An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 3K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... quoted , followed him pretty closely , but not in his views of Edward , following Stow rather , who said , ' he was in this his youth a person of much toward- liness in virtue , learning , and all godly gifts 44 AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK .
... quoted , followed him pretty closely , but not in his views of Edward , following Stow rather , who said , ' he was in this his youth a person of much toward- liness in virtue , learning , and all godly gifts 44 AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK .
Page 45
... learning of the Reformation ; all of which was most satisfactory to the rectors of Hanwood and Fontesbury , who , as we have seen before , were converts pretty much to the opinions of Luther , notwithstanding their love for the old ...
... learning of the Reformation ; all of which was most satisfactory to the rectors of Hanwood and Fontesbury , who , as we have seen before , were converts pretty much to the opinions of Luther , notwithstanding their love for the old ...
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... learning would not , in general , be encouragers of the new . Then , again , they were very slenderly provided for , and having to depend upon the offerings of the people ( as is still the case in Roman Catholic countries ) , they were ...
... learning would not , in general , be encouragers of the new . Then , again , they were very slenderly provided for , and having to depend upon the offerings of the people ( as is still the case in Roman Catholic countries ) , they were ...
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... learning , and the piety of the theologians , would lead them into the wide fields of discussion and difference . ' And I only add from Strype : ' Bishop Ridley declared what estimation and reverence ought to be given to this holy ...
... learning , and the piety of the theologians , would lead them into the wide fields of discussion and difference . ' And I only add from Strype : ' Bishop Ridley declared what estimation and reverence ought to be given to this holy ...
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... learning , but they were almost isolated , and it can be scarcely said that their tenets were held by their neighbours , of them the people would ordinarily say , ' Our curate is naught , an ape - head , a dodipot , a lack - latine ...
... learning , but they were almost isolated , and it can be scarcely said that their tenets were held by their neighbours , of them the people would ordinarily say , ' Our curate is naught , an ape - head , a dodipot , a lack - latine ...
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Page 296 - We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation...
Page 237 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 86 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 235 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 352 - I do not know what I may appear to the World ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 76 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 111 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 323 - A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England.
Page 197 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...
Page 255 - ... a liberty to tender consciences, and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matter of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...