie, is repugnant to nature, contumelie to God, a thing most contrarious to his reveled will and approved ordinance, and finallie it is the subversion of good order, of all equitie and justice.
Page 38 - Bible was not decisive, he thought the subject should be let alone, because " by custom and public consent and long practice, it has been established that realms and principalities may descend to females by hereditary right, and it would not be lawful to unsettle governments which are ordained by the peculiar providence of God.
Page 193 - Twas but the ruin of the bad, — The wasting of the wrong and ill ; Whate'er of good the old time had Was living still. Calm grew the brows of him I feared ; The frown which awed me passed away, And left behind a smile which cheered Like breaking day. The grain grew green on battle-plains, O'er swarded war-mounds grazed the cow ; The slave stood forging from his chains The spade and plough.
Page 150 - What I have been to my country, albeit this unthankful age will not know, yet the ages to come will be compelled to bear witness to the truth.