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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... hand . London , printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell , at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church - Yard . 1685 . " - This title will sufficiently explain the opening , and the date will illustrate several other parts of the insuing ...
... hand . London , printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell , at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church - Yard . 1685 . " - This title will sufficiently explain the opening , and the date will illustrate several other parts of the insuing ...
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... hand to kiss , to the Vice - Chancellor , Doctors and Masters , while Humfrey was receiving that honour , the Queen said , " Dr. Humfrey methinks this Gown and Habit becomes you very well and I marvel you are so straight - laced in this ...
... hand to kiss , to the Vice - Chancellor , Doctors and Masters , while Humfrey was receiving that honour , the Queen said , " Dr. Humfrey methinks this Gown and Habit becomes you very well and I marvel you are so straight - laced in this ...
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... hands a copy of a Bull lately sent into this realme by the Bishop of Rome . I read it , and weighed it thorowly , and found it to be a matter of great blas- phemy against God , and a practise to work much unquietnesse , sedition and ...
... hands a copy of a Bull lately sent into this realme by the Bishop of Rome . I read it , and weighed it thorowly , and found it to be a matter of great blas- phemy against God , and a practise to work much unquietnesse , sedition and ...
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... hands to Heaven by humble and fervent prayers , and implore the assistance of the most Holy God , for her safety and protection against all her ene- mies . Let the virtue , piety , and holiness of your lives , assure the world that you ...
... hands to Heaven by humble and fervent prayers , and implore the assistance of the most Holy God , for her safety and protection against all her ene- mies . Let the virtue , piety , and holiness of your lives , assure the world that you ...
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... hand , and saying , " Have you a mind to see how well I can write ? " subscribed his name hastily , and with great reluctance . But this no way mitigated the rage of his ene- mies against him . They knew his great love to , and ...
... hand , and saying , " Have you a mind to see how well I can write ? " subscribed his name hastily , and with great reluctance . But this no way mitigated the rage of his ene- mies against him . They knew his great love to , and ...
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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.