 | Dissenters - 1887 - 60 pages
...Noble Historian, that if Bishop Andrews or Overal had filled the Sec in Abbots room, they had quickly extinguished all that Fire in England, which had been kindled at Geneva, and that Infection would easily have been kept out, which could not 32 afterwards be so easily expelled... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 664 pages
...after the conference at Hampton Court; countenanced men of the greatest parts in learning, and disposed the clergy to a more solid course of study than they...kindled at Geneva, or if he had been succeeded by bishop Andrewes, bishop Overall, or any man who understood and loved the Church, that infection would easily... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 928 pages
...that Lord Clarendon, writing in his praise, expressed the opinion that " if Bancroft had lived, he would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva." In 1 605 he was sworn a member of the Privy Council. The same year he engaged in a contest with the... | |
 | Alexander Hugh Hore - 1891 - 578 pages
...Puritans, and their hatred of the Church was as strong as ever. Clarendon says that Bancroft disposed the clergy to a more solid course of study than they had been accustomed to ; and if I Ravis appointed Bishop of London in this year. b Collier's Church Hist., ii. 687. he had lived, would... | |
 | National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1896 - 526 pages
...Canterbury in 1604. Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1608. Clarendon says of him that he ' ' disposed the clergy to a more solid course " of study than...if he had " lived, would quickly have extinguished that fire in England " which had been kindled at Geneva." Purchased by the Trustees, June 189o. (945.)... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Church history - 1900 - 1022 pages
...Calvinian party, and very much subdued the unruly spirit of the Nonconformists. If he had lived he would have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva."1 The arbitrary method of the courts, however, at length so offended the spirit of justice... | |
 | George Gresley Perry - Great Britain - 1900 - 680 pages
...Calvinian party, and very much subdued the unruly spirit of the Nonconformists. If he had lived, he would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva." 3 § 30. " By the punishment of some few of the principals," says Heylin, " he struck such terror into... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1914 - 658 pages
...wilful churchmen." But whether, as Clarendon supposed, had Abbot's predecessor Bancroft survived, he "would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled in Geneva," Laud was not the man to extinguish it. If his ceremonial reforms were merely the revival... | |
 | Frank Walsh Brownlow - Drama - 1993 - 452 pages
...Clarendon wrote similarly: "[Bancroft] countenanced men of the greatest pans in learning, disposed the clergy to a more solid course of study than they had been accustomed to; and, if be had lived, would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva;... | |
 | Edward Carpenter - Religion - 1997 - 682 pages
...to the discipline and establishment of the Church';118 and Clarendon pays tribute to his encouraging 'the clergy to a more solid course of study than they had been accustomed to'.119 Bancroft himself had considerable literary ability and his library still adorns Lambeth. Like... | |
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Court; countenanced men of the greatest parts in learning, and disposed the clergy to a more solid course of study than they had been accustomed to ; and if he had lived would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at... 
