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. C. and J. Rivington, 1818 - Christian biography |
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... amongst those of the same faith ; 3. And also suspecting the fidelity of the relations made by our ministers in foreign courts ; 4. And of all our travellers who stuck to , and embraced the religion established by law . But then what ...
... amongst those of the same faith ; 3. And also suspecting the fidelity of the relations made by our ministers in foreign courts ; 4. And of all our travellers who stuck to , and embraced the religion established by law . But then what ...
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... amongst themselves , occasioned by the Puritanical controversy , which now began to turn aside the heads and hearts of so great a portion of the best men of the nation , from real and unfeigned religion , to the agitation of the merest ...
... amongst themselves , occasioned by the Puritanical controversy , which now began to turn aside the heads and hearts of so great a portion of the best men of the nation , from real and unfeigned religion , to the agitation of the merest ...
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... amongst the rest Anthony Parkhurst ' was committed to his care by Mr. John Parkhurst his tutor , which was a great argument of his great worth and industry . Being thus imployed , he was chosen reader of humanity and rhetorick of his ...
... amongst the rest Anthony Parkhurst ' was committed to his care by Mr. John Parkhurst his tutor , which was a great argument of his great worth and industry . Being thus imployed , he was chosen reader of humanity and rhetorick of his ...
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... amongst others , one Mr. Curtop , a fellow of the same Col- lege , afterwards Canon of Christ - Church , allowed him forty shillings a year , which was a considerable sum in those days ; and one Mr. Chambers , who was entrusted with ...
... amongst others , one Mr. Curtop , a fellow of the same Col- lege , afterwards Canon of Christ - Church , allowed him forty shillings a year , which was a considerable sum in those days ; and one Mr. Chambers , who was entrusted with ...
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... amongst all his enemies , noné sought his ruine more eagerly than Dr. Martial , Dean of Christ - Church , who had changed his religion now twice alreadie ; and did afterwards twice or thrice more in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth : he ...
... amongst all his enemies , noné sought his ruine more eagerly than Dr. Martial , Dean of Christ - Church , who had changed his religion now twice alreadie ; and did afterwards twice or thrice more in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth : he ...
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afterwards amongst answer Antichrist Archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury Bernard Gilpin betwixt Bishop Jewel Bishop of London Bishop of Worcester blessed called cause Christ Christian Church of England Church of Rome clergy College commanded conscience dear death desire discourse divers divine Doctor Donne doth Earl ecclesiastical faith father favour gave GEORGE HERBERT Gilpin give grace hand happy hath heart heaven holy honour John JOHN DONNE John Jewel John Whitgift King labour learned letter lived London Lord Majesty Master Cartwright mercy ministers never occasion opinion Oxford Papists piety poor Popish pray prayers preach printed Queen reader reason Reformation religion reverend Richard Hooker Sacrament sacred Saint saith Scripture sent sermon servant shew soul Strype's thee thereof things thou thought tion took Transubstantiation Travers truth unto wherein Whitgift wife words writ write
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Page 450 - Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? VOL. iv. GG Wilt Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still though still I do deplore? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 450 - ... their door? Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two — but wallowed in a score ? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done, For I have more. "I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page 427 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms. This I have seen since I saw you.
Page 467 - These being got, then without delay a choice painter was got to be in readiness to draw his picture, which was taken as followeth :—Several charcoal fires being first made in his large study, he brought with him into that place his winding-sheet in his hand, and having put off all his clothes, had this sheet put on him, and so tied with knots at his head and feet, and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted, to be shrouded and put into their coffin or grave.
Page 282 - I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near ; and though I have by His grace loved Him in my youth, and feared Him in...
Page 430 - Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Page 455 - Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
Page 195 - I charge you to deliver to your mother and tell her I send her a bishop's benediction with it, and beg the continuance of her prayers for me. And if you bring my horse back to me, I will give you ten groats more, to carry you on foot to the college : and so God bless you, good Richard.
Page 430 - But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love —Whose soul is sense— cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. But we by a love so...
Page 424 - Therefore I would fain do something but that I cannot tell what is no wonder. For to choose is to do; but to be no part of any body is to be nothing.