 | John Bayly Somers Carwithen - 1849 - 632 pages
...deemed unbiassed. His character of the Assembly is marked by his usual vigour and roughness. " The most of them were such as had preached, and cried down...of zeal, the avarice and pluralities of Bishops and Prelates, — that one cure of souls was a full employment for one spiritual pastor, how able soever,... | |
 | John [prose] Milton - 1853 - 540 pages
...of divines were called, neither chosen by any rule or custom ecclesiastical, nor emment for either piety or knowledge above others left out; only as...of zeal, the avarice and pluralities of bishops and prelates ; that one cure of souls was a full employment for one spiritual pastor how able soever, if... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 540 pages
...of divines were called, neither chosen by any rule or custom ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others left out; only as...of zeal, the avarice and pluralities of bishops and prelates ; that one cure of souls was a full employment for one spiritual pastor how able soever, if... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 544 pages
...of divines were called, neither chosen by any rule or custom ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others left out; only as...of zeal, the avarice and pluralities of bishops and prelates ; that one cure of souls was a full employment for one spiritual pastor how able soever, if... | |
 | Robert Cox - Freedom of religion - 1853 - 744 pages
...chosen by any rule or custom ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others loft out ; only as each member of Parliament in his private fancy thought fit, so elected one by one."f Most of them, nevertheless, appear to have fully or partially deserved the eulogium which Baxter... | |
 | John Buxton, Marsden - Great Britain - 1854 - 494 pages
...certain number of divines were called, neither chosen by any rule ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others left out, only as each member of parliament thought fit in his private fancy." So Milton writes ; and lord Clarendon to the same purpose. " If,"... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 512 pages
...of divines were called, neither chosen by any rule or custom ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others left out ; only as...of zeal the avarice and pluralities of bishops and prelates ; that one cure of souls was a full employment for one spiritual pastor, how able soever,... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Great Britain - 1856 - 574 pages
...or custom ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others left out ; only M each member of Parliament, in his private fancy, thought...one by one. The most part of them were such as had cried down, with great shew of zeal, the avarice and pluralities of Bishops and Prelates, that one... | |
 | Religion - 1858 - 806 pages
...for cither piety or knowledge above others left out, only as each member of Parliament or his prrvute fancy thought fit, so elected one by one. The most...were such as had preached and cried down, with great show of zeal, the avarice and pluralities cf bishops and prelates; that one cure of souls was a full... | |
 | 1858 - 812 pages
...of divines were called, neither chosen by any rule or custom ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others left out, only as each member of Parliament or his prrvato fancy thought fit, so elected one by one. The most part of them were such as had preached... | |
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And if the state were in this plight, religion was not in much better ; to reform which, a certain number of divines were called, neither chosen by any rule or custom ecclesiastical, nor eminent for either piety or knowledge above others left out ; only... 
